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A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event. At the highest level, that would be when one nation wins all the medals in the Summer Olympics Athletics. [1] Many Olympic sports or events do not allow three entries into a single event in the Olympics, making a sweep impossible.
Silver medallist Britain's Adam Burgess celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony after the men's canoe single final of the canoe slalom competition at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium ...
Peter Norman is the man sharing the medal podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics when they raised their black-gloved fists to the sky to protest racial inequality as "The ...
Gold medalist Tommie Smith (center) and bronze medalist John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200 m race at the 1968 Summer Olympics; both wear Olympic Project for Human Rights badges. Peter Norman (silver medalist, left) from Australia also wears an OPHR badge in solidarity with Smith and Carlos.
John Wesley Carlos (born June 5, 1945) is an American former track and field athlete and professional football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he displayed the Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith.
Photos of North and South Korean table tennis players posing for a selfie on the medal podium have gotten people across the globe talking, with some hailing it as a show of rare cross border ...
A podium at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The medallists of the ladies' single figure skating : Mao Asada (left, silver ), Yuna Kim (center, gold ), Joannie Rochette (right, bronze ). Podiums were first used at the 1930 British Empire Games (now Commonwealth Games ) in Hamilton, Ontario and subsequently during the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake ...
Grant's gold-medal win with Craig in Paris was years in the making. The duo came in fourth in the Tokyo Games, where they fell short of the bronze by just one-hundredth of a second in their ...