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Competitive swimming is booming in Puerto Rico and Jesse Vassallo is the reason...
...Vassallo, now residing in Miami with his mother and two younger brothers, began his swimming career with Club Deportivo de Ponce in his native Puerto Rico, where he lived until he was 11. Now, he is the most successful swimmer ever from that Caribbean island...
...faster than Soviet Sergei Fesenko did in winning the gold medal. In both the 200 backstroke and 100 breaststroke, two Americans finished under the Moscow times. The performances were remark able considering that many of the swimmers eased up on their training when the boycott was announced. Jesse Vassallo, 18, of Mission Viejo, Calif, quit altogether for six weeks but managed to outclock his Moscow counterpart in the 400 individual medley...
...Vassallo has been swimming most of her life, and hails from a family of sibling swimmers...
Like Susan Vassallo, McNamara comes from a big aquatic family. "There are eleven kids in my family--all swimmers. I've been swimming since I was six," she noted drily...