I am looking for a list of Olympian Masters and what Olympics and events they particpated in. If you have such a list or know where one is, please let me know. Individual anecdotes are OK too.
Background:
I want to write to "Splash" magazine and ask them to feature some of the people on such a list when they write about great swimmers. I'm tired of reading (and having my kids read) about so-and-so great swimmer, who got to the Olympics, did great, and now swimming is behind them (i.e. they don't swim anymore). On the "mission statement" of Splash, they give lip service to a lifelong involvement with swimming, but they never seem to come up with an example of such a person.
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I've been lucky enough to hold two Olympic Gold medals in my lifetime (so far).
BJ Bedford let me wear her gold medal from the women's 4 x 100 medley relay at the Sydney Olympics when we took a picture together at the USOTC in Colorado Springs. BJ and I both attended the Peddie School, and I first met her when shooting a cover for Swimming World Magazine back in the early '90's. The cover also featured swimmer Nelson Diebel and coach Chris Martin at the Peddie School's Clinton I. Sprout Pool.
Tom Jager spoke at the Oregon Masters awards banquet in 2005 and passed the medals around for all to see. So I got to touch the gold medal he won swimming the prelims of the 4 x 100 medley relay at the Los Angeles Olympics. It was pretty scuffed up and scratched from years of being handled by fans.
I really wanted to bid on Anthony Ervin's gold medal when he sold it on eBay. I would've given it back to him. But the best memorabilia I have to offer is an autographed swim cap with Tracy Caulkins' and Michael Phelps' names on the same cap, and another with Mary T. Meagher and Ian Crocker on the same cap. Somewhere, I have a ticket stub from the 2004 Janet Evans Invitational signed by Janet.
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I've been lucky enough to hold two Olympic Gold medals in my lifetime (so far).
BJ Bedford let me wear her gold medal from the women's 4 x 100 medley relay at the Sydney Olympics when we took a picture together at the USOTC in Colorado Springs. BJ and I both attended the Peddie School, and I first met her when shooting a cover for Swimming World Magazine back in the early '90's. The cover also featured swimmer Nelson Diebel and coach Chris Martin at the Peddie School's Clinton I. Sprout Pool.
Tom Jager spoke at the Oregon Masters awards banquet in 2005 and passed the medals around for all to see. So I got to touch the gold medal he won swimming the prelims of the 4 x 100 medley relay at the Los Angeles Olympics. It was pretty scuffed up and scratched from years of being handled by fans.
I really wanted to bid on Anthony Ervin's gold medal when he sold it on eBay. I would've given it back to him. But the best memorabilia I have to offer is an autographed swim cap with Tracy Caulkins' and Michael Phelps' names on the same cap, and another with Mary T. Meagher and Ian Crocker on the same cap. Somewhere, I have a ticket stub from the 2004 Janet Evans Invitational signed by Janet.
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