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Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Candace Parker • Megan Rapinoe • Arshad Nadeem • Anna Meares • Carissa Moore • Diana Taurasi • Lisa Carrington • Shi Tingmao • Jayson Tatum • Devin Booker • Liu Shiying • Neeraj Chopra • Butch Reynolds • Valerie Adams • Emma Twigg • Yuto Horigome • Gong Lijiao • Caeleb Dressel • Trinity Rodman • Alex Morgan • Nathan Adrian • Emma McKeon • Joan Benoit Samuelson • Sally Pearson • Jimmy Butler • Ariarne Titmus • Pablo Morales • Sabrina Ionescu • Grant Hill • Laurie Hernandez • Brittney Griner • Lisa Fernandez • Suni Lee • Yulimar Rojas • Julie Foudy • Hamish Bond • Jessica Fox • Sophia Smith • Sha’Carri Richardson • Quan Hongchan • 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 • 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 • Tirunesh Dibaba • Ben Ainslie • Michelle Smith • Gabby Douglas • Hanyu Yuzuru • Sebastian Coe • Jackie Joyner-Kersee • Rafer Johnson • Věra Čáslavská • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Tommy Kono • Ian Thorpe • Nadia Comăneci • Karch Kiraly • Ferenc Puskás • 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 • 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 • Evelyn Ashford • John Stockton • 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 • Marita Koch • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Ralph Metcalfe • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Teresa Edwards • Bob Hayes • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Wilma Rudolph • Tatyana Kazankina • Fu Mingxia • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Michael Spinks • Mary Lou Retton • Felix Savón • Bobby Morrow • Olga Korbut • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Mac Wilkins • Bob Beamon • Billy Mills • Norman Ross • Teófilo Stevenson • Dawn Fraser • Kornelia Ender
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