A century ago, before he became the most famous cinematic Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller was the world’s greatest swimmer. Provided the 20-year-old could meet expectations at the 1924 Paris Olympics, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1924, a 20-year-old Chicagoan fibbed his way into the Olympics and won three gold medals at the swimming competition in Paris. Johnny Weissmuller said he ...

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 ...

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Johnny Weissmuller, an Olympic swimming gold medalist of the 1920s dominated the role in the 1930s and 40s as Tarzan and made it his own. To several generations who got to know him both in the movies ...