David Gilman- American Luger and Sprint Canoer, 1984

Jesus. Keep em coming, OP. These have been great.

Whoa. Did he at least go right from the Olympics to a successful career in gay porn? I’ll be very disappointed to find out he became a lawyer or a doctor after that. ☹️

No porn. He didn’t win either Olympics either.

A few years ago at an Olympians reunion held in Vegas. Hes in the middle.

He was a nerd before beefing up.

Holy shit. What a beauty.

Glasses = nerd?

Back then, yes r11

Looks like a J. C. Leyendecker illustration come to life.

R9 Dahmer-esque.

Wow!!!!

He still looks fine today but he was godlike

God, aging is cruel. I am often very attracted to men around his current age, but he's just not a good looking older man.

But he was perfection young. Perfection.

Wow. He participated in both the Winter and Summer Olympics? That's impressive.

Back then, they used to hold them both in the same year, too, until the 1990s.

That ‘nerd’ photo at R9 is hotter to me than the other photos. Imagine being his roommate at college?!

70 next year

He was beautiful. I hope people got to appreciate the body, male or female.

A real beauty

I’d lick his shitter.

When I think of a "man's man", he's what I think of.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ nipples!

Entirely overdressed.

Check out his friend with the booty chin!

More of the unidentified friend, this time with VPL.

^ Dan Schnurrenberger.

David was an army boy????

That's an OMG if I ever saw one,

Timeless beauty.

The OP's b&w photo was one in a brilliant series of photos that Bruce Weber did for the 1984 LA Summer Olympics that appeared in (I think ) INTERVIEW. I kept those photos in a picture file for decades though eventually lost them.

Weber managed to make every single athlete he shot god-like, even the ordinary ones, though Gilman's was surely the hottest. For my money the lack of color actually made them far sexier than the color photos of Gilman I'm seeing here. If anyone has access to more of those photos of other athletes, please link them here.

R33 I still have that issue. Mitch Gaylord, Steve Lundquist. Yum. Best photography of a national Olympic team since Leni Riefenstahl.

[quote]The OP's b&w photo was one in a brilliant series of photos that Bruce Weber did for the 1984 LA Summer Olympics that appeared in (I think ) INTERVIEW. I kept those photos in a picture file for decades though eventually lost them.

That makes sense - there is a Tom of Finland aesthetic about the photo.

R28 he isn’t unidentified and he is his colleague he’s competing with at the Olympics. They are working together. Not besties.

1984 was the year Olympic water polo team member Terry Schroeder posed full frontal for the male statue that stands outside the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Terry did not see the completed statue until the public unveiling and he was mortified when he saw it.

R37 . . .

R34 you literally saved that from the internet…

Robert Graham was the sculptor —later Angelica’s husband.

[quote]Terry did not see the completed statue until the public unveiling and he was mortified when he saw it.

Why was he mortified?

R41, Because his genitals were exposed to thousands of people, which he must have known would happen.

He said he turned beet red after the unveiling and hurriedly walked away.

They shaved pubes forty years ago, or was that an artistic choice?

He was later proud of it—but he used to take a lot of shit from his water polo buddies…

That artwork has stood the test of time —a lovely work.

Yes, he has nothing to be ashamed of. That's a beautiful body, dick, and balls. If only we could see the ass.

You can—it’s out there, in the open!

Pity it wasn't David they'd sculpted instead

Terry isn't half as hot as David Gilman

R43 idiot, many athletes have always shaved off their body hair. It makes keeping clean easier for them. Especially athletes who deal with water.

Artistic…water polo players don’t usually shave…different from swimmers. Their mileage may vary.

R50 as someone who played sports I can tell you that’s wrong. But I will let you lie some more. Always lying. No school. No job. Living off mommy. Having to lie his way through the internet

You played sports? Well then. But are you a sculptor?—are you the artist Robert Graham…then your mileage may vary. Get it now?

Doubt it, R52.

Here’s the top rated water polo team in the US—I see hair there…as stated, mileage varies (unlike in swimming).

Now that’s settled, back to the campers, kayakers, rowers and David.

Canoers*

I think this is another Bruce Weber photo for the '84 games...

Did Bruce Weber photograph the breakout star of Los Angeles 84, Mary Decker Slaney?

Tribute to the pornstache era for sure!

There were definitely women Weber photographed for that series, and also some older coaches, women and men. All god-like.

There was just something about the way Weber could light and photograph skin in b&w that was unearthly.

^He was okay.

R39 What was the Internet going to do to it?

But…no kidding? Do you expect me to go through a box somewhere for this place? Literally.

Water polo? SHRINKAGE!

[quote]God, aging is cruel. I am often very attracted to men around his current age, but he's just not a good looking older man.

Funny, I saw his image at R8 and thought he was still very good looking for a 70 year old man. Still looks fit, too. Good for him!

Also, OP, love your threads, keep 'em coming!

The artistic decision to sculpt those Olympic torsos without body or pubic hair has absolutely nothing to do with the models being shaved down in real life, for their spot or otherwise.

They may or may not have been, but the sculptor certainly didn’t need them to be. Some of you gents are so incredibly literal minded.

^^ sport

Actually—I don’t recall anyone saying that…it was more of a side discussion based on the fact of the male’s real identity.

😍😍😍😍

Those nipples are big enough for a zip code.

r9 looks familiar

R23, must you be so uncouth and disgusting?