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Jim Thorpe

1912, American Indian, wins both decathlon and pentathlon at Olympics in Sweden; later medals and honors taken away when its discovered he had played semi-pro baseball as a summer job in college

Emil Zatopek

1st and only athlete to win 3 distance races in 1952 summer olympics was ____ ____

Black September

A Palestinian intentional terrorist organization who split from the PLO who were against Israel who took captive and killed 11 Israeli athletes from the Munich Olympics

blood doping

A technique for temporarily improving athletic performance in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells previously withdrawn from an athlete are injected back just before an event

Alice Coachman

Alice Coachman Davis was an American athlete. She specialized in high jump and was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal

Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee, from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

Baron Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern Olympic Games. ... A man who devoted his life to education, history and sociology, in 1894 he founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help build a peaceful and better world by educating young people through sport.

Bob Beamon

Bob Beamon, (born August 29, 1946, Bronx, New York, U.S.), American long jumper, who set a world record of 8.90 metres (29.2 feet) at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Sigfrid Edstrom

Edström was involved in Swedish sports administration, and helped organise the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. During the Olympics, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) was established, and Edström was elected its first president, a position that he held until 1946.

Nawal El Moutawakel

El Moutawakel was born in Casablanca, and was studying at Iowa State University when she won her Olympic title, which came as a surprise in her home country. King Hassan II of Morocco telephoned her to give his congratulations, and he declared that all girls born the day of her victory were to be named in her honor.[5] Her medal also meant the breakthrough for sporting women in Morocco and other mostly Muslim countries. She was a pioneer for Muslim and Arabic athletes in that she confounded long-held beliefs that women of such backgrounds could not succeed in athletics.

Elwood Stanley Brown

Elwood Stanley Brown (April 9, 1883 - March 24, 1924) was an American sports organizer in Illinois, Manila, Europe, and South America. In his short life, he made a number of major accomplishments: the intensive promotion of sports among Filipinos, originating international sports competitions in Asia, the promotion of the Olympics around the world, the founding (1910) of the first Boy Scout troops in the Philippines, and initiating and organizing the American Expeditionary Forces games and its corollary the Inter-Allied Games at the end of the War in Europe.[1] Brown worked closely with Charles Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin and the International Olympic Committee in propagating the Olympic ideal through the YMCA. "After his death, the close relationship between the IOC and the YMCA faded... there was no man of the calibre of Elwood S. Brown to carry on the work he had started."

Fanny Blankers-Koen

Francina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, earning her the nickname "the flying housewife", and was the most successful athlete at the event.

Gretel Bergman

Gretel Lambert was a German Jewish track and field athlete who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s. Due to her Jewish origins, the Nazis prevented her from taking part in the 1936 Summer Olympics, after which she left Germany and vowed never to return.

Horst Dassler

Horst Dassler was a businessman who was the son of Adolf "Adi" Dassler, founder of Adidas. Horst Dassler founded Arena, a swimwear company, and became chairman of Adidas, and at the time of his death it was the world's largest sporting goods manufacturer with affiliates in 40 nations

Nadia Comaneci

In 1976 in Montreal, Romanian athlete Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 for her. performance on the uneven bars. She went on to record the perfect 10.0 six more times and became the youngest all-around Olympic gold medallist ever.

Monique Berlioux

Monique Berlioux was a French swimmer. Berlioux competed in the women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Despite being of French nationality she won the ASA National British Championships 150 yards backstroke title in 1946.

Johnny Weissmuller

Olympic swimming championship, undefeated in freestyle races, held 67 records, movie star as Tarzan

Dick Fosbury

On October 20, 1968, 21-year-old Oregonian Dick Fosbury wins gold—and sets an Olympic record—when he high-jumps 7 feet 4 1/4 inches at the Mexico City Games. It was the first American victory in the event since 1956. It was also the international debut of Fosbury's unique jumping style, known as the "Fosbury Flop."

1976 Soweto Uprising

People rose up against gov. teaching Afrikaans and not English in Soweto schools

BALCO scandal

Rumors of steroid use by certain professional baseball players

Norma Enriqueta Basilio

She was the last torch-bearer of the 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico City on 12 October 1968. She was a national athletics champion and record-holder in 80 metres hurdles and finished seventh in this event at the 1967 Pan American Games.

Jean Drapeau

The Montreal Olympics left the city with a C$1.6bn debt, a string of corruption scandals, and a creeping sense of economic and social decline. Jean Drapeau's legacy was tarnished by the financial disaster that was the 1976 Summer Olympics — the extravagant, trouble-plagued stadium, the considerable cost overruns, the rampant corruption.

Muhammad Ali

Then known as Cassius Clay, he won a gold medal in the Rome 1960 Olympic Games. Best known for his pro career and as an activist and philanthropist after changing his name to Muhammad Ali. ... Gregarious inside the ring and out, Clay also was a hit in the Olympic Village, shaking hands and exchanging pins.

Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach OLY is a German lawyer, former Olympic fencer and Olympic Gold Medalist who serves as the ninth and current president of the International Olympic Committee. He is also a former member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation executive board.

Vera Caslavska

Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships

Dr. William Penny Brookes

William Penny Brookes was an English surgeon, magistrate, botanist, and educationalist especially known for founding the Wenlock Olympian Games, inspiring the modern Olympic Games, and for his promotion of physical education and personal betterment

Manfred Donike

a cyclist, competing in the 1960 and 1961 Tour de France. But he is most famous as a chemist and for his work in the fight against doping, for which he was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver in 1995. In 1977 he was appointed director of the Institute of Biochemistry at the Sports University in Cologne. There he was instrumental in the development of drug tests still in use today. Today the worldwide standards in the sample preparation and the analytical methods are based in many parts on his ideas, suggestions and experiences. Donike was the leading doping expert who testified against the sprinter Ben Johnson in the 1988 sprint scandal.

Dutee Chand

is an Indian professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 metres event. She is the first Indian to win a gold medal in 100m race in a global competition. Dutee Chand clocked 23.30 sec to finish 5th in 200m at World University Games Earlier, Dutee had also won a gold medal in the 100m dash event Dutee had become the first Indian woman track and field athlete to clinch a gold medal at the World Universiade. She is the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the Women's 100 metres event at the Summer Olympic Games.

Don Catlin

is an anti-doping scientist and one of the founders of modern drug-testing in sport. Catlin has overseen testing for performance-enhancing drugs at the three most recent Olympics held in the United States since the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, as well as testing for the United States Olympic Committee, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Major League Baseball's minor leagues and the National Football League (NFL). He has also developed drug identification techniques currently in use at the Olympic, professional and collegiate levels.

Babe Didrickson

multi-talented champion Mildred "Babe" Didrikson won three medals and set three records at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles: gold in the javelin throw and the 80m hurdles, and silver in the high jump despite having tied for first place with a leap of 1.65m, after being deemed to have used an invalid technique. This unprecedented Olympic medal haul has never been repeated, and Didrikson's performances at the Games preceded an extraordinary amateur then professional golf career.

Peter Ueberroth

organized a privately funded Olympics with remarkable success

Dennis Brutus

was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its controversial racial policy of apartheid.

Henri de Baillet-Latour

was elected as a member of the IOC in 1903. He was tasked with the organisation of sport in Belgium, and he co-founded the Belgian Olympic Committee in 1906. He was responsible for coordinating Belgium's participation at the London Olympics in 1908 and the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.