{"id":428030,"date":"2020-04-22T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=428030"},"modified":"2020-04-22T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:59:31","slug":"time-together-at-auburn-a-respite-for-butterfliers-santiago-grassi-luis-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/time-together-at-auburn-a-respite-for-butterfliers-santiago-grassi-luis-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Together at Auburn a Respite for Butterfliers Santiago Grassi, Luis Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Olympics had been postponed, but you might not have known it from the atmosphere inside Santiago Grassi\u2019s<\/strong> garage that week.<\/p>\n

There in Auburn, Alabama, Grassi and his swimming friends collected in a veritable United Nations of swimming for a dryland session, part workout, part escape from the coronavirus uncertainty swirling. The global collection of talents \u2013 the Argentine Grassi, American Thomas Heinzel,<\/strong> Luxembourg\u2019s Julie Meynen, Jaqueline Hippi<\/strong> of Sweden, Guatemalan Luis Martinez,<\/strong> who posted the video to Instagram \u2013 isn\u2019t new for an elite program like Auburn.<\/p>\n

But the pairing of Grassi and Martinez in particular provides an intriguing mix: Two veteran Olympians from Latin American countries not known for their swimming pedigrees, both of whom absorbed the news of the Olympic postponement to 2021 knowing they already had achieved A cuts in their specialty event, the 100-meter butterfly.<\/p>\n

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