Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2022. We are republishing it as part of our fall coverage. BLOOMINGTON – Fifty years ago, there was a before ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Mark Spitz just can't get away from Michael Phelps. They're regularly coupled in cyberspace, and by next year they could be forever linked as the greatest swimmers in history.

With the Pan American Games scheduled to start this weekend, it seemed like an appropriate time to feature the launch of a legend. At the 1967 edition of the Pan Am Games, Mark Spitz made his name ...

That's the million dollar question, especially for Speedo, which will pay Phelps that whopping bonus if he can match Spitz's 1972 Munich Olympics haul of seven gold medals. Although the 2004 Athens ...

The former swimmer said it was “like an out-of-body experience” to win seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games and then learn that terrorists had attacked Israelis at the Olympic Village.

It’s been more than a half-century since Mark Spitz dazzled at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where he captured seven gold medals – all in world-record time. And earlier this month, Spitz and his ...

Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Mark Spitz is suing Procter & Gamble, claiming the consumer products giant failed to obtain his permission to include him in marketing materials for Crest toothpaste, ...

Swimmer Mark Spitz, then an 18-year-old high school graduate from Santa Clara, Calif., returned from the 1968 Olympics with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze—and a feeling of failure. Goaded ...

The question Michael Phelps hates to answer keeps getting asked. Can you break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at the Beijing Games in August? It's a fair question, considering Phelps won six ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Jeré Longman is a sports reporter and a best-selling author. He covers a variety of international sports, primarily Olympic ones. He has worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas ...