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Also Known As	Olympiad
Notable Honorees	Jessica Fox • Jimmy Butler • Diana Taurasi • Sally Pearson • Yuto Horigome • Megan Rapinoe • Anna Meares • Shi Tingmao • Valerie Adams • Jayson Tatum • Laurie Hernandez • Hamish Bond • Lisa Fernandez • Julie Foudy • Brittney Griner • Candace Parker • Yulimar Rojas • Gong Lijiao • Arshad Nadeem • Sha’Carri Richardson • Alex Morgan • Caeleb Dressel • Quan Hongchan • Trinity Rodman • Emma McKeon • Neeraj Chopra • Emma Twigg • Devin Booker • Liu Shiying • Pablo Morales • Nathan Adrian • Lisa Carrington • Suni Lee • Sabrina Ionescu • Ariarne Titmus • Butch Reynolds • Sophia Smith • Joan Benoit Samuelson • Grant Hill • Valerie Brisco-Hooks • Carissa Moore • 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 • Guo Jingjing • Joe Frazier • Allyson Felix • Michael Johnson • Kōhei Uchimura • Carl Lewis • Donovan Bailey • Andy Murray • Wu Minxia • Inge de Bruijn • Michelle Smith • Tirunesh Dibaba • Ben Ainslie • 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 • Johnny Weissmuller • Peter Snell • 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 • Cynthia Cooper-Dyke • Caitlyn Jenner • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Steven Redgrave • Liu Xiang • Gertrude Ederle • Naim Süleymanoğlu • Parry O’Brien • Dick Fosbury • Harry Mallin • Micheline Ostermeyer • Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin • Steve Ovett • Nino Benvenuti • John J. Flanagan • Evelyn Ashford • John Stockton • 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 • Ralph Metcalfe • Stanisława Walasiewicz • Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky • Marita Koch • Teresa Edwards • Bob Hayes • Adolph Rupp • Barney Ewell • Wilma Rudolph • Tatyana Kazankina • Adhemar Ferreira da Silva • Fu Mingxia • Michael Spinks • Felix Savón • Mary Lou Retton • Olga Korbut • Bobby Morrow • Alvin Kraenzlein • Lee Evans • Daley Thompson • Bob Beamon • Mac Wilkins • Norman Ross • Billy Mills • Dawn Fraser • Teófilo Stevenson • Martin Sheridan
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