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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Dutch Olympic swimming champion Pieter van den Hoogenband won't swim at the world championships in Montreal in July because he is still recovering from a hernia operation.
"Doctors have warned me that I'd be taking an irresponsible risk if I took part," he wrote Friday in a weekly column in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
He said he was swimming well after the operation but "not at full speed. I avoid fast starts and turns. If I test myself explosively, I could do irreparable damage to my body."
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