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Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Brittney Griner • Nathan Adrian • Ariarne Titmus • Megan Rapinoe • Lisa Carrington • Devin Booker • Diana Taurasi • Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Arshad Nadeem • Shi Tingmao • Alex Morgan • Jayson Tatum • Sha’Carri Richardson • Emma Twigg • Anna Meares • Carissa Moore • Joan Benoit Samuelson • Sophia Smith • Liu Shiying • Neeraj Chopra • Jessica Fox • Hamish Bond • Gong Lijiao • Julie Foudy • Quan Hongchan • Yulimar Rojas • Caeleb Dressel • Suni Lee • Butch Reynolds • Candace Parker • Valerie Adams • Emma McKeon • Lisa Fernandez • Sally Pearson • Laurie Hernandez • Sabrina Ionescu • Pablo Morales • Jimmy Butler • Yuto Horigome • Trinity Rodman • Grant Hill • 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 • Joe Frazier • Guo Jingjing • 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 • Arne Borg • Paavo Nurmi • Steven Holcomb • Iolanda Balas • Paul Elvstrøm • Sergey Bubka • Helen Wills • Irena Szewińska • Karl Malone • Sheryl Swoopes • Suzanne Lenglen • Aileen Riggin • Oscar Robertson • Caitlyn Jenner • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Steven Redgrave • Liu Xiang • Naim Süleymanoğlu • Gertrude Ederle • Parry O’Brien • Harry Mallin • Dick Fosbury • Micheline Ostermeyer • Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin • Steve Ovett • Nino Benvenuti • John J. Flanagan • John Stockton • Evelyn Ashford • 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 • Charley Paddock • Dot Richardson • Mia Hamm • Marie-José Pérec • Kip Keino • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Ralph Metcalfe • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Marita Koch • Bob Hayes • Teresa Edwards • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Wilma Rudolph • Tatyana Kazankina • Fu Mingxia • Michael Spinks • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Felix Savón • Mary Lou Retton • Olga Korbut • Bobby Morrow • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Mac Wilkins • Bob Beamon • Billy Mills • Norman Ross • Dawn Fraser • Teófilo Stevenson • Nikolai Andrianov
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