Stephanie Rice (swimming) and Donald Bradmen (cricket).
Johnny Weissmueller is one of the best known Olympic swimming champions in history. He won five gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. In later life he began an acting career and is best known for for his performance as Tarzan in the movies.
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Gymnastics, Diving, Martial arts, weightlifting, table tennis, and badminton are some of the Olympic games China is best known for.
The first double amputee to compete in the Olympics was Oscar Pistorius. Another disabled athlete is George Eyser, he had a wooden leg. Im Dong Hyun who is nearly blind set records at the Olympic games.
Now for some fun. The gymnastics medals have been handed out; the winners can relax and give a "Champions Gala." That will be in tonight's first hour. If it's like the Winter Olympics gala, it will be fun -- no rules, just some lithe, little people putting on a show.
Football (world champions in 1998, runner-ups in Seoul), handball (world and Olympic champions), rugby (codified in Britain but originating from south-western France), fencing, judo, karate, ... As most countries, France plays nearly all sports internationally even if it has a low raking in some (Amreican football, etc..)
Some of the lesser known sports in the Summer Olympics include canoeing, handball, and taekwondo.
It depends for which of the 6 types there are. Also it would depend if you just wanted team champions, individual champions or in some cases apparatus finals champions. Best place to find these answers are at the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique website at .fig.com
Joe Lewis and Sugar Ray Leonard are former boxing champions.
Some very well known female Olympic swimmers include Katie Hoff (USA), Dara Torres (USA), Annamay Pierse (CAN), Leisel Jones (AUS), Rebecca Soni (USA), Lisbeth Trickett (Lenton) (AUS), and Rebecca Adlington (GBR).
There is not a term with Olympic standing on its own. There is the term Olympic Games, which can be abbreviated as the OlympicS. The modern Olympic Games are well known. The original games, were the Ancient Olympic Games, a multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD. There were not any contacts between the Greeks and the Maya. At that time the existence of America was not even known. America was discovered in the late 15th century, roughly 1,100 years after the end of the ancient Olympic games