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It’s been a century since Johnny Weissmuller won the first national title of his illustrious career, and nearly 100 years since his first world record. The legacy of the man who would become Tarzan ...

Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984) was born in the Austro-Hungarian town of Freidorf. Weissmuller’s time in Freidorf was brief, as his parents emigrated to the United States in 1905. They briefly settled ...

Aryna Sabalenka should have one major concern after losing to Elena Rybakina in the US Open final Aryna Sabalenka’s US Open campaign ended in misery on Saturday evening. Elena Rybakina defeated the ...

Johnny Weissmuller was really famous. He was so famous, he was pictured on the album cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” right behind and between Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning Olympic gold medals for the United States — there was Tarzan. Yes Tarzan, the fictional literary and film character who was raised by apes in the ...