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William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets because he was a virtual unknown ...
After capturing the pommel horse national title at the 2021 U.S. Gymnastics Championships, Nedoroscik came up short in his quest to make that year’s Olympic team (the Games were pushed back a ...
Louis Tewanima (1888 – January 18, 1969), also known as Tsökahovi Tewanima and Lewis Tewanima, [1] was an American two-time Olympic distance runner and silver medalist in the 10,000 meter run in 1912. [2] He was a Hopi Indian and ran for the Carlisle Indian School where he was a teammate of Jim Thorpe.
In 2019, Bednarek became the youngest and only American athlete to run sub-20 and sub-45 times in 200-meter and 400-meter outdoor events on the same day, competing during the NJCAA Division I ...
A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon ).
With our memories and attention spans now regulated by YouTube shorts and Instagram reels, forgetting what Simone Biles just did at the Summer Olympics may extend beyond a 45 second clip.
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Ellison Myers Brown (September 22, 1913 – August 23, 1975), [1] widely known as Tarzan Brown, a direct descendant of the last acknowledged royal family of the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island (also known as Deerfoot amongst his people), was a two-time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1936 (2:33:40) and 1939 (2:28:51) and 1936 U.S. Olympian.