Here´s a funny true story from another international swim competition years ago:
Come to think of it about these new swim suits, glued to the body. The first swimmer in the world at an international swim contest, who shaved all his hair from his head, his chin, under his arms, on his chest, arms and legs was Don Scolander another USA swimmer. He wrote a book about his preparations, about how he had the second best time up to the finals in the 100 yards freestyle for men.
Now, swimmers are like other elite athletes up to the finals, they have butterflies in the stomach, everything you have trained for during perhaps 4 years, has to work, how to breeath air, the start jump must be perfect and the salto at the end of the 50 yards pool perfect, and they all are anxious to hear the start signal go. But before we see them come in beside the pool they always meet before the finals in the toilet, simply to pee.
Now Don Scolander had the second best time and was going to swim on lane 5, the best time a French swimmer had, so he had the favourite lane nr. 4. The French swimmer was almost a head shorter than Don Scolander. The audience and everyone in the swim stadium had never seen a male swimmer with absolute no hair on his head nor body.
So while in the peeing room, Don Scolander stood right beside the French swimmer, leaned over and looked over the shoulder of the French swimmer to his "little willie", and in english said: "Is that all you have?", obviously referring to the penis of the French swimmer.
They all came in to the pool took each their places behind the start blocks, stepped up and waited for the start signal and jumped in. After 75 yards, having done the salto after the first 50 yards the French swimmer suddenly collapsed in the pool, went under the water, huge panic at the swim stadium, because no one knew what had happened and Don Scolander won the 100 yards freestyle finals.
In his book years later he wrote: In every sport you have to have done anything possible physically and mentally to be 100 percent prepared the best before a competition, but often it´s not enough. I know, what I said to the French swimmer at the toilet, before we came in to the pool, was not fair play, but I won.
This is a true story.
We all know for instance in boxing, where the two competitors meet at the center of the ring, shaking hands, while the refferee tell them about fair play and not to hit the other guy under the belt (lower than the stomach) and respect the rules. We also know from boxing, while the refferee is talking to the two boxers, they look at each other "if eyes could kill" and so on. Muhammed Ali, while at the top of his career, would talk in highly condescending words to his oponent, call him dirty names, laugh at him or anything else to disturb his concentration - excactly the same thing Don Scolander did before the 100 yards freestyle finals in the toilet.
So he won, but not only because he had shaved all his hair from his head and his body, but simply by disturbing the focus, the concentration of the fortcoming finals talking about the penis of the French swimmer: "Is that all you have?".
