For the better part of his life, Jozsef Nagy has been chasing time. As a breaststroke swimmer he sought to be faster and won at the Hungarian Junior National Championships in 1973 before retiring from the sport three years later.
As a coach of 42 years, he obsessed over perfecting the stroke - creating the revolutionary wave-action technique - and guided, cajoled and pushed Olympic medallists Sergio Lopez and Mike Barrowman to new heights.
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