:cool: Hey i just wanted 2 know who your fav swimmer or swimmers r? Mine r Aaron Peirsol + Lenny Krayzelburg! tell me who yours r!
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Graham Johnston! Year after year, year in, year out, Graham has set new standards and records in Masters Swimming. I believe Graham is the greatest aged athlete in the world today. He does it all. Distance, sprints, all strokes, and is a tremendous off shore swimmer in events held in both warm and COLD water.
On top of his unbelievable swimming records, Graham is an inductee in the ISHOF. Graham is a winner both in and out of the pool. He is a consummate gentleman and leader. His life is a shining example of how a person should live. Graham Johnston gets my vote any day…
Kindest regards,
Tom Ellison
My favorite swimmers are all the people in their twilight years who continue to swim and stay young. We have a lady on our team who is in her 70s and on 12/31/02 she completed 100X100 meters (LC) in a little over 6 hours. That is what is truly inspiring to me.
I have to go with 3 swimmers, One woman 2 men. Pieter vd Hoogenband is it for the freestyle. I think he will be theone to beat on the next olympics.
Next, Michael Gross aka the albatross. Nobody swam or swims a nicer looking bfly. And last but not least Janet Evans. She is the better looking of the bunch!!
I have to tell you that I am a bit partial the Pieter, since I am Dutch myself.
I cannot wait for the 100 and 200 free matchup between Pieter and Ian Thorpe....
One of my favorites is the late "Buffalo Bill" Early, my former teammate at Coronado Masters. He passed away this past July 4th, suffering a fatal heart attack swimming the La Jolla Rough Water Swim. In his late-50's and early 60's when I knew him, Bill was one of the youngest people I ever met, and I swore then that I wanted to be just like him in retirement, seriously competing and having serious fun at USMS activities. I still can't believe he's gone; I thought he'd be chasing the 95-99 age group records. Well, I hope to last longer than age 65, but however many years I get, I still hope I can emmulate his attitude.
Matt
Mark Spitz would have to be my favorite swimmer of all time. It was watching him in the Olympics that made me interested in swimming and have been swimming competively for the last 30 years. Today I would have to say the my daughters team-mate at NBAC Michael Phelps impresses me as much as Spitz did in the early 70's. Michael has the ability to win more gold in 2004 that Spitz in '72.
Well, the Duke was also good at surfing. And he was at the early part of the last century when swimmers didn't train much and therefore was a natural at swimming more than those in the last part of the 20th century that became good by swimming miles upon miles of freestyle and the rest of the strokes.
