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Standing knee-deep in autograph seekers and television sets at a furniture store in Murray yesterday, Mark Spitz stood as a kind of one-man monument to Olympic endurance. What's it been, 32 years now since he wore that seven-gold-medal necklace after the Munich Games of 1972? And not only is he still standing, but so are his records for medals won.
Spitz has changed since he posed with all that gold for one of the more memorable photographs in sports history. He just passed his 54th birthday and he looks more like an NFL linebacker than the lean swimmer who changed Olympic history. Gone, too, is his trademark mustache of '72.See the full content of this document
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Golden Glow Still Shining On Spitz
What hasn't changed is the singularity of what he achieved. The most prolific record in Olympic history remains on his mantle: most gold medals won in a...
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