Regardless, he’s cordial and professional, prepared to strike poses but nothing extravagant prepared to smile but only occasionally. Perhaps he’s a touch insecure perhaps he doesn’t care enough to fuss or perhaps he wants simply to get on with things. Yet today he seems faintly ill at ease in front of the lens and wants no part of appraising the images that appear on the monitor. Since his mid-teens, he’s been snapped a million times. It might be a hint of nervousness he seldom betrayed at his competitive peak. There is something different about him today, however, apart from the beard. The tall man who arrives bang on time for the Men’s Health photo shoot is unmistakably Ian Thorpe: recently 40, he’s changed little since his days of gliding up and down the pools of the world as though born to the water.
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