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.
Haha, like I can remember....but I'm pretty sure open, with very red eyes after practice. Unbelievable to think of doing that now. They probably used more chlorine then, too.
In the 70s we all swam without goggles, eyes open. I remember my eyes would burn afterward, and when I would look at lights, they would appear to have a halo around them. I also remember we would fill our goggles with tap water and put our eyes in them to try to wash out the chlorine. It stung, but it did seem to help (perhaps just by making our eyes tear?)
Ah, memories.
Haha, like I can remember....but I'm pretty sure open, with very red eyes after practice. Unbelievable to think of doing that now. They probably used more chlorine then, too.
In the 70s we all swam without goggles, eyes open. I remember my eyes would burn afterward, and when I would look at lights, they would appear to have a halo around them. I also remember we would fill our goggles with tap water and put our eyes in them to try to wash out the chlorine. It stung, but it did seem to help (perhaps just by making our eyes tear?)
Ah, memories.
