Top 10 Recommended Olympic Athletes Available for Corporate Appearances

 Bruce Jenner - US Track Gold Medalist in 1976
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Bruce Jenner, was born on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. Bruce Jenner is a U.S. track and field athlete, famous for winning the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics. Bruce Jenner placed third in the decathlon at the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials and finished in an impressive tenth place at the 1972 Munich games. He became an American champion in the event and won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, setting a world record of 8,634 points.

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 Mark Spitz - Seven Time Gold Medal Swimmer
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A two-time American Olympic swimmer, Mark Spitz was born February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California. He holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven), which he set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He remains (as of 2008) one of only a few Olympic athletes to both win a gold medal in every (individual) event he entered in a given year, and to set a new world record in each such event. Between 1965 and 1972, Spitz won 9 Olympic gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze; 5 Pan American golds; 31 National U.S. Amateur Athletic Union titles; and 8 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. During those years, he set 33 world records.

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 Mike Eruzione - Captain of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team
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Mike Eruzione was born October 25, 1954 and is an Italian-American former ice hockey player who was the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous Miracle on Ice game. After attending Berwick Academy, Eruzione starred for Boston University, averaging over twenty goals a season for four years. Eruzione also played for Team USA at the 1975 and 1976 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments. He then moved on to the Toledo Goaldiggers of the International Hockey League, winning the rookie of the year award in 1978 and leading the team to the Turner Cup championship in that year.

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 Apolo Anton Ono - Five Time Gold Medal Speed Skater

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Ohno has won five Olympic medals over his career, and is one of only four Americans who has won three medals in a single Winter Olympics game. He has been the reigning U.S. short track speed skating champion since 2001, and has won the U.S. men's title a total of nine times. In 2008, Ohno won his first World Championship overall title.In Salt Lake City, Utah, Apolo Anton Ohno emerged as a popular athlete among USA fans for reportedly charming them with his cheerful attitude and laid-back style. He became the face of short track speed skating in the US, which was a relatively new and unknown sport at the time, and carried the medal hopes of America in that sport.

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 Shawn Johnson - Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast

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An American artistic gymnast Shawn Johnson was born January 19, 1992. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-around champion. At the 2008 Summer Olympics Johnson competed in all four events during the team competition, in which the United States won the silver medal. Johnson also won the silver medal in the individual all-around competition, receiving a score of 62.725. Johnson's teammate Nastia Liukin won the gold medal, receiving a score of 63.325. With Liukin taking gold and Johnson silver, this competition was the first time that the United States Women's Gymnastics team took both the gold and silver medals in the individual all-around competition.

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 Dara Torres - First US Swimmer to Compete in Five Olympics

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US swimmer, Dara Torres was born April 15, 1967. She is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She has won ten Olympic medals, (four gold, two silver, four bronze), five of which she won in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the US Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.

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 Jason Lezak - 2008 US Gold Medal Swimmer

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Gold medal swimmer, Jason Lezak was born November 12, 1975. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Bejing, Lezak was the oldest male on the U.S. swim team. He anchored the U.S. 4x100 meter freestyle relay team that won the gold medal and set a new world record. Lezak is a specialist in the 50 and 100 m freestyle races. He also owns long-course world records in the 400m freestyle and medley relays, as well a former American record holder in the 100 Free. Lezak is one of the few elite swimmers not to have a personal coach. Despite this, Lezak enjoys team sports and fellow American Gary Hall Jr. has dubbed Lezak as a "professional relay swimmer" at the 2004 Olympic Trials before their matchup in the 100m freestyle. He is sponsored by Nike and Rose Bowl Aquatics.

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Dorothy Hamill - 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Skater
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Dorothy Hamill was born July 26, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois and is an American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion. Hamill was U.S. champion from 1974 through 1976. She is credited with developing a new skating move; a camel spin that turns into a sit spin, which became known as the "Hamill camel." The bobbed hairstyle that she wore during her Olympic performance started a fad]. A Dorothy Hamill doll was made in 1977. She quickly became America's sweetheart.

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Jackie Joyner Kersee - US Gold Medal Track and Field Star

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born March 3, 1962 in East St. Louis, Illinois and is a retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those two different events. Sports Illustrated for Women magazine voted Joyner-Kersee the Greatest Female Athlete of the 20th century, just ahead of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. As of August 2008, Joyner-Kersee holds the world record in heptathlon along with six all time best results and her long jump record of 7.49 m is second on the long jump all time list. In addition to heptathlon and long jump, she was a world class athlete in 100 m hurdles and 200 meters being as of June 2006 in top 60 all time in those events.

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 Carl Lewis - Winner of 10 Olympic Gold Medals

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US track star, Carl Lewis was born July 1, 1961, a retired track and field athlete who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is pursuing an acting career. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper who topped the world rankings in the 100 m, 200 m and long jump events frequently from 1981 to the early 1990s, was named Athlete of the Year by Track and Field News in 1982, 1983 and 1984, and set world records in the 100 m, 4 x 100 m and 4 x 200 m relays.

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