PORT ORANGE -Local swimmers want more than Olympic gold this
summer. They want to bring home the swimming pool, too.
If Steve Lochte has his way, the warm-up swimming pool
used for the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., will have its permanent
home next to the Port Orange YMCA.
"It would be nice to offer the
community the same pool that Ryan made the Olympic team in,"
said Lochte, who is the father of Ryan Lochte, a gold medal winner
in the 2004 Olympics, and the head coach
for Daytona Swimming Inc.
Lochte wants to raise $100,000
for a down payment by the end of February, which would reserve the
pool once the
trials for the Beijing Olympics are concluded.
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