“The USA team of Kim Peyton, Wendy Boglioli, Jill Sterkel and Shirley Babashoff shocked the doped East Germans-along with the rest of the world-by swimming out of their heads and setting a world record of 3:44.82, whipping the GDR by 68-hundredths of a second. Knowledgeable observers regard the upset as the greatest display of determination and competitive courage in Olympic history.” So writes Swimming World Magazine’s Phillip Whitten. To read the rest of Phillip’s article, please see
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