I read Jenny Thompson conparing herself to other famous swimmers and track people. She forgot to include Shirley Babashoff, another swimmer who won 8 medals in two olympics, Probably to many swimmers today Babashoff and most swimmers prior to 1980 are not known to them. I guess that most of the 1950's swimmers and some of the early 1960's swimmers are not known to me either. But she did mention Mary T Meagher and Tracey Caulkins that came in the generation after Shirley. Oh,well. Maybe, many of us in masters might look up information on the olympics in swimming prior to 1968. And the master swimmers that are younger need to learn about those those olympic swimmers prior to 1984.
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Also, I was remembering a funny size to olympic swimming. Anyone remember the first olympics TV movie about the olympics in Athens in 1896. The us swimmer didn't want to swim because the lake was cold. His track teammates pushed him into the lake. Remains me of some of the pools I swam in as a teenager. Some of them were pretty cold.
Also, I was remembering a funny size to olympic swimming. Anyone remember the first olympics TV movie about the olympics in Athens in 1896. The us swimmer didn't want to swim because the lake was cold. His track teammates pushed him into the lake. Remains me of some of the pools I swam in as a teenager. Some of them were pretty cold.
