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Staley was named the 2004 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year and she was an assistant coach for the U.S. She gave her 1996 gold medal to her mother, Estelle, as a gift for being the biggest influence in Staley's life. Track Star Lopez Lomong Recalls His Abduction As One Of 'Lost Boys Of Sudan'Ī three-time Olympian, Staley won three gold medals in basketball from 1996-2004.
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Lomong was a member of Team Darfur, an international association of athletes working to raise awareness of the violence in Darfur. "Now I'm not just one of the 'Lost Boys.' I'm an American," he said. Exactly one year later, he qualified for the Olympics. Lomong ran track at Northern Arizona University and gained citizenship on July 6, 2007. He was put in a New York State household and introduced to track at Tully High School in Tully, New York. Lomong was a Lost Boy of Sudan displaced in the United States in 2001 after ten years in a Sudanese refugee camp. Related: How Miles Chamley-Watson Turned Detention Into Olympic Fencing She repeated the feat in 2008 as well as at the World Championships in 20. Zagunis, who fenced collegiately at Notre Dame, was the first American fencer to win gold in more than a century when she won in individual sabre in 2004. Related: Michael Phelps' 3-D Printed Under Armour Shoe Has Special Tribute To Infant Son No matter when Phelps retires for good, he is playing with house money in Rio.
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Earlier this week, Phelps called the Rio Games, " my potential last Olympics," leaving the door open a crack for Tokyo in 2020. Phelps is the first American male swimmer to ever qualify for five Olympics. His eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics are the most in a single Games. Phelps enters his fifth Olympics with 22 medals - 18 of them gold (both records). Although the list has included household names such as Rafer Johnson, Dawn Staley and Evelyn Ashford, Phelps will be the most distinguished Olympian to carry the stars and stripes into the Olympic Stadium. Phelps joins a list of American icons who have carried the flag since 1908. Phelps is the flag bearer for the United States at the Opening Ceremony. Michael Phelps will add another Olympic accomplishment to his résumé in Rio this year.