Biography of Mark Spitz

Moreover, he always sets goals and works hard to achieve them. His passion for sports has led him to a professional career. He worked extremely hard and was able to win many marathons, breaking the two-hour time record. Before long, he was able to win many gold, silver, and bronze medals. He also made sure athletes like him with disabilities were not left out in games. As he grew older, he started coaching sports, like wheelchair basketball, wheelchair volleyball, and softball. His determination allowed him to continue setting goals and working hard to achieve

"I was 8-years-old when the U. S. won gold at the 1980 Olympics,” NHL veteran Steve Konowalchuk told ESPN. “I remember watching the games and celebrating each victory. I worked very hard on my game as a result, hoping to one day be a part of something as special as winning an Olympic gold medal."

As I mentioned before swimmers aren’t based on their ability to master the techniques but also in the values they posses. The values they posses are respect, honesty, fairness and courage. I had to learn and use those values everyday I went to swimming practice. There’s one thing that I needed to have to become part of the discourse community, which was being passionate about swimming and not giving up. At the beginning it was really hard for me not to give up when I was exhausted, but after becoming more passionate for swimming I never gave up. There were moments when I thought of giving up, but I knew that if I really wanted to call my self a swimmer I shouldn’t give up and I didn’t. For example, once I was in a Swimming Festival in my High School where I competed the four different strokes. I always finished second in the 50-meter freestyle race, but that day I decided I would end up first place. The race started and I jumped into the water and started pacing my self so that I would finish strong. In the first 25-meters we were all tied up and I was starting to feel tired. But I knew I couldn’t give up, so I took a deep breath and pushed harder. I pushed harder and was able to win the first place. After this race, I realized that even though I felt like giving up, something inside me was telling me to push harder and that thought led me to success. I was able to

My parents tell me that I took to swimming like... a fish takes to water. It is a safe place where I can float free of worries. Driven by passion and dedication, I decided to begin swimming competitively. Competitive swimming requires an intense level of determination and discipline. Forcing myself to get out of my warm bed at 5:30 in the morning to put on a still-slightly-damp swimsuit and stand in 40-degree weather waiting for practice to start. Putting up with limited lane space and irritating swimmers who think they are faster. Making a conscious effort to work on my stroke form, turns, touches, and techniques. The water becomes a whirlpool of injuries, losses, wins, friendships, enemies, and sickness. The water becomes home.

As a casual reader of the sports section of this newspaper, you come across many articles depicting the triumphs of local athletes. However, very rarely do these articles describe the actual athlete behind the success. Athletes come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. They range from the incredibly talented to the horribly uncoordinated. Some are great teammates while others would rather be a one man team. Certain athletes seek out attention from the people around them while others are modest and stay in the background. The fact of the matter is that there is a wide spectrum of different types of athletes that exist in this world and no two athletes are exactly the same. However, each can be put

By the age of nineteen he beat the reigning AAU endurance champion herbert brennan in the one mile race then the next year he beat him again in the ten mile race by one mile during one of of his ten miles races he dislocated his arm and still swam beating an olympic gold medal winner but he ended up not winning. From ages twenty four through thirty four he won every race held in the Gulf Of Mexico.

Doing the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, some notable performances from the meet were by: 6-year-old Joseph Hawpe taking home 2nd place in the 25-yard

Continuing his winning streak, he went and won fifty-two National Championship titles and broke over fifty records in swimming. He continued winning all the way to the Olympic Trials for Paris 1924 and swept past his rivals. He was on his way to the Olympics where he won 3 gold medals in the 100 and 400 free and in the 4x200 freestyle relay. He also took home a bronze alongside the mens' water polo team. He was an astounding athlete and all of his rivals feared

In the book Foxcatcher, I could not help comparing Mark Schulz and me in terms of wrestling. I was a pretty good wrestler, but Mark Schultz became one of the best wrestlers of all time. He started his career later than me, he took losses harder than me, and he wrestled a different style compared to me.

Olympic trials for both the pentathlon and the decathlon. The pentathlon for the 1912 Olympic games consisted of the long jump, javelin throw, 200-meter dash, discus throw and a 1500-meter race. The decathlon, on the other hand, consisted of the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter dash, discus throw, 110-meter hurdles, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500 meter run. He easily won the trials for these two events, which qualified him for the 1912 Olympic games. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, Jim Thorpe also competed in the long jump and high jump during the games. To begin his Olympic career, he won four out of the five events for the pentathlon, only to place third in the javelin event, in which he had never competed before the U.S. Olympic trials. Jim Thorpe would go on to win gold in the pentathlon event. Later that day, Jim competed in the high jump and long jump events. In these events, he placed fourth in high jump, and then took seventh in the long jump. The final event Jim would participate in during the 1912 Olympics was the decathlon. Thorpe demolished the completion. He placed in the top four in all ten events. He set an Olympic record of 8,413 that would stand for nearly two decades. As legend has it, as the medals were presented to the athletes, the King of Sweden, King Gustav V approached Thorpe and stated, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” Thorpe replied in an elegant matter of just saying “Thanks, King”, just as casually as two friends talking to each other

Jim Thorpe’s peak of career came early in life. In 1912, he was named to the U.S. Olympic team for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. He won a gold medal in the pentathlon by winning four out of the five events. A week later, he won another gold medal in the decathlon. Thorpe beat the runner-up be almost 700 points, despite wearing a pair of mismatched shoes. Gustaf V, the King of Sweden, proclaimed Jim Thorpe to be the greatest athlete in the world. When he came back to America for his hero’s welcome, the following January a newspaper reported that

The journey of competitive swimming started at the age of eight for my local `neighborhood team. I exhibited great potential for the future, for I won nearly all my races. This seemed like the sport

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Watching the screen, many children and adults are glued to the swimmers that race each other in the Olympics. The swimmers are young and strong, but many do not know who these swimmers are. Adding on to what they do not know contains the history of swimming in the glorified Olympics. The backstory of this sporting event shows the progression and improvement of swimming because swimming evolved through the Olympics. This includes the beginning, improvement, and modern Olympic swimming sport.

The Olympics are an international sporting event that is held every four years where people from around the world send their best athletes to compete and see who the best of the best is when it comes to sports. The Olympics date back to Ancient Greece where their basic events included track and field, which are like men’s high jump which is the topic of this report. In this problem we are looking at the data collected from the gold medalists in the men’s high jump in from the years 1932-1980, excluding the years 1940 and 1944 where the Olympics were not held due to World War II.