For several years in the 1920s, Americans hailed LeGendre, a world-record holder and Olympic medalist, as the best athlete in the country and possibly the world.
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Zero risk? Virus cases test Olympic organizers’ assurances
Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19.
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Family ties pull Olympic gold medalist back to Maine
Anna Goodale, a mother of two young boys, left a demanding coaching job at Ohio State for an opportunity to run the community-based rowing club in her hometown of Camden.
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Maine-born boxer Amelia Moore pushed through pandemic to continue Olympic training
Moore, who grew up in Norway, has bounced around the country during the pandemic. She hopes to be in Tokyo for next summer’s Olympics, even if it’s not exactly how she’d imagined it.
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View from Away: We should all take a knee over the Olympic athlete protest crackdown
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