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I found this article about Mark Spitz on that yahoo link. It's quite interesting and sad at the same time. It seems nobody remembered to bring him to Beijing.

Spitz, once the star, upset over Beijing snub

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"I never got invited. You don't go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am," Spitz told AFP in Hong Kong.

"I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost -- it is."

Maybe they didn't want his ego to take over the events?

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Now a stockbroker and motivational speaker, Spitz

Spitz sounds like he needs to give himself a pep talk.