By a Moustache

There has been a lot of buzz this summer about Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, beating Mark Spitz's record of seven in one Olympic games set in Munich in 1972. I don't think I'd heard of Mark Spitz before this summer, but I've heard his name about 300 times in the last four days. And it is always in the same sentence as "Michael Phelps." All of a sudden I got the urge to see what this guy looked like.

I couldn't believe what I found:



Okay, he's kind of hot here:




But, seriously, what's with the porn stash?



Mark Spitz won each of his 1972 Olympic races handily without wearing a swim cap or shaving his pits. Quite a difference from this summer's races which are won by hundredths of seconds and too-long nose hairs probably make a noticeable difference let alone facial hair.

NY Times has an interesting article in which Spitz and Phelps are compared. Phelps would have beaten Spitz by half a lap in each event, but who knows what the difference in pools, swimwear, and a razor would make in the comparing of the two.