Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried law student he began visiting Cheviot with Zara and her family. And, as a strong swimmer, he had often plunged into rougher waters...
...effort to keep up with the championship pace set by Yale and the other top teams, Brooks introduced a system of cuts for the first time this year. He established a qualifying time for each event. If a swimmer could not break the time he was dropped from the team...
...this because we weren't getting many swimmers of Eastern League calibre. This system will eliminate the tourist swimmer--the kind of boy who takes up space in practice but contributes little in meets," says Brooks...
...show continued with performances by some of the leading contenders for the 1968 Olympic games. Yale swimmer Steve Clark and four of his teammates ran mock races to show the form which has made Yale one of the nation's formost swimming colleges. Mickey King, leading contender for the women's one meter diving gold medal at Mexico City in 1968, finished the show with a diving exhibition...
Channel swimming makes no special splash these days, so Australia's Linda McGill, 21, showed up in France with a new gimmick. A free-spirited Olympic swimmer who was banned from competition after riding a bike into the Japanese Imperial moat, Linda announced that she would tame the Channel clad only in goggles and bear grease. When the Channel Swimming Association frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself...