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Jesse Owens won four track and field gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, a record...

A gall bladder infection and a traffic jam conspired against Kip Keino, yet he destroyed...

Double Olympic champion Ed Moses was invincible for almost a decade in the 400m hurdles,...

Mark Spitz won seven Olympic gold medals, all in world record times, at the 1972 Games,...

Greg Louganis cracked his head on the springboard during the Seoul Olympics but recovered...

Cassius Clay struck gold in Rome before going on to become the 'greatest' as Muhammad...

Romanian Nadia Comaneci achieved perfection as a 14-year-old at the Montreal Olympics in...

Multiple Olympic gold medallists Paavo Nurmi and Lasse Virén were the pick of the...

The spectacular rise to prominence of Bob Mathias, decathlon champion at the 1948 and...

Not only did Michael Johnson win five Olympic gold medals, he also set world records at...