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Gold: Summer Sanders: Swimming: Women's 200 meter butterfly: July 31 Gold: Gail Devers: Athletics: Women's 100 meters: August 1 Gold: Jackie Joyner-Kersee: Athletics: Heptathlon: August 2 Gold: Joe Jacobi Scott Strausbaugh: Canoeing: Slalom C-2: August 2 Gold: Trent Dimas: Gymnastics: Horizontal bar: August 2 Gold: Mike Conley: Athletics: Men's ...
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.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she became the oldest cycling gold medalist, when she won the women's road time trial race, defending her gold medal from Beijing 2008. She repeated her success at the 2016 Summer Olympics , winning third gold in a row and setting a new record.
Team USA has dominated men's 5x5 basketball at the Olympics, winning 16 of 20 gold medals since the event made its debut as a medal sport in 1936. ... Complete list of medalists at Summer Games.
It includes titles won in 1896 and 1900, before gold medals were awarded for first place. All record-holders have competed at Summer Games rather than Winter Games. Michael Phelps, holder of the record for the most Olympic gold medals, with one of his medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Former Olympic gold medalist swimmer Cullen Jones poses in the Life Time outdoor pool on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Jones earned two Olympic gold and two Olympic silver medals and represented Team ...
The 1948 London Summer Olympics marked the first time that the Olympic Games were broadcast on television with a more widespread coverage. However, television sets were still not widely available to the public at this time. Gold medal game in basketball at the 1952 Olympics between the US and the USSR. The Americans won, 36–25.
Seven-time gold medalist Katie Ledecky has competed in three Olympics, making the 2024 competition her fourth time in the games. When she was just 15 years old, the swimmer won her first gold ...