Category: Spotlight

He won decathlon gold at Beijing 2008, continuing Team USA’s dominance in the event.

The daughter of South Korean immigrants, she was one of the first Olympic champions born in the year 2000.

Despite not fitting in while growing up in a predominantly white town, she later became one of Team USA’s top Paralympic sprinters.

She swept the diving events at London 1948 to become the first Asian American Olympic champion.

The Bo-Dyn Project constructed bobsleds that helped Team USA reach the top of the Olympic podium.

Starting with Rome 1960, he participated in five Paralympic Games and won 12 gold medals.

She teamed with Jessie Diggins to win a dramatic gold medal in the sprint relay, the first U.S. cross-country skiers to win Olympic gold.

The U.S. sent just one man to the inaugural Paralympic Winter Games in 1976; four years later, Castellano won two skiing gold medals.

The daughter of a Hollywood manager, she learned the sport from an Austrian director who taught it to actors and actresses.

Blind since birth, she competed in seven Paralympic Games and won an astounding 41 gold medals.