Gary Hall Jr.

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So, I had the pleasure to hang out with him for quite a while today. I was asked to take a few publicity photos of him, for his dad, Gary Hall Sr. and Rowdy Gaines. I was very pleasantly surprised, Jr. is a very nice and very personable guy. I thought perhaps he'd have a hot shot attitude... Not even close. As I was asking him to make couple poses for the camera, for the publicity, he and he did... and we chuckled about them, he made a comment something to the effect of, about I dunno why people take some of that so negatively, and think I'm a total jerk :( He seemed pretty genuinely bummed out. I was thinking how he is always being asked to pose and do publicity things, and do some showing off or what not, then it turns around and ends up giving him a bad rep. Later on introduced him to a massage therapist friend of mine who works on a lot of pro athletes, to work on him and they can compare notes, and Gary's first response was, oh, that would be so nice but, aren't there people here that need it a lot more then I do, they'll say, what does he need *that for*.... he was all embarrassed, and rather humble about it. He's the kind of a guy that wouldn't squish a bug! I mean literally. As we were sitting and chatting, a June bug landed, he reached for it, and I reacted, oh, no, don't hurt it! Before he had a chance to respond, I realized that he proceeded to check it out and started petting it with one finger, saying hi little guy...
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    Gary broke the USMS and World record in the 50 m fly for the 30-34 age group today. I was lucky to be standing next to the lane he was in, so got a great view. It didn't even look like he was working at all and went a 24.91. Since I'm processing all the records for the meet, I made a copy of the record application and asked him to autograph it, which he graciously did, after expressing surprise and reading over the form. This is his first Masters World Record (he set USMS short course yards records at Indy, but there are no SCY world records). Then Connie took a picture of Gary and me.
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    Gary broke the USMS and World record in the 50 m fly for the 30-34 age group today. I was lucky to be standing next to the lane he was in, so got a great view. It didn't even look like he was working at all and went a 24.91. Since I'm processing all the records for the meet, I made a copy of the record application and asked him to autograph it, which he graciously did, after expressing surprise and reading over the form. This is his first Masters World Record (he set USMS short course yards records at Indy, but there are no SCY world records). Then Connie took a picture of Gary and me.
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