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Hoogenband returns after operation
 Hoogenband hopes to win 100m gold again at the 2008 Games AUBURN, Alabama -- Athens Olympic 100 meters freestyle champion Pieter Van den Hoogenband will make his return from hernia surgery at the US Open swim meet in Auburn, Alabama later this week.. The Dutchman underwent a hernia operation in early May after suffering back pains and was forced to miss the World Championships in July at Montreal as a result. Van den Hoogenband added silver medals in the 200m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle to his 100 free gold at Athens. The seven-time Olympic medalist plans to chase a third Olympic 100m crown at the 2008 Beijing Games. About 600 swimmers will compete at the meet, including triple 2005 world champion Katie Hoff, a 16-year-old American who captured titles at Montreal in the 200m and 400m individual medley and could swim in five events. Ukraine's Yana Klochkova, the first swimmer to win both individual medley crowns in consecutive Olympics with her Athens sweep, and Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, the 2004 Olympic bronze medalist and 2005 world runner-up, will test the US teen. 
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