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He was an average-looking guy with thick legs, sunglasses, khaki shorts and a white polo shirt. He looked tense and lost in the bleachers of the main Olympic pool, and Friday night before the competition began he got in a dispute when the ushers wanted to see his event credential. I’m Mark Spitz,” he told them. This didn’t look like the swashbuckling, mustachioed swimmer who won seven gold medals in 1972. He seemed more like a pushy U.S. tourist. But he was, in fact, Mark Spitz. And once this was established, he was shown his seat and posed, smiling, for pictures with the ushers.
