Olympic gold medals articles
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7-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
Athletes Katie Ledecky and Jim Thorpe were among 19 people honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden in Washington D.C. on Friday, May 3
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Francisco 'Morochito' Rodriguez, boxer who won Venezuela's first Olympic gold medal, dies at 78
Francisco “Morochito” Rodriguez, the boxer who won Venezuela’s first Olympic gold medal, died Tuesday at age 78.
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Figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra dead at 82; Won first Dutch winter Olympics gold medal
Former figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra has died at the age of 82, her daughter, Katja Kossmayer, confirmed in a post on Facebook. Dijkstra won an Olympic gold medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, becoming the first Dutch athlete to ever win a gold medal during the Winter Olympic Games.She also won a silver medal four years earlier, and secured three world titles and five European championships. She was chosen as the female athlete of the year in the Netherlands six times.