I think Phelps medaled swimming three strokes (fly, free, breast) and Spitz only one. But I'm not 100% on that.
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Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 10:49:32 am PDT #5485 of 10003
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Kat - Aug 26, 2008 10:50:34 am PDT #5486 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In other news, Spa Week is coming up for west coasters on Sept. 15. For those of you who don't remember me pushing it before, it's a bunch of spas doing $50 treatments. I keep thinking, "Well HELLO facial!"
Lee - Aug 26, 2008 10:52:27 am PDT #5487 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
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amych - Aug 26, 2008 10:53:45 am PDT #5488 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Spitz medals:
(the 100 m freestyle [00:51:22], 200 m freestyle [01:52:78], 100 m butterfly [00:54:27], 200 m butterfly [02:00:70], 4 x 100 m freestyle relay [03:26:42], 4 x 200 m freestyle relay [07:35:78] and the 4 x 100 m medley relay [03:48:16])
Wikipedia is strangely silent about which stroke he did in that last medley, but either free or fly seems most likely.
brenda m - Aug 26, 2008 10:56:49 am PDT #5489 of 10003
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I'm sure if you had, say, ten individual decathlon medals along with the "all around" we have now Spitz's record could have been broken that way.
Aren't there? I mean, aren't there individual medals for most if not all of the pieces that make up decathalon?
DavidS - Aug 26, 2008 10:57:08 am PDT #5490 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
but either free or fly seems most likely.
Pretty sure it's the freestyle since he won the 100M free.
amych - Aug 26, 2008 10:59:05 am PDT #5491 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Pretty sure it's the freestyle since he won the 100M free.
He also won the 100M fly, is what I'm saying. (At a guess, I'd actually also say free since that's the stroke he's most remembered for. But if he were even competent at breast or back, he'd've been doing IM too. But not the instant messaging kind. Not in 1972.)
(eta: also, by "competent" I mean "world class", not, say, "failing to drown")
Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 10:59:32 am PDT #5492 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Wikipedia is strangely silent about which stroke he did in that last medley, but either free or fly seems most likely.
OK, maybe my half-rememberd stat is that Spitz did it in two strokes (free & fly) and Phelps in all four (turns out one medal was an IM).
Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 11:01:22 am PDT #5493 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Aren't there? I mean, aren't there individual medals for most if not all of the pieces that make up decathalon?
They're all individual events, but they're contested by different athletes entirely.
I'm not sure if that's always been the case.
sumi - Aug 26, 2008 11:02:59 am PDT #5494 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
You know Eric Heiden is an orthopedic surgeon now?