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February 10, 1968: 19 year old American, Peggy Fleming wins the Olympic gold medal for figure skating in Grenoble, France. 

Her award was singularly important for the American athletes and the nation as a whole, for this was the only gold medal that the U.S. Olympic team won in the 1968 Winter Games. It signaled a return to American dominance in the sport of women’s figure skating following the unprecedented tragedy when the entire 18-member US figure skating team was killed in a plane crash in 1961.

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Luz Long and Jesse Owens, the two contenders in the long jump competition, Berlin, 1936 -by Lothar Rübelt

“It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler… You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating on the twenty-four karat friendship that I felt for Luz Long at that moment.”
— Jesse Owens, cit.

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Vintage fitspo: Olympic Champion diver, American Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Summer Games, Berlin, photographed by Lothar Rübelt, 1936

Oscar Pistorius of South Africa competes in the Men’s 400m Round 1 Heats on Day 8 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 4, 2012 in London, England.

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Olympian dedication.

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