Many of Anthony Ervin's competitors were just learning to read and write the last time he won a gold medal, at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, before he abruptly retired - but they know how to spell his name now. On Sunday, Ervin anchored the qualifying leg that put the U.S. in position to win gold in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, earning him his first medal since he was a teenager. This Thursday he will compete in the 50-meter freestyle - the shortest, fastest race in aquatics. Few would have expected that Ervin - at 35, the oldest American man...
- 8/11/2016
- by Kurt Pitzer, @pitzerkurt
- PEOPLE.com
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