I don't follow the Olympics, but Tom watches some events. So he came to tell me last night about the upset in the men's diving competition. Going into the final round, China's Zhou Luxin looked like a shoo-in, but he messed up his dive, and Australian Matthew Mitcham did a spectacular job on his, erasing Zhou Luxin's 30-point lead and taking home the gold.
The spelling of surnames was very flexible until fairly recently, so there is at least a good chance that Matthew Mitcham is related to the Mitchum side of the family if we look back far enough.By the way, Michael Dodd (not me, obviously) won a silver medal for men's beach volleyball in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Who knew?
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