Tag: Mark Spitz
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Depression not just rampant in swimming: Mark Spitz
Read for instance zeenews Ian Thorpe`s much-publicised battle have prompted many to believe that success and depression often go hand in glove in swimming, but nine-time Olympic champion swimmer Mark Spitz feels the psychological disorder today is not just limited to his sport but rampant in other disciplines as well. The multiple American Olympic champion…
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Mark Spitz motivational talk at the National Sports Institute (ISN) in Malaysia
Former United States swimming legend, Mark Spitz held a motivational talk for the Malaysian athletes and coaches at the National Sports Institute (ISN) yesterday.
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Staying Gold: Olympic Champions Who Went on to Succeed in Other Careers
Read equities - Mark Spitz and Ryan Lochte featured, yay! Mark Spitz America’s best swimmer not named Michael Phelps, Spitz dominated the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, setting multiple world records on his way to winning eleven Olympic medals, nine of them gold. Spitz abruptly retired from the sport at age 22 to get into show business.…
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Fourth consecutive win for Bosphorus Cross-Continental champ MusluoÄŸlu
Read Hürriyet Daily News and see bosphorus.cc Hasan Emre MusluoÄŸlu from Turkey received the gold medal among the 1,532 swimmers at the 25th Bosphorus Cross-Continental Races yesterday in Istanbul, marking his fourth consecutive win. Another Turkish swimmer, BertuÄŸ ÇoÅŸkun, and Russia’s Evgeny Bezruchenko came in second and third respectively. MusluoÄŸlu finished the 6.5-kilometer race across…
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Mark Spitz going for gold in Munich 1972
A trip down memory lane, including the moustache story http://youtu.be/QCeIo-Y_Ljc
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Cynthia Steele Vance interviews Mark Spitz
Former Olympic swimmer Mark “The Shark” Spitz takes a look back at his record-breaking Olympic career on PBS award-winning magazine program, “My Generation.”
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Olympic superagent Evan Morgenstein on how the techsuit ban hurt the sport of swimming
Read SwimmingWorld and listen to SwimmingWorld Radio from 41:50 Nathan: Evan you work with some of the biggest names in our sport of course legends like Dara Torres and Mark Spitz, but of course athletes these days and in London, we have got Cullen Jones and you worked with so many athletes that I would…
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Mark Spitz questions doping in swimming
Swimming legend Mark Spitz on a question regarding Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen and her record breaking performance in the Women’s 400 metre individual medley at the 2012 Olympic Games: “Certainly the performance stands on its own merits. World record swims and she drops her time by seconds from one year to the next. Obviously that…
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Mark Spitz’s advice to Michael Phelps: “Stop listening to the press”
Hear hear, read more here on CNN