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Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Joan Benoit Samuelson • Diana Taurasi • Neeraj Chopra • Megan Rapinoe • Emma McKeon • Ariarne Titmus • Brittney Griner • Trinity Rodman • Caeleb Dressel • Laurie Hernandez • Julie Foudy • Pablo Morales • Arshad Nadeem • Grant Hill • Suni Lee • Lisa Carrington • Jessica Fox • Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Sha’Carri Richardson • Sally Pearson • Lisa Fernandez • Yulimar Rojas • Jimmy Butler • Shi Tingmao • Alex Morgan • Sophia Smith • Butch Reynolds • Jayson Tatum • Liu Shiying • Emma Twigg • Gong Lijiao • Carissa Moore • Quan Hongchan • Nathan Adrian • Candace Parker • Sabrina Ionescu • Hamish Bond • Valerie Adams • Yuto Horigome • Anna Meares • 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 • Shaquille O’Neal • Jesse Owens • Carmelo Anthony • Nastia Liukin • Stephen Curry • Charles Barkley • Scottie Pippen • Lennox Lewis • Jim Thorpe • Kerri Walsh Jennings • Katie Ledecky • Bradley Wiggins • Abby Wambach • Missy Franklin • Russell Coutts • Carolina Klüft • Nancy Lieberman • Libby Trickett • Ashton Eaton • Magic Johnson • Noureddine Morceli • 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 • Johnny Weissmuller • Peter Snell • Bill Bradley • Arne Borg • Paavo Nurmi • Steven Holcomb • Iolanda Balas • Paul Elvstrøm • Sergey Bubka • Helen Wills • Irena Szewińska • Sheryl Swoopes • Karl Malone • Suzanne Lenglen • Aileen Riggin • Oscar Robertson • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Caitlyn Jenner • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Liu Xiang • Steven Redgrave • Gertrude Ederle • Naim Süleymanoğlu • 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 • Charley Paddock • Dot Richardson • Mia Hamm • Marie-José Pérec • Kip Keino • Marita Koch • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Ralph Metcalfe • Teresa Edwards • Bob Hayes • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Wilma Rudolph • Tatyana Kazankina • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Fu Mingxia • Michael Spinks • Felix Savón • Mary Lou Retton • Olga Korbut • Bobby Morrow • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Bob Beamon • Mac Wilkins • Teófilo Stevenson • Billy Mills • Norman Ross • Dawn Fraser • Kornelia Ender • Martin Sheridan • Nikolai Andrianov
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