American swimmer Mark Spitz had made ... Here’s a look at Spitz’s life and career, along with why his Jewish identity mattered at the Munich Games. By age 10, Spitz was already a standout ...

Mark Spitz pursued perfection from go. He set his first U.S. national age group record in a boys ... shaven head that remains one of the lasting images of the 1972 Games in the pool.

Spitz was taught to swim at the age of 2 by his father Arnold. "You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean," his mother Lenore later told reporters. "He'd run in like he was trying ...

He started thinking he could do better than a lot of the photos he saw ... Mark Spitz. Mark Spitz had grown up in Sacramento, Calif., where he was a record-setting age group swimmer.

says Mark Spitz on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury ... Sacramento this time -- and at the YMCA Spitz received his first competitive instruction. At age nine, his dad took him to Arden Hills Swim ...

Mark Spitz is 36 years removed from ... I’ll be the first to congratulate him.” Spitz said that his failed comeback attempt at age 39, and the success of Dara Torres at 41, are not comparable ...

In the summer of 2018, Olympic legend Mark Spitz ... as it does for Spitz, or too slow (bradycardia). Curiously, it’s relatively common among elite athletes as they age. And in case you need ...