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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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.
I was an age-grouper with no goggles one summer
I swam with eyes open. I remember seeing haloes around lights for most of the summer. That could not have been good for my eyes.
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.
I was an age-grouper with no goggles one summer
I swam with eyes open. I remember seeing haloes around lights for most of the summer. That could not have been good for my eyes.
