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999-The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here FIT TO BE TIED: The 1972 Munich Olympics Tale of How a Close Race Between Gunnar Larsson and Tim McKee Led To An International Rule Allowing Tie...

Aleksandr Kabanov, who struck Olympic gold in 1972 and 1980 as a player for the Soviet Union men’s water polo team and a pair of bronze medals as coach—in 1988 as an assistant with the USSR in the Seoul Olympics, then as head coach for Russia in the 2004 Athens Games—passed away Wednesday at the age...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about Mark Spitz' historic 7 for 7 gold medal wins at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 48 years ago. Also featured is news about CSCAA Executive Director Greg Earhe....

Munich Games 50th: Shane Gould Swam Into History Books in Her Only Olympics It's been 50 years since the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, and Swimming World is celebrating the golden anniversary with several features on the athletes and events from those Games. Mark Spitz Rick DeMont Gunnar Larsson & T...

A Gross Injustice: How Rick DeMont Lost His 1972 Olympic Gold Days After Winning It By John Lohn In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, 16-year-old Rick DeMont had won the 400 meter freestyle only to have his gold medal taken away several days later in one of the biggest injustices in Olympic history. Ot.....

Tragedy again struck Gwangju, South Korea and the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships. Saturday night in a 70+ masters water polo match between the Blue Thunder Masters Polo Team from Southern California and Australia’s Perth Cockatoos, Robert Wake, Jr., a masters player from the Blue Thunder clu...