The birth of a legend! Born in Freidorf, Weissmuller’s parents were Hungarian nationals, who came to America when he just a toddler at 3. Later on, to participate in the Olympics, he publicized that ...

Odds are there’s not a race in your immediate future, but that means this is a great time to work on the little things. While you’re less focused on fitness, give yourself little areas to improve on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1924, a 20-year-old Chicagoan fibbed his way into the Olympics and won three gold medals at the swimming competition in Paris. Johnny Weissmuller said he ...

Long before he prowled the celluloid jungles, Johnny (“Tarzan”) Weissmuller was a national hero. To swimming idolaters of the 1920s, the faces of Babe Ruth, Red Grange and Paavo Nurmi paled before the ...

We are talking Race of the Century, and it happened in Indiana. Not cars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, sprinters on IUPUI’s track, swimmers at the Natatorium, or harness racing featuring Dan ...

Johnny Weissmuller, alias Tarzan of the Apes, taught me how to swim. I must give my Dad some credit too. Once upon sunny summer my father pulled some bulrushes from the edge of the Shannon, bound them ...

A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

Piscine Molitor, once one of Paris's most fashionable public swimming pools, reopened on Monday 85 years after Parisians first entered its tiers of art deco cubicles. This time, though, it's part of a ...