At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the Dream Team, America’s basketball superstars including Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, won gold with an array of blistering performances
Paul Doyle: At the 1972 Munich Olympics, a young Soviet athlete stunned the crowd, winning three gold medals and pulling off the move that became known as ‘the Korbut flip’
Evan Fanning: The boy from blue-collar Baltimore was desperate to become the greatest Olympian of all time – and achieved the improbable feat by collecting eight gold medals in the Beijing pool in 2008
Simon Burnton: Winning the 5,000m, the 10,000m and the marathon in 1952, Emil Zatopek became a sporting legend. His remarkable personality and a gruelling training regime led to his success
Rob Bagchi: The Great Britain team captain Linford Christie went one better than his silver in 1988 when at the age of 32 he became the oldest person to capture 100m Olympic gold and only the third Briton
Rob Bagchi: Wilma Rudolph overcame childhood polio to bring home a bronze medal from Melbourne aged 16 and win a sprint treble four years later to show ‘the potential for greatness lives within us all’
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