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Cheating scandal shocks ski jumping, topples Olympic champions and shakes Norway's lofty reputation • Mar. 12, 2025, 12:37 PM ET (AP)

Germans hold 1-2-3 spots midway through 2-man world bobsled championship, with US in medal hunt • Mar. 8, 2025, 5:19 PM ET (AP)

Lake Placid awaits word on whether it'll be picked as the Olympic sliding site for 2026 Games • Mar. 7, 2025, 4:28 PM ET (AP)

For some athletes, Olympic sliding in Lake Placid or Italy would both have comforts of home • Mar. 7, 2025, 11:38 AM ET (AP)

US offers $10 million reward for fugitive snowboarder accused of running deadly drug ring • Mar. 6, 2025, 11:03 PM ET (AP)

Facts

Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Valerie Adams • Quan Hongchan • Yulimar Rojas • Pablo Morales • Sabrina Ionescu • Trinity Rodman • Lisa Fernandez • Brittney Griner • Laurie Hernandez • Grant Hill • Joan Benoit Samuelson • Butch Reynolds • Suni Lee • Ariarne Titmus • Julie Foudy • Neeraj Chopra • Sophia Smith • Arshad Nadeem • Candace Parker • Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Caeleb Dressel • Hamish Bond • Yuto Horigome • Megan Rapinoe • Gong Lijiao • Anna Meares • Jessica Fox • Carissa Moore • Diana Taurasi • Lisa Carrington • Emma McKeon • Sally Pearson • Shi Tingmao • Sha’Carri Richardson • Jayson Tatum • Devin Booker • Alex Morgan • Emma Twigg • Liu Shiying • Nathan Adrian • Jimmy Butler • Muhammad Ali • Bill Russell • LeBron James • Lionel Messi • Michael Phelps • Rafael Nadal • Usain Bolt • Chris Paul • Hayley Wickenheiser • Dwyane Wade • Ryan Lochte • Kobe Bryant • Kevin Durant • Andre Agassi • Yelena Isinbayeva • Michael Jordan • Meseret Defar • Chris Hoy • Serena Williams • Jesse Owens • Shaquille O’Neal • Carmelo Anthony • Nastia Liukin • Stephen Curry • Charles Barkley • Scottie Pippen • Lennox Lewis • Kerri Walsh Jennings • Jim Thorpe • Katie Ledecky • Bradley Wiggins • Abby Wambach • Missy Franklin • Michelle Akers • Russell Coutts • Carolina Klüft • Nancy Lieberman • Ashton Eaton • Libby Trickett • Noureddine Morceli • Magic Johnson • Cheryl Miller • Anne Donovan • Pernell Whitaker • Simone Biles • Misty May-Treanor • Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce • Mo Farah • Guo Jingjing • Joe Frazier • Allyson Felix • Michael Johnson • Kōhei Uchimura • Carl Lewis • Donovan Bailey • Andy Murray • Wu Minxia • Inge de Bruijn • Ben Ainslie • Michelle Smith • Tirunesh Dibaba • Gabby Douglas • Hanyu Yuzuru • Sebastian Coe • Jackie Joyner-Kersee • Rafer Johnson • Věra Čáslavská • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Tommy Kono • Ian Thorpe • Nadia Comăneci • Ferenc Puskás • Karch Kiraly • Floyd Patterson • Halil Mutlu • George Foreman • Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Emil Zátopek • Vitaly Scherbo • Peter Snell • Johnny Weissmuller • Bill Bradley • Paavo Nurmi • Arne Borg • Steven Holcomb • Iolanda Balas • Paul Elvstrøm • Sergey Bubka • Helen Wills • Irena Szewińska • Karl Malone • Sheryl Swoopes • Suzanne Lenglen • Aileen Riggin • Oscar Robertson • Caitlyn Jenner • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Steven Redgrave • Liu Xiang • Naim Süleymanoğlu • Gertrude Ederle • Parry O’Brien • Harry Mallin • Dick Fosbury • Micheline Ostermeyer • Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin • Steve Ovett • Nino Benvenuti • John J. Flanagan • John Stockton • Evelyn Ashford • Tracy Caulkins • Florence Griffith Joyner • Eddie Eagan • Sugar Ray Leonard • Janet Evans • Jessica Ennis-Hill • Mijaín López • Bob Richards • Bob Mathias • Shirley Strickland de la Hunty • Greg Louganis • Al Oerter • Pete Desjardins • Aleksandr Karelin • Dot Richardson • Charley Paddock • Mia Hamm • Kip Keino • Marie-José Pérec • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Marita Koch • Ralph Metcalfe • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Bob Hayes • Teresa Edwards • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Wilma Rudolph • Tatyana Kazankina • Fu Mingxia • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Michael Spinks • Mary Lou Retton • Felix Savón • Olga Korbut • Bobby Morrow • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Bob Beamon • Mac Wilkins • Teófilo Stevenson • Norman Ross • Billy Mills • Dawn Fraser • Nikolai Andrianov
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