Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning multiple Olympic gold medals in swimming for the United States — there was Tarzan. Yes Tarzan, the fictional literary and film character who was raised by apes in the African jungle.
FILE - Olympic hero and film actor Johnny Weissmuller is pictured in front of a photo of himself as Tarzan, June 29, 1971. Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films was a swimming superstar in France 100 years ago. FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. Weissmuller played Tarzan in the films but was a swimming superstar in France 100 years ago.
Weissmuller’s swimming brought fame, and his virile image got him cast in the “Tarzan the Ape Man” film in 1932 — the first of his 12 Tarzan films.— akin to a yodel — and what the character’s creator Edgar Rice Burroughs described as “the victory cry of the bull ape.”Biles, Osaka and Phelps spoke up about mental health.
Weissmuller was selected in 1950 by The Associated Press as the “Greatest Swimmer of the Half Century” and made famous the American crawl stroke with his chest high out of the water.Hollywood producer Bernard Hyman thought Weissmuller’s name was too long, but was told he was famous as an Olympian. The name shouldn’t be changed, he was warned.
The family immigrated to the United States when he was an infant and eventually settled in Chicago in 1908. He contracted polio as a 9-year-old and took up swimming as a remedy. Some of his first swimming lessons were in Lake Michigan.
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