Quotes
Quotes from two Colorado Olympic swimmers
Amy Van Dyken "I really hadn't swum for a year,'' she said. "I had tried it. Did not like it. That was when I felt the most paralyzed I've ever felt. I could do anything I wanted to do in the water, I can't really do that anymore .
Missy Franklin "A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun."
Excerpt from Murder in the Rockies
Sweating and breathing heavily, Coyle conquered the modest hill and paused before he waged war with the ridge. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked off into the distance. In case anyone was watching, he hoped they might think he was admiring the scenery instead of struggling to catch his breath. He had to admit the scenery was magnificent. Snowcapped peaks rose above the snowy pines on the slopes below. Snow, snow, everywhere pristine, unmarked snow. It looked to Coyle to be the inspiration of many landscape paintings. But the paintings did not do justice to the real thing.
Kick and glide…kick and glide, the ridge was relatively flat and he was starting to get the rhythm of propelling himself on skis. Coyle could see that some people might actually find cross-country skiing to be fun. A distant rumble of thunder alerted Coyle to reality. One seldom sees electric storms or hears thunder in the winter. The rumble became louder. The roar came not from thunder, but from tons of snow crashing down the mountainside. Coyle looked at the slope above, and saw a wall of snow coming at him. Even if Coyle had thought to kick and glide, he couldn’t have moved fast enough to escape the avalanche.
An Early Colorado Olympian
Quotes from two Colorado Olympic swimmers
Amy Van Dyken "I really hadn't swum for a year,'' she said. "I had tried it. Did not like it. That was when I felt the most paralyzed I've ever felt. I could do anything I wanted to do in the water, I can't really do that anymore .
Missy Franklin "A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun."
Excerpt from Murder in the Rockies
Sweating and breathing heavily, Coyle conquered the modest hill and paused before he waged war with the ridge. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked off into the distance. In case anyone was watching, he hoped they might think he was admiring the scenery instead of struggling to catch his breath. He had to admit the scenery was magnificent. Snowcapped peaks rose above the snowy pines on the slopes below. Snow, snow, everywhere pristine, unmarked snow. It looked to Coyle to be the inspiration of many landscape paintings. But the paintings did not do justice to the real thing.
Kick and glide…kick and glide, the ridge was relatively flat and he was starting to get the rhythm of propelling himself on skis. Coyle could see that some people might actually find cross-country skiing to be fun. A distant rumble of thunder alerted Coyle to reality. One seldom sees electric storms or hears thunder in the winter. The rumble became louder. The roar came not from thunder, but from tons of snow crashing down the mountainside. Coyle looked at the slope above, and saw a wall of snow coming at him. Even if Coyle had thought to kick and glide, he couldn’t have moved fast enough to escape the avalanche.
An Early Colorado Olympian
Glenn Morris was a U.S. track and field athlete. He won a gold medal in the Olympic decathlon in 1936, setting new world and Olympic records.
Everyone has heard of Jesse Owens and his great accomplishments in the 1936 Olympics, but there was another American hero at those games. Glenn Morris won a Gold Medal in the Decathlon.
Morris was born on his family's homestead farm near Simla, Colorado, the second of seven children. A natural athlete whose record in the 220 hurdles stood for forty years at his high school, Morris entered Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) in 1930. He became a star athlete for the school, excelling in several sports and being named All-American in track and field. Morris broke his own world record, and the Olympic record, in the Berlin games, with a decathlon score of 7,900 points. It was said that Adolf Hitler never left his seat while Morris was competing, and that the Germans thereafter offered Morris $50,000 to stay in Germany and appear in sports films, an offer Morris refused.
Morris become the fourth Olympic athlete to play Tarzan. He appeared in only one Tarzan film, Tarzan's Revenge (1938). Reviews for the film cited both the silliness of the production and the exaggerated acting of the theatrically untrained Morris (though Variety called him "a highly acceptable Tarzan"). After only one minor additional film role, in the 1938 comedy "Hold That Co-ed," Morris left the movie business forever.
He played four games with the Detroit Lions football team, before injury curtailed this new career, He subsequently served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in the Pacific during World War II, commanding amphibious-assault landing craft. Reportedly wounded, Morris was treated for psychological-trauma issues and spent several months in a naval hospital.
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