Mark Spitz nearly mastered swimming's most difficult stroke, the butterfly. Fulfilling all the pre-Olympic hype, he won four individual events -- in the 100- and 200-meter freestyle and 100- and ...

Mark Spitz, considered the swiftest swimmer of all ... where his father Arnold taught him to swim. After four years in Hawaii, the family returned to California -- Sacramento this time -- and ...

HATING defeat was one of the traits American swim legend Mark Spitz emphasised when he met the club's leadership group on Tuesday afternoon. Spitz, in Melbourne for the world swimming championships, ...

She became only the sixth Olympian to reach that figure, joining swimmer Mark Spitz, track star Carl Lewis, Soviet gymnast ...