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Ledecky won her second gold medal of the Olympics and her seventh of all time in the 800-meter freestyle. Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row ...
Nivea (German pronunciation: ⓘ, [1] [2] stylized as NIVEA) is a German personal care brand that specializes in skin and body care. It is owned by the Hamburg-based company Beiersdorf Global AG. This was the origin of the Eucerin brand. Nivea comes from the Latin adjective niveus, nivea, niveum, meaning "snow-white". [3]
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
Medal totals in this table are current through the 2024 Summer Olympics, and all changes in medal standings due to doping cases and medal redistributions up to 11 August 2024 are taken into account. As of completion of the 2022 Winter Olympics , 12 National Olympic Committees have participated on a standalone basis in all 24 Winter Olympic Games.
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have been awarded in the arts, for example, by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts , usually as a symbol of ...
The first-time Olympian won a silver medal in the women’s gymnastics balance beam final Aug. 5. ... who won gold, and Manila Esposito, who took bronze, Zhou, 18, smiled and posed for photographs ...
From left to right: Raven Saunders, Gong Lijiao, and Valerie Adams won silver, gold, and bronze respectively during the women's shot put event. [23] Neisi Dajomes won the gold medal in the women's 76 kg weightlifting competition, becoming Ecuador's first female gold medalist. [24] Damian Warner won the gold medal in the men's decathlon. [25]
Chiles said she lost her "love of the sport" after the ruling. Jordan Chiles was emotional talking about her Paris Olympics experience in her first interview since she was stripped of her bronze ...