Lydia Jacoby returns to swimming’s global stage without those famous goggles

Lydia Jacoby, the Alaskan teen who stormed to Tokyo Olympic gold, returns to major international swimming this week. But she won’t be wearing her famous goggles.

Jacoby, 17, competes at a major meet — the world short course championships in Abu Dhabi (TV schedule here) — for the first time without the pink-rounded Speedo goggles given to her by 2012 Olympian Jessica Hardy Meichtry after a 2017 swim clinic. Read More