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'm sorry I missed it! I wonder if it will be on again??
As Karen said the rebroadcast is tomorrow and for those on the EST its scheduled from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM on ESPN Classic so set your timers to record this. Its also on later in the day so check these listings.
espn.go.com/.../indexespn.go.com/.../index
Mark Spitz interview from this past July 2012:
That interview is timeless. I like the part where Mr. Spitz speaks about the need to change from amateur to professional status. He mentions his scholarship covered his cost then relates it to the current situation where athletes need that professional status to cover costs. We probably need a little more of that here in the US! Laureus TV did great work there, I'm a huge fan now.
