DOG ASIDE: William Theodore “Willie” de Wit (born June 13, 1961 in Three Hills, Alberta) is a Canadian criminal defense lawyer and retired professional Canadian boxer….who fought for Canada and won the Heavyweight silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics…..as he and teammate Shawn O’Sullivan were heavily touted going into the Games….as both had won…
DOG ASIDE: Henry Durand Tillman (born August 1, 1960) is an American former boxer…..who twice defeated Mike Tyson as an amateurs….winning both bouts via close decisions. Tillman went on to win heavyweight gold at the Los Angeles Olympics against highly touted Canadian boxer Willie de Wit Tillman turned pro in 1984 as a cruiser weight and had…
DOG COMMENTARY: There were several original video recordings in Bone Daddy library…..especially during the recorded ABC telecasts of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics….that sound like they were recorded under water…..I mean, you can discern what is being said….but it is “gurgally” (another original Chiweenie L E word like “sportsphile” in found in my writings….for I…
DOG ASIDE: Frank Tate (born August 27, 1964 in Detroit, MI) was an American boxer….who was the 1983 National Golden Gloves light middleweight champion….also winning the Light Middleweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics….even though he had standing eight-counts administered to him twice in the second round of the gold medal bout against Canadian fighter…
DOG ASIDE: Jerry Louis Page (born January 15, 1961 in Columbus, Ohio) was an American boxer…..who won the light welterweight gold medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics…..who had a year earlier won a silver medal at the 1983 Pan American Games. His road to 1984 Olympic gold was as follows…..where he 1st defeated Helmut…
DOG ASIDE: Mac Maurice Wilkins (born November 15, 1950) is an American athlete….who competed mainly in the discus throw. Wilkins competed for the United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada in the discus throw….where he won the gold medal with a distance of 221′ 5″ to defeat Wolfgang Schmidt of East Germany by four…
DOG ASIDE: USA Greg Louganis ran away with both gold medals in the men’s 3 m springboard and the men’s 10 m platform diving competitions at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics….but there was a serious “dive-for-dive” contest going on for the silver medal in platform diving…..as USA Bruce Kimball and CHN Li Hongzheng were attacking…
DOG COMMENTARY: I want to shed a little light on USA’s 1984 Olympic Men’s Platform Diver Bruce D. Kimball….who won a silver medal for the 10 meter platform at the 1984 Summer Olympics….placing behind fellow teammate Greg Louganis. The truth be known….had Kimball been in many other Olympic platform diving events other than one where a…
DOG ASIDE: Albin Killat (born January 1, 1961 in Munich, Bayern) is a retired diver from Germany….who is best known for twice winning the gold medal in the men’s 3m springboard event at the European Championships (1987 and 1991). Killat represented West Germany in two consecutive Summer Olympics…starting in 1984 (Los Angeles, California). He ended…