Monday, September 23, 2019

DARA TORRES, RON O'BRIEN, ERIN POPOVICH TO BE INDUCTED INTO US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC HALL OF FAME

The rest of the inductees include:
  • Candace Cable (Para alpine skiing, Para Nordic skiing, Para track and field)
  • Lisa Leslie (basketball), Nastia Liukin (gymnastics)
  • Misty May-Treanor (beach volleyball)
  • Apolo Anton Ohno (short track speedskating)
  • Chris Waddell (Para alpine skiing, Para track and field)
  • the 1998 U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team
  • John Carlos (legend: track and field)
  • Tommie Smith (legend: track and field)
  • Tim Nugent (special contributor)

Dara Torres

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Dara Torres; Photo Courtesy: JM STREINER
  • Twelve-time Olympic medalist
  • tied for most decorated female swimmer in history
  • first American to swim at five Olympics
  • at 41, set three American records en route to three silver medals at Beijing 2008
  • 16-time national champion
  • Inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2016.

Ron O’Brien

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Ron O’Brien (left) with Dick Kimball; Photo Courtesy: ISHOF Archive
  • Coached the U.S. Olympic diving team at eight straight Olympic Games between 1968-1996
  • his divers won 154 gold, 90 silver and 78 bronze medals in major Olympic, world, national, NCAA and Big Ten Conference diving championships in his first 25 years of coaching
  • all 12 U.S. diving individual national titles were won by his divers in 1988
  • inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1988

Erin Popovich


Photo Courtesy: Swimming World Archive
  • Three-time Paralympian and 19-time medalist, including 14 golds
  • won seven golds in seven races, setting three world records and four Paralympic Games records at Athens 2004
  • two-time winner of the ESPY Award for Best Female Athlete with a Disability

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