what sport did greg louganis compete in
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Greg Louganis is a four-time Olympic diving champion and is considered the greatest diver of all time. Greg Louganis is a four-time Olympic diving champion and is considered the greatest diver of all time. Silver at 16. Greg Louganis started competitive diving as a 10 year old. He took part in his first Olympic Games, the 1976 Montreal Games, aged just 16 and claimed silver in the 10m platform. Four years later, he was firmly established as the world’s best diver, but the United States’ boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games meant that he had to wait another four years to taste Olympic gold.
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Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor apologizes, pleads guilty to criminal sexual conduct Larry Nassar, the former acclaimed USA Gymnastics team doctor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and admitted in a Michigan court to using his position to sexually abuse underage girls.
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- U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte won one medal at the Rio Olympics, a gold in the men's 800-meter freestyle relay. (Patrick B. Kraemer / European Pressphoto Agency) The extent of the property damage Ryan Lochte and three of his fellow U.S. Olympic swimmers caused to a gas station eight days ago might have been exaggerated by Rio de Janeiro police, according to a report by USA Today.
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'Johnny Weir's outfit for gold medal!' Former figure skater wins fans with flamboyant wardrobe during his Sochi commentary Former figure skater wins fans with flamboyant wardrobe during his Sochi commentary Two-time Olympian Johnny Weir, 29, is working as a commentator during Sochi's figure skating events for NBC Twitter is abuzz with support for his commentary and his wardrobe choices which have included over-sized jewelery, sharp suits and ruffled shirts
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- Only the 1980 American boycott of the Moscow Games prevented Louganis from piling more gold onto his Olympic resume. Even when he hit his head on the springboard executing a dive in 1988, Louganis still won an Olympic championship. That dive also caused him some concern for another reason. At the time, Louganis secretly knew he was HIV-positive.
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Did Louganis Act Properly? : Diving: Some wonder whether he should have revealed he was HIV-positive during '88 Games. It is a question being asked since Louganis, who won four gold medals in two Olympics, revealed this week that he has AIDS and was HIV-positive at the Seoul Olympics when he hit his head and bled during the preliminaries of the three-meter springboard competition.
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Going for the Gold: Lowell Bailey Lowell Bailey competes in the men's biathlon 20-kilometer individual final at the Torino Games in 2006. (Photo: Sandra Behne/Bongarts/Getty Images) The Going for the Gold series kicked off our One-Year-Countdown to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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- Nine of the 12 players on the 1960 Olympic team eventually played in the NBA. Four-Robertson, Lucas, Bellamy and Terry Dischinger – became Rookies of the Year. By Bill Koch, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati.com — July 31, 2010. There was no such thing as a Dream Team in 1960. When the U.S. Olympic basketball team traveled to Rome, it was merely a sports team on a mission to win a gold medal for its country. It accomplished its goal without the marketing apparatus that accompanies such endeavors today.
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1924 Winter Olympics Originally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver (International Winter Sports Week) and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924.riginally called Semaine Internationale des Sports d'Hiver (International Winter Sports Week) and held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 1924.
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JUST 'DOO IT! ULTIMATE GUNNER, MCADOO, TAKES A SHOT AT COACHING WITH RILEY JUST 'DOO IT! ULTIMATE GUNNER, MCADOO, TAKES A SHOT AT COACHING WITH RILEY. MIAMI It's a September morning in Vienna on the Globetrotters-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar All-Stars tour. The all-stars' bus looks like an NBA dressing room, circa 1974. Cornbread Maxwell is busting chops.
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- On a lark, Mr. Sokoli entered a giant-slalom race in January on Belleayre Mountain. — WSJ, A 36-Year-Old Building Super Dreams of Skiing in the Olympics—He Just Might, 31 July 2017 In 1974, Liechtenstein had its first big international skiing success when Hanni Wenzel, then 17, won the women’s slalom at the world championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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- By the time anyone has a chance of matching that feat, 16 years will have passed since he first did it in 1984. Only the 1980 American boycott of the Moscow Games prevented Louganis from piling more gold onto his Olympic resumé. Even when he hit his head on the springboard executing a dive in 1988, Louganis still won an Olympic championship. That dive also caused him some concern for another reason. At the time, Louganis secretly knew he was HIV-positive. If he had bled into the pool -- which he did not -- could Louganis have spread the AIDS virus to another competitor?
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Shaun White Withdraws from Slopestyle Event at 2014 Winter Olympics Harry How/Getty Images. After taking gold in the halfpipe snowboarding event in each of the past two Olympics, American star Shaun White was in line to add some additional hardware to his trophy case with a medal in the new slopestyle event in Sochi. Unfortunately for snowboarding fans, however, White has decided to withdraw from slopestyle.
