Today is the 40th Anniversary of Mark Spitz winning his 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympics. A story is posted here
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../31884.asp
To celebrate this accomplishment ESPN Classic TV station is showing all of the USA Gold medal winning swimmers today including all of Mark Spitz's races. Its on right now and will be on tonight. Its on for about 3 hours.
Whats interesting is to see the suits, no goggles, and basically no underwater swimming on either the starts or the turns.
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I missed most of it too. It will be rebroadcast on 9/11 in the morning. 4-7 am in CA, I think. Hard to believe 40 years has passed. I am having a little champagne to celebrate!
For those of you who don't know, Karen Moe Humphreys swam in those Games and won a gold medal in the 200 Fly. We are honored to have her as a member of USMS. You can see her Olympic and her Masters achievements on her USMS profile page.
I missed most of it too. It will be rebroadcast on 9/11 in the morning. 4-7 am in CA, I think. Hard to believe 40 years has passed. I am having a little champagne to celebrate!
For those of you who don't know, Karen Moe Humphreys swam in those Games and won a gold medal in the 200 Fly. We are honored to have her as a member of USMS. You can see her Olympic and her Masters achievements on her USMS profile page.
