Janet Evans, the only American woman to win four Olympic gold medals in swimming, put it best.
Adlington, 19, from Mansfield, became the first British swimmer in 100 years to win two Olympic gold medals.
He won Olympic gold medals in 1912 for both the decathlon and pentathlon.
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Gebrselassie has broken 27 world records during an illustrious career, and collected two Olympic gold medals and four world titles.
Then there are also the four Olympic gold medals, 22 doubles titles, two mixed doubles titles and 45 single titles.
China has won 11 of the 24 Olympic gold medals awarded in badminton since 1992, according to the International Olympics Committee's database.
She earned two Olympic gold medals as a player and coached the United States to a gold medal in the 2008 Olympic games.
The pair, who 24 million viewers saw win Olympic gold medals in 1984, will look after aspiring celebrity skaters on live championship Dancing on Ice.
Michael Phelps, who has won more Olympic gold medals than anyone, in any sport, threatened, through his coach, to boycott competitions in which the suits were permitted.
Oregon junior English Gardner won the women's 60, beating two pros who earned Olympic gold medals as part of the U.S. 4x100 relay, Jeneba Tarmoh and Lauryn Williams.
Sir Matthew Pinsent, who won four Olympic gold medals in rowing for Great Britain and is going to Delhi as part of the BBC commentary team, questioned the future of the Games.
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Oreiller was its resident snow showman in the 1940s -- a fearless adrenalin junkie who lived up to his nickname, and claimed skiing's first Olympic gold medals when the sport was introduced at the 1948 Winter Games.
Perry and Getzlaf came into the NHL together and have played on the same line for nearly every game of their careers, winning the Stanley Cup in 2007 and earning Olympic gold medals for Canada together in 2010.
Hoy, who has six Olympic gold medals - two from London 2012 - making him Britain's greatest Olympian, will then be given the freedom of the city during a private ceremony at the Assembly Rooms at about 15:00, watched by 500 invited guests.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
Modern gold Olympic medals are plated with about six grams of gold, while the runners up medals are struck from pure silver.
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From 1928 through 1980, India won 11 consecutive Olympic medals in field hockey, including eight gold medals.
"There are so many athletes who are unknown but perhaps their names would have been known a lot better if they had been in the Olympic Games and competed for gold medals, " say Caraccioli.
Even if he gets gold in just half of the eight events he has entered, Phelps will hold the record for the most gold medals in Olympic history and could arguably be called the greatest Olympian ever.
That decision would culminate in three Olympic medals two gold and one bronze in the 400-meter hurdles.
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That makes 14 gold medals in 17 Olympic appearances for Team USA, which got a game-high 30 points from Durant.
Hogshead-Makar, who won three gold medals as an Olympic swimmer, says playing sports teaches girls about winning and losing, belonging to a team, and postponing short-term gratification for long-term rewards.
Unlike on the beach-volleyball court, where a pair of U.S. women has snapped up three of the five gold medals the young Olympic sport has ever awarded, the U.S. women's volleyball team has never won gold.
Jesse Owens was the star of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, winning four gold medals under the glare of Adolf Hitler.
The swimmer who, under her maiden name Michelle Smith, won three gold medals at the 1996 Olympic Games, is under investigation by International Swimming Federation after it said the doping sample taken in November last year showed clear signs of contamination.
She then took a seven-year break before returning for the 2000 Sydney Games, where she would win two gold relay medals and first individual Olympic medals: three bronzes medals in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and the 100-meter butterfly.
Robertson and Emms won Olympic silver in 2004 before collecting Commonwealth and World gold medals in 2006.
The U.S. win put an already unsurpassed Phelps at 22 total medals over three Olympic Games: 18 gold, two silver and two bronze.
Larissa Latynina, a gymnast for the former Soviet Union, still holds the record for the most Olympic medals: 18 (9 of them gold) won in the '56, '60 and '64 Games.
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