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Old 05-14-2015, 10:46 AM
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Default OT - Are there any other Olympic Athletes on the Board?

No, I didn't win a Gold Medal. And I didn't get lucky in an Olympic Village in Germany. And the requirements for contending were only the ownership of a boat or knowing a skipper who needed a crew, but I did receive this useful memento for my participation in this 1972 qualifier and I don't fish.



















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i was a gymnast in the 88 olympics...i won a silver medal in the pommel horse!
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My friend's father was a participant in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics as a wrestler on Mexico's national squad.
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Didn't know you were from Hungary and changed your name from Zsolt Borkai.
Zsolt was on the pommel horse. Pete was in it.
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He's been getting pommeled ever since.
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I curled in the National Champioships in Ogden,UT in 2000. The winner of the championship was the next Olympic team. We actually did very well in the first round and were one of the top teams (16 teams in two brackets, we were 5-2). In the first game of the second round we lost a heartbreaker to the prior Olympic team in an extra end. The thing I remember most was that a local school was let into the arena and was sitting in the upper deck watching the match. A few kids started throwing M&Ms onto the ice. The pieces were too big to affect the rocks but it was a funny scene.
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Since we did win a bronze, and 10th place, in Star we did okay. I have met one of the medalists, Peter Dean from Mass. The best yachtsmen on that 1972team sailed out of Wisconsin.
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Can't remember if it was 1986 or 87. I won the State tournament at 165lbs. in boxing for the Junior Olympics. Back then it was like a qualifier to try out for the Olympic team and if you placed high enough you could fight internationally.
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Hey Frank,

When I saw it was your thread, I thought you'd be reminiscing about the days back on Mount Olympus!!
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I am swimming in a USMS Masters swim meet June 6th. Perhaps count for something? Few years back held Oregon state record in 50 M Butterfly.
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I would have won gold and qualified for Olympic competition in my youth but the International Olympic Committee has yet to recognize "masturbation" as an official sport. Perhaps someday.....
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I would have won gold and qualified for Olympic competition in my youth but the International Olympic Committee has yet to recognize "masturbation" as an official sport. Perhaps someday.....
Would make a great demonstration sport at the Olympics. Same with Projectile Vomiting. Earned a varsity letter in that when I was at UCLA.
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Gives "going for the gold" a whole new beating meaning.
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I've never been an Olympic athlete, but I watched the Olympics in a Holiday Inn Express once.
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Gives "going for the gold" a whole new beating meaning.
"Clean and Jerk" would also not be the same I guess....
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LOL, what did I start....have a feeling this one goes on for awhile. I also hope if they ever do make it a sport it's a summer games thing. Wouldn't be to much fun in the cold, also dangerous.
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You were probably assuming the Olympic record book had a 'blank name' for the silver medal winner.
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There have been several sports where, if I had won a whole lot more competitions, I could eventually have become an Olympian. The farthest stretch for me would be 7th grade intramural basketball, where I was a sub. The closest would be....well, I guess that might also be the closest.

I have beaten two U.S. Olympic marathoners in 10K road races, but one was running with his son and the other was leading a pace group. I was also in a Miller Lite commercial which might have aired in Des Moines, but if the hot chicks who were also in the commercial had not laughed when I said "less filling" it could have aired during the Olympics.

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"You know Bob, this young Wonka is one to watch. He posted the best score coming out of qualifiers, and with his combination of speed, distance, and style he may be the odds on favorite for gold this year. He's got a determined look in his eyes, and has clearly put in a lot of work leading up to these games."
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I was on the USA's Team Handball for the Deaf Olympics at Rome, Italy in 2001, we finished 3rd place.

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In 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, I did not participate.

In 1972, I staged a one-man boycott but did not get any publicity.

In 1976, I injured myself in a bizarre lawn-maintenance accident and had not fully recovered in time to compete.

In 1980, I totally missed the games because of an extended sugar-induced coma.

For the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, I did, in fact, make an appearance - just not there.

In 1988, I had a sugar-based relapse that I will not discuss.

In 1992, I was married and therefore had no control over the balls I usually played with.

In 1996, Just before I divorced her, my ex deflated my balls extending my inability to play with them at any competitive level.

In 2000, I caught the millennium bug and coughed continually for seven weeks, severely straining my groin.

After that, I just decided my future involvement would be limited to non-competitive hamburger consumption.
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The mans on a roll! LMAO.

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Sounds like Wonka was a candidate for the handball team also
Or the "pole" vault. But definitely not the breaststroke, he could only wish.
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On a semi-serious note, I had a shot at qualifying for the Olympic trials as a boxer in 1976 when I injured my shoulder. I remember watching the games with my Dad. After seeing Sugar Ray Leonard, he turned to me and said, "Tommy, I gotta tell you... you got a lucky break, you would never lay a glove on that guy". That ended my boxing career.
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Wonka would've/could've been a star in the ancient Olympics where all of the athletes competed in the nude.

I think Frank came in 4th overall in wrestling (Athens 456 BC)
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Since we did win a bronze, and 10th place, in Star we did okay. I have met one of the medalists, Peter Dean from Mass. The best yachtsmen on that 1972team sailed out of Wisconsin.
Sounds like you are speaking of Buddy Melges. I live not far from him in Southern Wisconsin and go past the small "factory" on occasion in a VERY small town here. It is so small the post office used to be someone's front porch.
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Sounds like you are speaking of Buddy Melges. I live not far from him in Southern Wisconsin and go past the small "factory" on occasion in a VERY small town here. It is so small the post office used to be someone's front porch.
Yes, Buddy Melges, Bill Bentsen and Bill Allen, gold medalists in the soling class (3 man keelboat) were members of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club, though Melges was the only one from Wisconsin. Melges was born in Elkhorn and lived in Zelda. Allen was from Minneapolis and Bentsen from Chicago. Bentsen graduated undergrad from the same school as my wife, Denison in Ohio.
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Yes, Buddy Melges, Bill Bentsen and Bill Allen, gold medalists in the soling class (3 man keelboat) were members of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club, though Melges was the only one from Wisconsin. Melges was born in Elkhorn and lived in Zelda. Allen was from Minneapolis and Bentsen from Chicago. Bentsen graduated undergrad from the same school as my wife, Denison in Ohio.

I didnt realize he was from Elkhorn as that is where I currently live. I do wish they would promote Mr Melges' accomplishments in and around his hometown. They really dont speak of him at all.
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Here are a couple of photos from my archives.


The first photo shows members of the U.S. Yachting team leaving for Tokyo from O'Hare:
Buddy Melges, Bill Bentsen, Peter Barrett, Dick Stearns and Lynn Willians.
Melges and Bentsen won a bronze in the Flying Dutchman Class (2 person dinghy where one person is attached to the boat via a rope and trapeze and leans out of the boat over the water to control it). Bentsen was an Assistant Dean at Beloit College at the time.
Peter Barrett won a silver in the Finn Class (one person dinghy). He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin
Dick Stearns and Lynn Williams won a silver in the Star Class (2 person keelboat). They were both sailmakers.

The other photo shows the boat of Melges, Bentsen and Allen on their way to winning the gold medal in the soling class at the 1972 Olympics. The boat on the left, D-64 is skippered by Paul Elvstron who was trying to become the first person to win a gold medal in 5 Olympics in sailing.
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With all that right arm forearm strength you could have dominated in arm wresting as well, although no one would have wanted to touch your hand...
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