List of Olympic Medalists in Swimming (men)

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If with too credent ear you list his songs,
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“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

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