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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel: Swimming: Men's 100 meter breaststroke: July 26 Gold: Pablo Morales: Swimming: Men's 100 meter butterfly
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.
The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players was a ten-part television series that set out to determine the top 100 greatest NFL players of all time. It was presented by the NFL Network in 2010.
Gregory Efthimios Louganis (/ l uː ˈ ɡ eɪ n ɪ s /; [1] born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver who won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics on the springboard and platform. He is the only man and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
List of athletes from Maryland A – M; List of athletes from Maryland N – Z; List of members of the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame; List of sports-related people from Mississippi; List of athletes from Montana
Famous Black athletes span all sports, from football and basketball to tennis and gymnastics. This article focuses on 10 whose excellence made them household names and changed their sports forever.
In 1999, the Associated Press placed him third on its list of the top athletes of the century, following Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan. [129] ESPN ranked Thorpe seventh on their list of best North American athletes of the century. [130] Thorpe was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963, one of seventeen players in the charter class ...