Despatie returned to the pool following a neck injury that has kept him from competition since May 2006. He took the gold medal last weekend after scoring a perfect ten and three additional 9.0s at the Canadian World Championship Trials.
And just for kicks, American Aaron Peirsol was showing fine form yesterday at the preliminaries at the 2007 Toyota Southern California Grand Prix of Swimming in Long Beach, California.
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