Actually your memory is good.
Thanks for reposting on that subject, it was a shock for me to hear that I was so totally wrong on a story I thought I had down pretty good. You are the Supreme Swimming FactChecker and it seems the only thing I got wrong was the year -- for some reason I was thinking it was after the '72 Games.
One question, how do you do it?
Actually 1971 was the year I retired from competitive swimming. I only swam half of my first year in college. I pretty much followed the sport of swimming a lot from 1964 to about 1976, and I happen to have a good memory for these kind of things. The 1971 NCAA meet was probably one of the best swam meets of that year and it was a preview to what the 1972 Olympics would be. I went to a talk given by Doc Counsilman in 1989, and I remember he used the 1971 NCAA 800 Free Relay as a way to explain how to turn a negative situation into a positive situation in a Championship meet.
The 800 Free Relay qualified first in the prelims and broke the NCAA/American Record by 2/3 of a second and they were swimming just to get into the finals. Gary Hall did not swim prelims because of the 400 IM and having to do it twice before the 800 Free Relay. USC were the defending NCAA Champions and they qualified about 4 seconds behind Indiana. Earlier in the meet, USC went 1-2-4 in the 200 Free Final with Jim McConica winning the event. John Kinsella got 3rd in the event so this was going to be the Relay to watch at the meet.
Gary Hall swam in the final and had that tremendous split but it was not enough to catch USC. When the relay was DQ for the infraction, John Kinsella felt real bad and took total blame. Cousilmen said "don't worry about it" and "its no big deal because we are up by 74 points instead of 100." He also said tomorrow is another day and you know what to do. John Kinsella responded and swam probably at that time the most dominating 1650 Free ever. He won by 27 seconds and just about lapped everyone in the race. He lowered his American Record by 9 seconds. This was the positive that came after the negative.
The three swimmers on the DQ relay without Hall represented the USA in 1972 at the Olympics and won the gold medal in World Record time. The 3 swimmers were Gary Conelly, John Kinsella, and of course Mark Spitz.
Actually your memory is good.
Thanks for reposting on that subject, it was a shock for me to hear that I was so totally wrong on a story I thought I had down pretty good. You are the Supreme Swimming FactChecker and it seems the only thing I got wrong was the year -- for some reason I was thinking it was after the '72 Games.
One question, how do you do it?
Actually 1971 was the year I retired from competitive swimming. I only swam half of my first year in college. I pretty much followed the sport of swimming a lot from 1964 to about 1976, and I happen to have a good memory for these kind of things. The 1971 NCAA meet was probably one of the best swam meets of that year and it was a preview to what the 1972 Olympics would be. I went to a talk given by Doc Counsilman in 1989, and I remember he used the 1971 NCAA 800 Free Relay as a way to explain how to turn a negative situation into a positive situation in a Championship meet.
The 800 Free Relay qualified first in the prelims and broke the NCAA/American Record by 2/3 of a second and they were swimming just to get into the finals. Gary Hall did not swim prelims because of the 400 IM and having to do it twice before the 800 Free Relay. USC were the defending NCAA Champions and they qualified about 4 seconds behind Indiana. Earlier in the meet, USC went 1-2-4 in the 200 Free Final with Jim McConica winning the event. John Kinsella got 3rd in the event so this was going to be the Relay to watch at the meet.
Gary Hall swam in the final and had that tremendous split but it was not enough to catch USC. When the relay was DQ for the infraction, John Kinsella felt real bad and took total blame. Cousilmen said "don't worry about it" and "its no big deal because we are up by 74 points instead of 100." He also said tomorrow is another day and you know what to do. John Kinsella responded and swam probably at that time the most dominating 1650 Free ever. He won by 27 seconds and just about lapped everyone in the race. He lowered his American Record by 9 seconds. This was the positive that came after the negative.
The three swimmers on the DQ relay without Hall represented the USA in 1972 at the Olympics and won the gold medal in World Record time. The 3 swimmers were Gary Conelly, John Kinsella, and of course Mark Spitz.
