Some of the greatest American swimmers in Olympic history have won multiple Olympic medals through a variety of different events. Others have been swimming at the Olympic level for so long that it is not difficult to include them on the list. And some have done both, swimming for decades and winning huge numbers of […]
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Bjørn Dæhlie Bjørn Dæhlie, of Norway, has won more gold medals than any other Winter Olympic athlete. He competed in three Olympic Games, from 1992 to 1998, winning eight gold medals. In all, Dæhlie won 12 medals, the most by any Winter Olympic athlete. In his first Olympic Games at Albertville, France, in 1992, he […]
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Japan before the 1984 Summer Olympics Japan participated in the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow games. After an eight-year absence from Olympic competition, the country’s best athletes gathered in Los Angeles for the summer of 1984. Games. Japan was expected to do well in men’s wrestling and judo, and the fans back home were […]