The 2024 Noteworthy Deaths Thread
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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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
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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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
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lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.
RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.
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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
![wink](/inc/images/wink.gif)
lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.
RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.
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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
![wink](/inc/images/wink.gif)
lucky to scrape an olympic gold or silver.
RIP David, in the best sense of the word, a true amateur.
Mammasaid said:
That one has shocked me. Montreal 1976 is one of the first of my genuine early memories (not a memory of a memory).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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
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
Could have been worse, could have been with Rolf Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t2...
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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3gg...
He opened the swimming pool at the leisure centre attached to my old high school.
RIP.
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.RIP.
Charlie Colin of the American band Train. Their biggest hit was Drops Of Jupiter..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11v9p66wdo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11v9p66wdo
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.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11v9p66wdo
FourWheelDrift said:
Could have been worse, could have been with Rolf Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t2...
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