Ion

Originally posted by cinc310 Anyways, I know that your country Ion was known as Dacia in Roman times. Very good Cynthia. Dacia was reminiscent of the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great, when it broke in three at his death in 350 BC. Roman emperor Traian got beat in Dacia by Burebista, when trying to conquer it. After Burebista's death, Traian got beat by Decebal. In 100 AD, Traian beat Decebal at Sarmisegetusa, and Romania was born from this mixture of Macedonians and Romans. In Rome, the monument Column of Traian, depicts the last battle. We can speak also about Louvre's paintings in France, but to get back to swimming and your post about the Phillips 66 club, I read about Ron Ballatore coaching in Pasadena, Flip Darr coaching in Huntington Beach where swimmer Gary Hall was based in 1969, and Don Gambrill coaching in Long Beach. The Long Beach program, produced in the late 70s, the likes of Tim Shaw and Bruce Furniss. Together with Brian Goodell, Mike Bruner, Bobby Hackett, Paul Hartloff, these were the predecessors of Aussies Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe, and they didn't have time to mature because in 1980 US boycotted the Olympics.

Originally posted by cinc310 Anyways, I know that your country Ion was known as Dacia in Roman times. Very good Cynthia. Dacia was reminiscent of the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great, when it broke in three at his death in 350 BC. Roman emperor Traian got beat in Dacia by Burebista, when trying to conquer it. After Burebista's death, Traian got beat by Decebal. In 100 AD, Traian beat Decebal at Sarmisegetusa, and Romania was born from this mixture of Macedonians and Romans. In Rome, the monument Column of Traian, depicts the last battle. We can speak also about Louvre's paintings in France, but to get back to swimming and your post about the Phillips 66 club, I read about Ron Ballatore coaching in Pasadena, Flip Darr coaching in Huntington Beach where swimmer Gary Hall was based in 1969, and Don Gambrill coaching in Long Beach. The Long Beach program, produced in the late 70s, the likes of Tim Shaw and Bruce Furniss. Together with Brian Goodell, Mike Bruner, Bobby Hackett, Paul Hartloff, these were the predecessors of Aussies Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe, and they didn't have time to mature because in 1980 US boycotted the Olympics.