Vonetta Flowers Achieved What Distinction in Winning a Bobsled Gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games?

Lewis got halfway there on Aug. 6, 1984, by winning gold in the men’s long jump event. 

Márta Károlyi, the U.S. team coordinator, questioned the age of some of China’s athletes, while the media reported online records showing two of the Chinese gymnasts were younger than the 16-year-old age requirement necessary to compete. 

First foul ball broke her nose, second hit her in the knee. 

All grand slams were recorded in the final four innings of the game, bringing the Yankees from a six-run deficit to a lead the A’s couldn’t overcome. 

The league had previously held several games in Atlanta before, including the 2014 and 2015 championships which each drew more than 8,000 people. 

Mays’ other career milestones include being named National League Rookie of the Year in 1951 and winning 12 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards as an outfielder — tied for most all-time with the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente.  

The 23-year-old athlete out of Northeast Louisiana State College — now known as University of Louisiana Monroe — completed his record-breaking vault using a fiberglass pole, while most other vaulters were still using wooden poles. 

The last baseball Olympics event was last played in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing 

The more than 67,000 fans who attended the game were also treated to pop concerts, parachutists and fireworks at the event. 

Time Inc. publisher Henry Luce created Sports Illustrated (SI) to be the first weekly printed national magazine focused on live sporting events, with the first issue hitting newsstands on Aug. 16, 1954. 

Prior to joining Nashville, Trotz played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League. 

Can you name all 5 events in the Modern Olympic Pentathon?