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'Johnny Weir's outfit for gold medal!' Former figure skater wins fans with flamboyant wardrobe during his Sochi commentary 'I'm trying to stay between the lines of Johnny on Skating with the Stars and the rest of the NBC men’s family in Brooks Brothers.' And his co-commentator, Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski, told NBC on Monday morning that they're enjoying playing dress up together. 'We share adjoining rooms so there's lots of fashion fun,' she said.
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Fierce Five At the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, Douglas, Wieber, and Raisman finished first, second, and third respectively in the all-around competition. Maroney won the vault competition, Douglas and Ross tied for first on the uneven bars, while Raisman won the balance beam and floor exercise.Afterwards, Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross, and Wieber were the five gymnasts chosen to represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics.Douglas, nicknamed the Flying Squirrel for her skill on the uneven bars, finished first at the trials and was thus the automatic qualifier for the team.aroney won the vault competition, Douglas and Ross tied for first on the uneven bars, while Raisman won the balance beam and floor exercise. Afterwards, Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross, and Wieber were the five gymnasts chosen to represent the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Greg Luzinski Greg Luzinski. Gregory Michael The Bull Luzinski (born November 22, 1950) is a former professional baseball player. Luzinski was a left fielder who spent the majority of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies (1970–80), and retired as a member of the Chicago White Sox (1981–84).
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- Terry Crews has made a career out of pairing a sense humor with an awesome physique. Here's how he trains, eats, and lives to be the best actor and athlete he can be.After retiring from the NFL in 1997, Terry Crews jumped into the world of television and acting with both feet and a huge grin. do a lot of power cleans. I actually met with a trainer up in Vancouver who was an Olympic guy from Eastern Europe. He really taught me how to do the clean and press and he put some exercises on me that were on a whole different level than what I was used to. He changed my life in a lot of ways.
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- Whitson, Campeau Win Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit Detroit River Tournament Presented by Ranger Boats Trenton, Mich.—April 8, 2017—Ontario’s Greg Whitson and Mark Campeau rallied to score an exciting come-from-behind win at the Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit’s Detroit River regular season qualifier April 7-8 out of scenic Elizabeth Park in ...
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Roger Craig (American football) College career. Craig followed in the footsteps of Curtis Craig and Jamie Williams to graduate from Davenport Central and then attend Nebraska to play for Coach Tom Osborne. Williams went on to an NFL career as well and Curtis Craig was an All-Big 8 Player in 1977. Roger Craig played three full seasons for the University of Nebraska.
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Greg Luzinski Biographical Information. Greg Luzinski was one of the great sluggers of the 1970s and 1980s, clubbing 307 home runs during his career and appearing in the All-Star Game four times. A native Chicagoan, Luzinski attended Notre Dame High School for Boys before being selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the first round of the 1968 Amateur Draft.
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Albert II, Prince of Monaco Albert was an enthusiastic sportsman, participating in cross country, javelin throwing, handball, judo, swimming, tennis, rowing, sailing, skiing, squash and fencing. He is a patron of Monaco's football team, AS Monaco. Albert competed in the bobsleigh at five consecutive Winter Olympics for Monaco, taking part in both the two-man and four-man events.
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Lisfranc Injury: Easy to Miss, Hard to Get Over Lisfranc Injury: Easy to Miss, Hard to Get Over. 2/12/2013. LAS VEGAS, NV - February 12, 2013 - Elite athletes like NFL quarterback Matt Schaub and wide receiver Santonio Holmes had productive seasons ended by the little-known and often overlooked Lisfranc injury, a serious foot injury that few have heard of and no one wants.
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- There are more than 1 million cases of sepsis each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. — , Detroit Free Press, Oakland basketball coach Greg Kampe nearly died from sepsis in July, 9 Aug. 2017. Harvey contracted sepsis as an infant leading to amputation of both legs and hands.
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Donna Cheatham Donna Cheatham. Donna Cheatham is a high school basketball coach. She has the most wins of any coach in Indiana girls’ high school basketball history. She graduated from Georgetown College in 1967 where she was a three-sport athlete, participating in basketball, volleyball and softball.
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Rudy Galindo Sport: Figure Skating. When Rudy Galindo was an up-and-coming figure skater at the age of 20, his coach Jim Hulick, the man responsible for pairing him with Kristi Yamaguchi, died of an AIDS-related cancer. After winning a handful of championships between the years of 1988-90, the partners decided to split with Yamaguchi focusing on her singles career in 1990.
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Chuck Connors, The Rifleman, in MLB, the NBA and the NFL Chuck Connors, The Rifleman, in MLB, the NBA and the NFL. Actor Chuck Connors (The Rifleman, Branded) played professional baseball 1940-1952. Only 67 major league games (1 with the Dodgers, who passed on him in favor of Gil Hodges, and the rest with the Cubbies), but he had four very good years in AAA, two with the Los Angeles Angels and two with the Montreal Royals.