Days after he suffered a severe hamstring injury in the 200 m trials and did not win any medals at the Beijing Olympics. His performance of 9.71 seconds to win the 100 m silver medal in the 2009 World Championships is the fastest non-winning time for the event. In July 2013, it was ...
the world. Originally trained in judo, after becoming the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Rousey began to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. She then went on to set the record for the most UFC title defences by a woman, ...
Why She Lost Them: Former world champion track and field star Marion Jones won three gold medals and two bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Rumors started to circulate that Jones used steroids following an interview with one of her trainers, Victor Conte, who told ABC'...
Davis was the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961, while playing running back for Syracuse. He looked to be headed into a promising NFL career; he was taken No. 1 in the draft by the Redskins, and was later traded to the Browns. Sadly, Davis was diagnosed wit...
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Adolf Hitler attempted to use the Games as a showcase for his Third Reich and the supposed superiority of the Aryan race. Jesse Owens turned that theory on its head right quick by winning four gold medals in the 100m sprint, the long jump, 200m sprint,...
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I can be that mom — that cool mom," she said. "Just to be able to compete at the Olympic Games and to hit four events, do the best that I did was something that will last for me forever. It'll just be cool to be able to tell my kids one day that I went to the Olympics...
The Matchup:With the United States steam rolling through the Olympics and basketball on the global stage, David Stern declared, rather inexplicably, that he'd like to ban NBA players over the age of 23 from playing in the Olympics? Why? Because he couldn't profit off of it. Sternproposed...