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.
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.
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!
Thanks Frank (Skip) Thompson for starting this thread and posting the synopsis too (haven't heard many of those names in a long time) and thanks Karen for the heads-up on the rebroadcast tomorrow morning -- Congrats on your fanatastic swim. Hope to find it and record on the DVR. I'm really looking forward to watching this.
As i read throguh Skip's synopsis, i couldn't help but think about how slow and inconsistent swimming news was communicated. I suppose for swimmers at the elite level and attending national meets, what was going on was evident. But, for the rest of us middle-of-the-pack swimmers, there was only one publication at least on the east coast (i forget the name) that came out about bi-monthly or quatrterly with some meet results;it was the only communciation of what was going on. Kevin and Eric Tillman's Dad (from around Rye, NY and both very good swimmers) may have been invoved with publishing it (i'm not for sure). Seems to me it was hand-typed and/or mimeo'd, staple-bound, and mailed. What a difference 40 years has made in what we can see and learn and how fast that happens.
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.
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!
Thanks Frank (Skip) Thompson for starting this thread and posting the synopsis too (haven't heard many of those names in a long time) and thanks Karen for the heads-up on the rebroadcast tomorrow morning -- Congrats on your fanatastic swim. Hope to find it and record on the DVR. I'm really looking forward to watching this.
As i read throguh Skip's synopsis, i couldn't help but think about how slow and inconsistent swimming news was communicated. I suppose for swimmers at the elite level and attending national meets, what was going on was evident. But, for the rest of us middle-of-the-pack swimmers, there was only one publication at least on the east coast (i forget the name) that came out about bi-monthly or quatrterly with some meet results;it was the only communciation of what was going on. Kevin and Eric Tillman's Dad (from around Rye, NY and both very good swimmers) may have been invoved with publishing it (i'm not for sure). Seems to me it was hand-typed and/or mimeo'd, staple-bound, and mailed. What a difference 40 years has made in what we can see and learn and how fast that happens.
