
ALICE COACHMAN, 88
High Jump
Coachman was the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, and the only female American athlete to win gold in track and field at the 1948 Games.

NBC interviewed a random tourist about the queen, and apparently didn’t realize he was Evander Holyfield.
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Cameron van der Burgh of RSA reacts after winning the gold in the Men’s 100m Breastsroke
Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

@RyanLochte of the United States swims butterfly in heat five of the Men’s 400m Individual Medley
Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images
I’m obsessed with the Olympics and by the end of the next sixteen days, you will be too.