Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain

I was going to post this yesterday but didn't get to it. I think this is very important because the information that I have is backed up by facts and truths that are documeted in Swimming World Magazine. There were 3 statements that were made that were pure lies about Matt Biondi. In the November 1991 issue of Swimming World Magazine there was an interview with both Matt Biondi and Tom Jager in fact both were on the cover. In that interview Matt stated that it was his intention to retire after the Barcelona Olympics and that his main goal was to qualify for 5 events and skipping the 200 Free unlike 1988. The only swimming that he would do after those Olympics was promotional prize money races that were set up in 1990. He only did two competitions, one in France at the end of 1992 and one in early 1993 to fulfill his contractal obligations. When this interview was done Aexandar Popov was an unknown and never swam in a World Class event. So Lie #1 "I didn't like when in 1992 he splashed around for one more year and a half then quit instead of raising to the challenge". Matt Biondi never went in any sanctioned U.S. Swimming competition after the Olympics and announced his retirement on April 9, 1993. This is documented on the last page of the December, 1993 issue of Swimming World Magazine in Parting Shots. That 8 months and 4 days after the swimming events ended at the 1992 Olympics. Lie #2 "Since 1990 he was paid by U.S. Swimming $50,000 per year to stay in swimming and win". Again this is documented in the November, 1991 issue of Swimming World Magazine, "Biondi receives $2000 a month from the athletes assistance program of U.S. Swimming, got a one time payment this year of $3000 from the U.S. Olympic Committee and has earned $56,851 in prize money". It went on to say that he is represented by agent Parkes Brittain of the Advantge International whose responsibility was to set up the swim meets, endorsements, and public appearances and collect the earnings from the appearance money. He was in no way subsidized that amount from U.S. Swimming. Lie #3 "With no more character than winning repeately than a flake". Unbeaten in the 100 Free at a major competition from 1984 Olympic Trials until the 1992 Olympics. This includes 2 World Championships in 1985 and 1991 and the 1990 Goodwill Games which were the most important international swimming competitions between the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. The statement about the flake has no pride, no dignity, no honor to it at all. Especially from a person who at the USMS level of championship swimming has never won repeately, never made a National Top Ten, and has consistenly placed at the lower 20% level at Nationals.

I was going to post this yesterday but didn't get to it. I think this is very important because the information that I have is backed up by facts and truths that are documeted in Swimming World Magazine. There were 3 statements that were made that were pure lies about Matt Biondi. In the November 1991 issue of Swimming World Magazine there was an interview with both Matt Biondi and Tom Jager in fact both were on the cover. In that interview Matt stated that it was his intention to retire after the Barcelona Olympics and that his main goal was to qualify for 5 events and skipping the 200 Free unlike 1988. The only swimming that he would do after those Olympics was promotional prize money races that were set up in 1990. He only did two competitions, one in France at the end of 1992 and one in early 1993 to fulfill his contractal obligations. When this interview was done Aexandar Popov was an unknown and never swam in a World Class event. So Lie #1 "I didn't like when in 1992 he splashed around for one more year and a half then quit instead of raising to the challenge". Matt Biondi never went in any sanctioned U.S. Swimming competition after the Olympics and announced his retirement on April 9, 1993. This is documented on the last page of the December, 1993 issue of Swimming World Magazine in Parting Shots. That 8 months and 4 days after the swimming events ended at the 1992 Olympics. Lie #2 "Since 1990 he was paid by U.S. Swimming $50,000 per year to stay in swimming and win". Again this is documented in the November, 1991 issue of Swimming World Magazine, "Biondi receives $2000 a month from the athletes assistance program of U.S. Swimming, got a one time payment this year of $3000 from the U.S. Olympic Committee and has earned $56,851 in prize money". It went on to say that he is represented by agent Parkes Brittain of the Advantge International whose responsibility was to set up the swim meets, endorsements, and public appearances and collect the earnings from the appearance money. He was in no way subsidized that amount from U.S. Swimming. Lie #3 "With no more character than winning repeately than a flake". Unbeaten in the 100 Free at a major competition from 1984 Olympic Trials until the 1992 Olympics. This includes 2 World Championships in 1985 and 1991 and the 1990 Goodwill Games which were the most important international swimming competitions between the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. The statement about the flake has no pride, no dignity, no honor to it at all. Especially from a person who at the USMS level of championship swimming has never won repeately, never made a National Top Ten, and has consistenly placed at the lower 20% level at Nationals.