Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election. How about a two-George parlay? Giggles or not, jiggles or not, a lot of comebacking is being attempted at the world-class level in sports. A reasonable citizen may wonder what Foreman, Bjorn Borg, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nancy Lieberman Cline, John McEnroe, Jim Palmer, Mark Spitz and Jill Sterkel have in common. A reasonable answer might be they're nuts. They're all trying, or trying to try, or have recently tried, comebacks, holding high the torch for middle-aged wheezers everywhere...
...everyone is. Mark Spitz, 41, now a businessman in Beverly Hills, is the marvelous sprint swimmer who at the '72 Olympics in Munich won seven gold medals in world-record time. Spitz had a world-class mustache and was smashingly handsome. The only knock against him was that he projected the personality of a 22-year-old who had spent a lot of time in swimming pools...
...going to bet on? All things being equal, you go with the guy who's been on the block more times than the next guy. I've been on the block at the Olympics about 25 times. I personally wouldn't want to swim against Mark Spitz in the Olympics...
...Spitz's coach, Ron Ballatore, estimates...
INTERVIEW: Olympic medalist Mark Spitz...