Thailand at the Olympics Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the 2012 Games in London, with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing and women's weightlifting. Thai athletes have won a total of 33 medals. Thailand's most successful Games to date were the 2004 Games in Athens, where they won eight medals, three of them were gold. The National Olympic Committee for Thailand was created in 1948 and recognized in 1950. According to official data of the International Olympic Committee. This is a list of people who have won two or
Mark Spitz the 2008 Summer Games, at the same age as Spitz. After Spitz retired from competitive swimming at age 22, he was managed by the William Morris Agency, which tried to get him into show business while his name was still familiar due to his athletic success. A poster featuring Spitz wearing his swimsuit and seven gold medals made him the hottest pin-up since Betty Grable. In Spitz's TV debut, he appeared as himself in a skit as a dentist on a Bob Hope special that aired October 5, 1972. In 1973–74, Spitz appeared on TV's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny