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Hezly Rivera, a 16-year-old from Oradell, is making her Olympic debut as a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team. Hezly Rivera at 2024 Olympics: Follow the NJ native's run with U.S ...
The 25-year-old Nedoroscik, who got his start at Sterling Academy of Gymnastics, earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team with a splendid performance on the pommel horse, his signature apparatus, at ...
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 ...
Simone won the all-around competition on the first day of U.S. selection camp and locked in a spot on the world gymnastics championship team.
Ashton Taylor Locklear (born January 13, 1998) is a retired American artistic gymnast from North Carolina.She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and is a two-time national champion on the uneven bars (2014, 2016).
Sunisa "Suni" Lee (/ s uː ˈ n iː s ə ˈ s uː n i / soo-NEE-sə SOO-nee; née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) [1] [2] is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.
Suni Lee competed in the Tokyo Olympics and won a gold medal for best all-around athlete at the time, in 2021. Last year, she began suffering from kidney ailments that hindered her ability to train.
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 ).