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HEADLESS SKATER SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS
$30.00 – $225.00
HEADLESS SKATER SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS
HEADLESS SKATER SALT LAKE CITY OLYMPICS
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Available Sizes | 8×10 Matted, 8×10 Matted & Framed, 16×20 Matted, 16×20 Matted & Framed |
Year & City | 2002 Salt Lake City Utah Olympics |
Michael Johnson is the only male athlete in history to win both the 200 meter dash and 400 meterdash events at the same Olympics, a feat he accomplished at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Johnson is also the only man to successfully defend his Olympic title in the 400 m. Aside from his Olympic success Johnson accumulated eight gold medals at World Championships, and is thus tied with Carl Lewis for the second most gold medals won by a runner (second only to Usain Bolt).
Jamaican runner, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, defeats USA champion Carmelita Jeter by 3 hundredth of a second in the Women’s 100meter in the London Olympics. Veronica Campbell Brown, from Jamaica, took the Bronze medal.
Great Britain 10,000 meter gold medal champion, Mo Farah, gets a kiss from his wife after winning the gold medal, which is caught by the press cameras.
The US women’s gymnastics team won its first gold medal. Shannon Miller of the United States won the gold medal on the balance beam event, the first time an American gymnast had won an individual gold medal in a non-boycotted Olympic games.