The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread

[Bright Halo]

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

[eldar]

Blib said:

paulguitar said:

Jordie Barretts sock said:

Americans are still prudish about that word. I'm sure they view it like Brits view c--t. Which for Aussies is just part of their vocabulary

Which word is this?

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

A fan of sesquipedalianism, I see.

[jimmytheone]

Bright Halo said:

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

It was the 'tache, wasnt it

[Nethybridge]

jimmytheone said:

Bright Halo said:

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

It was the 'tache, wasnt it

Sad to hear, in the pre Lottery days when GB would be
lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.

RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Chris Dabbs former Editor of MCN.

[abzmike]

Nethybridge said:

jimmytheone said:

Bright Halo said:

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

It was the 'tache, wasnt it

Sad to hear, in the pre Lottery days when GB would be
lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.

RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.

Very sad... Can still rememeber him winning his gold.

[tvrolet]

abzmike said:

Nethybridge said:

jimmytheone said:

Bright Halo said:

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

It was the 'tache, wasnt it

Sad to hear, in the pre Lottery days when GB would be
lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.

RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.

Very sad... Can still remember him winning his gold.

I remember him well - always seemed a cool dude in the 70s, and won Sports Personality when it seemed to be personality based. A bit surprising as I’d guess he’s be super-fit and not too much older than me. Then again cancer doesn’t really discriminate.

[pingu393]

Mammasaid said:

David Wilkie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

That one has shocked me. Montreal 1976 is one of the first of my genuine early memories (not a memory of a memory).

[gshughes]

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

He was the cousin of one of my Mum’s cousins - one for the tenuous thread I know. I never met him, but did meet some of the other Wilkies - many of them were keen on swimming - up at 5am everyday before school for a couple of hours in the pool before school, and the same after school. I remember thinking sod that as a teenager, but I guess that is the reason I’m not an elite sportsman.

I was also reminded of this news item from a few years back - told off for swimming too fast in his 60s!

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/ex-olympian-david-wilkie-quits-local-pool-after-being-told-off-for-swimming-too-fast-607319

Edited by gshughes on Wednesday 22 May 19:53

[Sheets Tabuer]

probably fit as a butchers and still died at 70, shame, remember the commentator at the Olympics saying david wilkie and everyone cheered.

[miniman]

Quite why my wife’s parents would do this to a child is beyond me but nonetheless

[FourWheelDrift]

Could have been worse, could have been with Rolf Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t2...

[mikeiow]

Bright Halo said:

jimmytheone said:

David Wilkie, Olympian, aged 70
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...

1976 Olympic gold medalist. I remember watching it on tv and thinking what a cool bloke.
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.

Ah, indeed, quite the swimmer - interesting to read he remains the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. I suspect that particular combination may never be beaten again!
RIP.

[DodgyGeezer]

miniman said:

Quite why my wife’s parents would do this to a child is beyond me but nonetheless

The certificate or the haircut?

[pingu393]

mikeiow said:

Ah, indeed, quite the swimmer - interesting to read he remains the only person to have held British, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time. I suspect that particular combination may never be beaten again!
RIP.

I'm surprised Peaty hasn't. I wonder which eluded him.

[Cupramax]

DodgyGeezer said:

miniman said:

Quite why my wife’s parents would do this to a child is beyond me but nonetheless

The certificate or the haircut?

Came here for this I was also a victim of the 70’s basin haircut

[CooperD]

Charlie Colin of the American band Train. Their biggest hit was Drops Of Jupiter..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11v9p66wdo

[Nethybridge]

miniman said:

Quite why my wife’s parents would do this to a child is beyond me but nonetheless

Not quite sure what you're getting at.

[PRO5T]

CooperD said:

Charlie Colin of the American band Train. Their biggest hit was Drops Of Jupiter..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11v9p66wdo

What a mark to leave on the world, love that song and some of the west coast bands of around the same time.

[Hilts]

FourWheelDrift said:

Could have been worse, could have been with Rolf Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t2...

First comment: 'Just when you thought it was safe go back in the water.' rofl