Harris had also been the last track and field Olympian, although no Princeton distance runner had qualified for the Olympics since class of 1906 Princetonian John Eisele earned a silver medal in the steeplechase and a bronze medal in the three-mile at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
When she was handed the reins of the Tennessee program in 1974, Summitt was a 22-year-old graduate student who was training for the Olympics and teaching classes in badminton, tennis and self-defense.
Australia's basketball governing body will review its travel policy after being criticised for flying its men's team to the London Olympics in business class while putting the women's team in economy class.
Britain will deliver a world-class Olympics, he says.
And, for the fourth consecutive running of the Summer Olympics, the Star class sailor Mark Reynolds will be prospecting for gold.
And when I saw the yearbook, my God, the two of them were everywhere: Adam winning a pie-eating contest; Sam, so handsome in a tuxedo for the school fashion show, blowing glitter from the stage; Sam and Adam dressed in ketchup and mustard costumes, leading the seniors to victory in the class Olympics.
The "purist" idea, it is claimed, was a 19th-century invention to restrict the Olympics to the wealthy classes.
"One can only imagine how many more medals the U.S. could have won if the Olympics allowed more weight classes for women," Merino said.
Bob Beamon, who set a world record for the long jump in the 1968 Olympics, graduated with the class of '65.
At a time when national attention is turned toward the winter Olympics, there is world-class competition closer to home.
