DOG ASIDE: ABC’s Donna de Varona and Ester Williams bring the 3rd and final phase of the finals in the synchronized swimming competition at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics….as the viewer gets a look at highlights of Ester Williams movie “The Million Dollar Mermaid”….in which the glamorous actress of the “water ballet” gives us a…
DOG ASIDE: As ABC’s Jack Whitaker and Cynthia Potter so aptly put it….the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics men’s platform diving competition….provided the viewer with some of the greatest dives and divers in the world….including USA Greg Louganis, USA Bruce Kimball, CHN Li Kongzheng and CHN Tong Hui, FGR Albin Killat, FGR Dieter Dorr, GBR Christopher…
DOG ASIDE: Saban Trstena is a former freestyle wrestler….who won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles….and also won the silver medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Trstena is currently the youngest to win any wrestling gold at the Olympics….being 19 years of age at the Los Angeles Olympics. In the 1984 European Championships….Trstena…
DOG ASIDE: Bruce Robert Baumgartner is a retired American amateur wrestler and current athletic director at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania near Erie, Pennsylvania….who won the gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in the 100+ kg freestyle wrestling championship. Baumgartner ranked as one of the top super-heavyweight freestyle wrestlers for more than a…
DOG ASIDE: Robert “Bobby” Brooks Weaver, Sr. was a freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at 48 kg (105.5 pounds) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles….while also winning a silver medal at the 1979 world championships….and was a member of the 1980 Olympic team that boycotted the Moscow Olympics. Weaver began competing in…
DOG ASIDE: In these video highlights of the women’s handball Group B competition of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics…..the team from the USA takes on the eventual Group B winner and ultimate silver medal winning team from the Federal German Republic (West Germany) in Group competition. Handball is an old sport that has been played…
DOG ASIDE: Mario Alvarez Martinez was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States….having been coached by Jim Schmitz. Martinez was born and raised on a ranch in Salinas, California….where at a young age would strength train under a tree with a non-revolving exercise bar and weights. He would tie some of these weights on the bar…
DOG ASIDE: Earl H. Bell is a former world record-holding pole vaulter from the United States….winner of the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics….and current coach to a number of the nation’s top men and women vaulters. At his last Olympic appearance, Bell finished fourth at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He…
DOG COMMENTARY: The pole vault competition at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was a battle between two Americans….Earl Bell & Mike Tulley…..and two Frenchman….Thierry Vigneron & Pierre Quinon….as each were world record holders….and breakers for that matter….within the 12 months leading up to The Games. Tulley is facing his third and final attempt at 18…