Greg Barton, who won four medals (two of them gold) while competing in flatwater sprint for the U.S. Olympic team in the 1980s and 90s, has written this article for Bloomberg in which he encourages folks to check out his sport in the current Olympics.
Greg has also found himself credited with a fabricated quote in this Wall Street Journal article. He has announced on his Face Book page that he never said what the article says he said.
Greg's Olympic career may be over, but he's still paddling as avidly as ever. He competed in the U.S. surf ski championships over the weekend, and finished 13th overall and second among U.S. citizens.
UPDATE: (from Greg Barton's Face Book page) Apparently the Wall Street Journal mistakenly credited Greg with a comment made by his teammate on the 1992 Olympic team, Chris Barlow. Barlow points out, however, that he did not call Darren Sproles a "pipsqueak." The Wall Street Journal has said it will run a correction.
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