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
In our little forum here I think regardless of how it comes up it could hopefully be handled...at least initially...via PM.
We hope that Donna would understand for the sake of all Olympians people will want to verify...that does not however mean it should in any way be done without respect....
And Jim....I agree that its probably not a good idea to delete threads that are going down hill...but rather close them and leave as a public record for people to revisit and see for themselves what may or may not have been written.
This is basically all I was saying, however poorly. In a difficult situation such as this, handling it in some private manner is likely preferable to having a usms historian hijack two threads with accusations and having the top cat publicly weigh in on the accusations here. Plus, then you have some posters apparently salivating over "deception, bad words, and cat fighting." I did not enjoy the "cat fight," and now have a swim meet to go to as I am one of the very few that partake in said activity.
Paul: It was Rich/SwimStud that said we should avoid deletion and leave the record intact to avoid a big brother-ish approach.
For someone who was an alleged imposter, Donna certainly volunteered to retrieve information, provided name changes, etc. But it was deemed insufficient. Perhaps Olympic coaches or her coach (Don Easterling) could have been contacted. Who knows?
Kirk raises a good point about how one qualifies or qualified in the 1960s to be an "alternate."
In our little forum here I think regardless of how it comes up it could hopefully be handled...at least initially...via PM.
We hope that Donna would understand for the sake of all Olympians people will want to verify...that does not however mean it should in any way be done without respect....
And Jim....I agree that its probably not a good idea to delete threads that are going down hill...but rather close them and leave as a public record for people to revisit and see for themselves what may or may not have been written.
This is basically all I was saying, however poorly. In a difficult situation such as this, handling it in some private manner is likely preferable to having a usms historian hijack two threads with accusations and having the top cat publicly weigh in on the accusations here. Plus, then you have some posters apparently salivating over "deception, bad words, and cat fighting." I did not enjoy the "cat fight," and now have a swim meet to go to as I am one of the very few that partake in said activity.
Paul: It was Rich/SwimStud that said we should avoid deletion and leave the record intact to avoid a big brother-ish approach.
For someone who was an alleged imposter, Donna certainly volunteered to retrieve information, provided name changes, etc. But it was deemed insufficient. Perhaps Olympic coaches or her coach (Don Easterling) could have been contacted. Who knows?
Kirk raises a good point about how one qualifies or qualified in the 1960s to be an "alternate."
