1936 Summer Olympics

Alex Morgan is a famous soccer player, obviously because she is a women's world cup champion, also an olympic gold medalist. Alex Morgan plays for the United States women's national soccer team, also the Orlando Pride team,and she played forward. Alex Morgan was born in 1989 on July 2, she is 26 years old. Alex Morgan’s full name is Alexandra Patricia Morgan. Alex Morgan had two sisters. Alex Morgan has an average height, she is five foot tall and seven inches. Tight now Alex Morgan is going to…

College in Iowa with a football scholarship. While playing football on his scholarship he had injured his knee and was forced to just focus on Track and field. His track coach L.D. Weldon encouraged Bruce to train for the Olympic decathlon. In 1972 at Olympic Games in Munich West Germany he placed 3rd in the trials and 10th in the games. Then at…

Johnny Weissmuller, a five time Olympic gold Medalist which resulted in a tie. During the competition, they were swimming up the Mississippi River, LeRoy Colombo would have won if he did not dislocate his shoulder. This is explained in an article about it:…

day thousands of students and families of students marched throughout the capital to make their voice heard. These marches started as peaceful demonstrations until the eve of October 2, 1968 which in no coincidence happened to be the eve before the Olympic Games being held in Mexico City. The protest were an effort to get global attention on a major country issues, even to this day, the poor funding of education systems in Mexico, self-government for universities, the release of political…

soon after showed his immense talent for the sport. After years of training Michael Phelps went to the Olympics at the age of 15. I chose Michael Phelps because he showed you what there you can do. He trained and trained and became one of the best athlete to ever live. He shows kids an example of what you can do. If you want to do something must try. I always saw Michael Phelps in the OLympics. He would beat even the fastest of the fastest of people. It was hard to figure out how he was as fast…

Being a competitive swimmer for the past 10 years has exposed me to meeting a lot of new people. My adult role models along with my closest friends are all apart of my swimming career in some way. I was honored enough to be named a captain of my high school swim team, a recognition only few receive as our team is 50 members large. Being a captain not only meant leading stretches and getting a cool award at the end of the year, it meant people looked up to me. When someone had a bad race or…

Jen Bricker can be such an inspiration. She did things that even people with legs can't do. imagine doing gymnastics with no legs. Helen Keller once wrote "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” The story "The Amazing Powers Of Jen Bricker" by Kristen Lewis can show what that quote means because Jen Bricker has no legs but she still looked past it and she could do gymnastics. So did the poem "Can't" by Edgar Albert Guest because when people think they can’t, they have to…

You can’t put a limit on anything; the more you dream the farther you get.”(USA swimming). These are the words of a great man. That great man is Michael Phelps Olympic gold medalist and this is his story. Father, husband, inspiration, and hero all words that can be used to describe the most decorated Olympian of all time. Although many see him as just a swimmer that has had his time for fame, he faced countless tribulations on his path to fame. Michael Phelps was born on June 30, 1985 in…

Cheating has occurred in a wide variety of styles over time in many different sports, but one of the major complications that has come along over time has been the use of drugs to help improve an athlete’s performance. For example, athletes such as Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bond are prime examples of athletes who used enhancement drugs to make them perform better. These athletes looked like leaders of their sport but then after testing positive to drug usage they had their captain like…

“Somewhere behind the athlete you have become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you, is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… Play for her.” This was said by Mia Hamm, a professional soccer player from Team USA, in a television interview. Consider the outcome, if that “little girl” never got the opportunity to fall in love with a sport because of feminist discrimination. Every generation of adults, who wanted their daughters to have the…