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Speedo Ad Stars 91 Year Old
- USA Today, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 8:01 AM
This year, swim gear maker Speedo's ads are turning the focus from the Michael Phelps super-swimmers of the world and instead focusing on real people and everyday water sports.
There's a new Speedo spokesman, who is, in fact, unusual: a 91-year-old swimmer. Jurgen Schmidt is a Huntington Beach, Calif., retiree who still swims about a mile almost every day at a Masters team
practice.
