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Victor Davis. Canada's fastest and one of the world's best swimmers doesn't like getting wet. But the 'bad boy' is in the pool to be a winner
Victor Davis. Canada's fastest and one of the world's best swimmers doesn't like getting wet. But the 'bad boy' is in the pool to be a winner

Victor Davis. Canada's fastest and one of the world's best swimmers doesn't like getting wet. But the 'bad boy' is in the pool to be a winner

Date1/11/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Victor Davis. Canada's fastest and one of the world's best swimmers doesn't like getting wet. But the 'bad boy' is in the pool to be a winner.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0042260F
      Cool way to beat the heat. Lifeguard Peter Diamantakos keeps close watch on swimmers at Joseph Piccinni pool on St. Clair Ave. W. near Lansdown Ave. yesterday
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      Russell, Steve
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      Still a hero: Cliff Lumsden is surrounded by admiring student swimmers in this 1973 picture taken at an Etobicoke pool
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      Lumsdon, Cliff
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      'Only human eye focuses faster', Minolta Canada's Ken Tatemichi shows off its new Maxxum 7000 System - an amateur's dream based on the world's fastest automatic focusing 35mm camera
      'Only human eye focuses faster', Minolta Canada's Ken Tatemichi shows off its new Maxxum 7000 System - an amateur's dream based on the world's fastest automatic focusing 35mm camera
      Loek, Dick
      1/28/1985
      You've got it, Getting a bird's-eye view of her synchronized swimmers, Joan Manwaring, and instructor with the Olympium Synchronized Swimming Club use(...)
      You've got it, Getting a bird's-eye view of her synchronized swimmers, Joan Manwaring, and instructor with the Olympium Synchronized Swimming Club use(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      2/8/1980
      Derek Sanderson, puck world's bad boy, brought out the best in Peter Gzowski
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      Griffin, Doug
      3/17/1978
      That's my boy: Victor Davis, the world 200 metres breaststroke champion, is hugged by his girlfriend Cheryl Oberle at Toronto International Airport on his return from the world championships
      That's my boy: Victor Davis, the world 200 metres breaststroke champion, is hugged by his girlfriend Cheryl Oberle at Toronto International Airport on his return from the world championships
      Bock, Tony
      8/9/1982
      Seventy-Two Swimmers plunge in water at 58 degrees for 15-mile marathon, After two postponements that have tried swimmers' nerves and kept Toronto peo(...)
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      Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto, Ont.)
      8/31/1934
      Lake swimmers honored. Honored by Metro Council yesterday, Lake Ontario swimmers Angela Kondrak (left) and Cindy Nicholas hold citations given them. A(...)
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      Goode, Jeff
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      He made it: The swimmer's aunt, Lidia Rietta, hugs him and wraps him in a towel while coach and marathon swimmer Vicki Keith looks on
      He made it: The swimmer's aunt, Lidia Rietta, hugs him and wraps him in a towel while coach and marathon swimmer Vicki Keith looks on
      Costa, Carlos
      7/23/1993
      Swim stars meet on Friday. Univesity of Michigan swimmers, American intercollegiate champions, invade Canada for the first time this season when they (...)
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      2/6/1935
      Quick: Donn Reynolds got his wish to go down in history as a great yodeller when this year's Guinness Book Of World Records acknowledged him to be the world's fastest yodeller
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      Reynolds, Donn
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      On their marks: Canadian sprinters Angelia Issajenko and Ben Johnson, the world's fastest man, will be on hand to help open the Scarborough-Indianapolis Peace Games Friday
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      Eglinton, Rick
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