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My swimming gears: TYR bathing suit/cap, Friendly Swede goggles

August 4, 2021 at 6:06 pm · Filed under Swim

My new goggles, $22 for two, designed by the Swedes but made in China. Each goggle has a hard shell plastic box and two extra bridges. They’re pretty good – I’m still using it in 2024

Since Katie Ledecky signed up with TYR (The name TYR is a reference to the Norse god Týr), I’ve been using its gear – swimming suit since. And it’s pretty good too.

 

The following TYR bathing suits, from L: 2021, 2023, 2024. I purchased them all on Amazon, and realized that each bathing suit’s seller is different, so is the product. The Blue/yellow lasted more than two years; the green about 6 months … then ripped  – how terrible!! I’ll wait and see the solid blue which I purchased on 2024.2.20.

    

 

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Korda Inc

August 4, 2021 at 4:47 pm · Filed under Tennis

Petr Korda (1968-) and his cubs [呲牙] The skinny guy from the 1980s or 1990s, managed to produce three robust kids ☀️ must be the Florida sun 🌞: Jessica (1993-), Nelly (1998-) and Sebastian (2000-).

捷克皮包骨在佛罗里达生了3个健壮的娃 [调皮][OK]

Petr Korda was the first wave of tennis players from the Eastern Block during the weaning years of USSR. He’s from Czechoslovakia, which split in 1993, into Czech and Slovak.

I watched him up close one year at the Hampton Open (?) out of Long Island. He wasn’t the one we went to see but the featured player, either Jimmy Connors or Michael Chang pulled out of tourney. So the skinny kid stepped in. 

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