Word: spitz
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After Mark Spitz won seven gold medals at Munich in 1972, he retired into legendhood -- save for a brief belly flop back into racing last year. Matt Biondi, who took relay gold in Los Angeles in 1984 and seven medals, five gold, in Seoul in 1988, retired too. But he unretired a lot quicker. His passion the past four years has been to create career opportunities for mature swimmers like him -- seeking stipends and commercial sponsorship so post- collegiate athletes can hang on. He succeeded. His six-figure income reflects prize purses and exhibition fees...
1.DeLone (Harvard) def. Monica Catrina (Brown), 6-1, 6-1; 2.Elmuts (H) def. Ryu (B), 6-3, 6-4; 3.Cooper (H) def. Thomas (B), 6-2, 6-2; 4.Parker (H) def Kranzberg (B), 6-2, 6-4; 5.Passent (H) def. Spitz (B), 6-2, 6-2; 6.Harris (H) def. Howard...
Christopher Columbus, hero of 1492, came under attack as a ruthless invader. A bad year, all in all, for dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...
...Spitz retired, posed for a poster and got on with his life. He seldom swam the length of a pool. Then a couple of years ago, he began to toy with a goofy idea: that he could make the U.S. Olympic team next year and win a medal in his best event, the 100-m butterfly. It is the one men's event in which times haven't dropped dramatically. Pablo Morales, now retired, holds the record of 52.84 sec., and Spitz's '72 time of 54.27 sec. would have put him seventh at the Seoul Olympics. To make...
...could it be that Palmer, Spitz and the others aren't being unrealistic? "We've always had this dogma that the human body peaks at age 26 to 28 and then goes into a slow decline," says Rick Sharp, a professor of exercise physiology at Iowa State University. "But in fact, what we were seeing was not the effects of aging per se, but of increasingly sedentary life-styles." When 50-year-old men and women began running marathons in times that once would have been records, experts began to rethink old ideas about middle...