This Hungarian epee fencer competed in five Olympic games from 1960 to 1976, winning seven medals including two gold, three silver and two bronze.Most of these medals were won in team events since she...

The first German cyclist to have won the Tour de France in 1997, Jan Ullrich, from ex-East Germany has today become one of the best in professional cycling.At the Sydney games, he gave his opponents a...

A cross-country skier who was one of the great figures of the 1992 winter games in Albertville, where he won three gold medals.Ulvang, who was used to being among the front-runners, gave his country, ...

Umaras was the top pursuit track cyclist at the end of the 1980s. After winning the world championship in 1987 he won two Olympic titles, on his own and with the USSR team on the Seoul track in 1988. ...

Which country, can claim to be the best nation in the world at the Olympic games if it is not the United States.This enormous country has produced the greatest champions of the century since the re-la...

This German lady horse-rider was during a number of years the best in the world at the dressage event. She was four times Olympic champion in the discipline making her one of the greatest Olympic cham...

Urmanov was the first skater to successfully perform a quadruple loop and piqué.Although he had often been well placed in international competitions he had never reached the highest step of the podium...

Association Football is the only sport at which Uruguay has distinguished itself at the games.Uruguay twice won the Olympic tournament, in Paris and in Amsterdam in 1924 and in 1928. This little count...

The Soviet Union has been the most successful nation at the games after the United States, having won at least one Olympic title in just about all the key sports ever since it first started taking par...

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