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					Originally Posted by Fugee  Hello?  Ian Thorpe and tons of other Aussie swimmers off the top of my head.
 I think at that elite level, they have competitions throughout the year and these days many of them train elsewhere so it's not a geographic/natural cycle issue.
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 Plus anyone training on anything near the olympic level is training year-round.  It's not like a kid on the US Hockey Development Team is taking the summers off to learn sailing.