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Carl Lewis 100 meter Gold Medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angles California
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Carl Lewis 100 meter Gold Medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angles California
Carl Lewis 100 meter Gold Medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angles California
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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.
The 1992 Olympics Basketball “Dream Team” led by Coach Chuck Daly, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, Christian Laettner, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, John Stockton The U.S. team averaged an Olympic record of 117.3 points a game, and won by an average of 43.8 points. Charles Barkley was the team scoring leader but it was Jordan who led the U.S. in the games against the harder rival and silver medalist Croatia. He scored 21 points in the first round game and 22 in the gold medal contest. MJ also leaded the tournament with 37 steals.
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.
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).