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.
wiredknight
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Call me cruel, but I find the victim thing hard to swallow. Unaltered, original meet results, rankings and record progressions are widely available from reliable sources like the International Swimming Hall of Fame, USA Swimming, and Swimming World Magazine. The whole thing would be much less disturbing to me if there was one matching reference, but there isn't.
Let's get back to Olympians. Rowdy Gaines was a phenomenal speaker and clinician at the USOTC Camp a couple years ago. I hope he talks about Masters swimming during the Olympic broadcasts from Beijing. If Dara makes it, Masters is part of the story of her comeback.
Call me cruel, but I find the victim thing hard to swallow. Unaltered, original meet results, rankings and record progressions are widely available from reliable sources like the International Swimming Hall of Fame, USA Swimming, and Swimming World Magazine. The whole thing would be much less disturbing to me if there was one matching reference, but there isn't.
Let's get back to Olympians. Rowdy Gaines was a phenomenal speaker and clinician at the USOTC Camp a couple years ago. I hope he talks about Masters swimming during the Olympic broadcasts from Beijing. If Dara makes it, Masters is part of the story of her comeback.
