Since I was a very young swimmer you were my inspiration! I went all the way to USC (from Barcelona, Spain) just to train with you. Thanks Janet for your friendship. I am a better swimmer, and a better person, just because of you!!!
I'm pole vaulting at 70. I started coaching H.S. last year, 2021, and this winter I'm starting practicing with one of the kids who wanted to get an early start outdoors in winter. I'm going for it. Thanks, Janet!
Janet set the standard for long distance swimming races. Katie Ladecky has upgraded the standards. Both are among the all time greats and a proud Nation salutes them.
Wow, what an inspiration! As I'm headed to the pool at age 40, 20 years after my prime swimming years, I feel encouraged and inspired to believe in myself and to do this for me. Thank you, Janet! Thank you for being true to yourself and showing the world what you're made of.
Thanks for sharing your inspiring story of your swimming career! It captures the highs and lows of an elite athlete that most of us could only dream of being. Thanks for giving us a glimpse of what you went through! Really inspiring.
I love Janet - she's my Olympic heartthrob, and when she got married, I felt like all of those young women in 1969 who were bummed when Paul McCartney got married - but she made one little error. It had been since 1976 when some Western nations had last competed against the Eastern Bloc, but it had only been since 1980 that most of the Western nations competed against the bloc. Great Britain and France refused to joined President Carter's 1980 boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. In fact, West Germany was, I believe, the only European country in the boycott coalition.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 Very interesting question. And the answer is all of them. Fascinating topic (yes, I swam at that time and witnessed many young women give their lives to a sport to have them cheated of their just rewards). There is a movement (albeit small) led by Shirley Babashoff I believe, to redistribute those medals from 1976. Many of those East German swimming women have had unexplained cancers and birth defects to their children and they now know why. Even THEY are FOR redistributing the medals. Of course, the IOC won't even consider it.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 It really was a lose-lose situation for everyone in the long run. From what I understand, the East German women have been trying to get help from the gov't for what was done (good luck, right?) and are victims in this too. Just terrible.
Since I was a very young swimmer you were my inspiration! I went all the way to USC (from Barcelona, Spain) just to train with you. Thanks Janet for your friendship. I am a better swimmer, and a better person, just because of you!!!
I'm pole vaulting at 70. I started coaching H.S. last year, 2021, and this winter I'm starting practicing with one of the kids who wanted to get an early start outdoors in winter. I'm going for it. Thanks, Janet!
Janet set the standard for long distance swimming races. Katie Ladecky has upgraded the standards. Both are among
the all time greats and a proud Nation salutes them.
Wow, what an inspiration! As I'm headed to the pool at age 40, 20 years after my prime swimming years, I feel encouraged and inspired to believe in myself and to do this for me. Thank you, Janet! Thank you for being true to yourself and showing the world what you're made of.
Same, except I'm 38. Very inspirational.
Thanks for sharing your inspiring story of your swimming career! It captures the highs and lows of an elite athlete that most of us could only dream of being. Thanks for giving us a glimpse of what you went through! Really inspiring.
Wow. What an inspiration to get back for the joy of doing it..
Janet is amazing !
amazing.
wow, that's an epic talk...
I love Janet - she's my Olympic heartthrob, and when she got married, I felt like all of those young women in 1969 who were bummed when Paul McCartney got married - but she made one little error. It had been since 1976 when some Western nations had last competed against the Eastern Bloc, but it had only been since 1980 that most of the Western nations competed against the bloc. Great Britain and France refused to joined President Carter's 1980 boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games. In fact, West Germany was, I believe, the only European country in the boycott coalition.
At Montreal, how many of those East German women were cheating - unknowingly, of course, since they were given steroids and told they were vitamins?
@@stevenmaginnis1965 Very interesting question. And the answer is all of them. Fascinating topic (yes, I swam at that time and witnessed many young women give their lives to a sport to have them cheated of their just rewards). There is a movement (albeit small) led by Shirley Babashoff I believe, to redistribute those medals from 1976. Many of those East German swimming women have had unexplained cancers and birth defects to their children and they now know why. Even THEY are FOR redistributing the medals. Of course, the IOC won't even consider it.
@@purselmer5931 How sad.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 It really was a lose-lose situation for everyone in the long run. From what I understand, the East German women have been trying to get help from the gov't for what was done (good luck, right?) and are victims in this too. Just terrible.
Okay Dori
Now I wanna take my stuff and go to the pool!
i think this chick knows how to swim