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Who has collected the most Winter Olympic hardware than any other American?
Short track speed skater Apollo Ono with 8 medals
What has won the most overall Olympic medals?
Here are the standing up to the 2008 games, but if Michael Phelps wins medals in the rest of his events, he will be in this list as well.Individual medals are the main focus of the Olympics, and few have ever won more than two or three medals. This list is devoted to those who have truly been outstanding and awe-inspiring in obtaining more Summer Games medals than anyone else. Women: 18 - LATYNINA, Larisa (URS), 1956-196412 - FISCHER-SCHMIDT, Birgit (GDR-GER), canoe / kayak, 1980-200411 - CASLAVSKA, Vera (TCH), 1960-196411 - THOMPSON, Jenny (USA), aquatics, 1992-200410 - VAN ALMSICK, Franziska, (GER), aquatics, 1992-200410 - KELETI, Agnes (HUN), 1956-196010 - ASTAKHOVA, Polina (URS), 1956-1964 Men: 15 - ANDRIANOV, Nikolay (URS), gymnastics, 1972-198013 - SHAKHLIN, Boris (URS), gymnastics, 1956-196413 - MANGIAROTTI, Edoardo (ITA), fencing, 1936-196013 - ONO, Takashi (JPN), gymnastics, 1952-196412 - KATO, Sawao (JPN), gymnastics, 1968-197612 - NURMI, Paavo (FIN), athletics, 1920-192812 - NEMOV, Alexei (RUS), gymnastics, 1996-2000 Source: olympic.org
Famous women whose first name letter y?
Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow.
Who won three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics?
Four athletes won three gold medals at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome: 1) Larissa Latynina, USSR - gymnastics 2) Takashi Ono, Japan - gymnastics 3) Chris von Saltza, USA - swimming 4) Wilma Rudolph, USA - athletics Gymnast Boris Shakhlin of the USSR won the most gold medals (4) at the 1960 Summer Games in Rome. No athlete won three gold medals at the 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley.
What is Komachi?
She lived around 850 C.E. (b. 834?) during the Heian period. The story about her is that she was a woman of unparallelled beauty in her youth and enjoyed the attention of many suitors. She was, however, haughty and cruel, breaking many hearts. She was punished by living to an old age and dying as a destitute and ugly hag in loneliness. The legend is almost certainly false, but the passionate nature of her loves survives (minus the didactic ending) to this day. In fact, the town of Ogachi in Akita prefecture celebrates an annual Komachi Festival on the second Sunday of June (legend has it that she was born in the village of Ono in Ogachi). There is a shrine dedicated to her. What is certain about her, however, is that she was a major poet. - http://www.gotterdammerung.org/japan/literature/ono-no-komachi/
