Before becoming a renowned pediatrician, he was a star rower at Yale & won gold in the 1924 Olympics
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Benjamin Spock Biography - Childhood, Life ... - Famous People  Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician, most noted as the author of one of the bestselling ... In 1925, he attended the medical school at Yale before getting transferred to 'Columbia University's ... In 1924, he won an Olympic gold medal in rowing while attending Yale University. ... Social Media Stars  Teens and Kids.
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Dr. Benjamin Spock was Olympic rower at Yale long before he was  Aug 2, 2012 ... But before he became 'the baby doc', the New Haven native was a world class rower who won Olympic gold at the Paris games in 1924.
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Benjamin Spock - Wikipedia  Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903  March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the best-sellers of all time. ... Spock also won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending ... At Yale, he was inducted into the senior society Scroll and Key.
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Gentle Ben - People  Mar 30, 1998 ... The renowned pediatrician's health had been ebbing for months, worn down by ... Though he had escaped a close call last Octoberand was being tended to ... at 4 p.m., swaddled his patient in blankets and set him before the fire. ... on to earn a gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics (the same games that...
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Schools With the Most Olympic Medals - Best Colleges  21 new medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics (9 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze) ... to become the most decorated female track and field athlete in U.S. Olympic history. ... the first person to win gold medals in springboard and platform diving in 1924, ... medals at the Rio games in events like fencing, rowing, and men's volleyball.
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Harvard University and the Emergence of International Collegiate ...  These two events serve as the earliest accounts involving athletic ... 1869 Harvard's rowing crew set sail from New York to England to compete against ... excitement to-day over the great interna- tional boat race has been intense. The banks of the Thames have been lined with specta- tors since an early hour this morning.
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias - Wikipedia  Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved a great deal of success in golf, basketball and track and field. She won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics, ... Although her three eldest siblings were born in Norway, Babe and her three other siblings were born in...
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Boxing 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Mar 23, 2016 ... As a result, Americans won all seven possible gold medals (and all ... is the only boxer in history to win two titles at a single Games. .... American "Smokin' Joe" Frazier (left) won gold in the heavyweight division at the Tokyo Games in 1964. ... At the 1968 Olympics, George Foreman gave the United States its...
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Olympic swimming results 2016: Joseph Schooling beats Michael ...  Aug 12, 2016 ... Singapore's Joseph Schooling won the gold medal in the men's individual 100-meter butterfly race, setting an Olympic record with a time of...
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Olympic Swimming History Question [Archive] - U.S. Masters ...  Could she (or her grandfather) have been referring to the Olympic Trials? ... I grew up on the banks of the Hudson after we relocated from .... Gertrude in 3 paragraphs. At the 1924 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a part of ... Later that year, she made her first attempt at swimming the Channel,...
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Tennis at the Summer Olympics - Wikipedia  Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics due to disputes between the International Lawn Tennis Federation and the International Olympic Committee over allowing amateur players to compete. ... A player who wins an Olympic gold medal and all four Grand Slam events is...
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Track and Field 101: Olympic history | NBC Olympics  Mar 15, 2016 ... In 1996, Michael Johnson won 200m and 400m Olympic gold medals ... at the 1936 Berlin Games by winning gold medals in the 100m, 200m, ... Bruce Jenner continued America's string of success in the event, joining luminaries Jim Thorpe, Bob Mathias and Rafer Johnson as Olympic gold medalists.
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Alexi Grewal - Wikipedia  Alexi Singh Grewal is an Indian-American Olympic gold medalist and former professional road racing cyclist. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Grewal became the first American man to win an Olympic gold medal in road cycling.
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Sport-by-sport Olympic capsules | Newsday  Jul 20, 2012 ... A look at what to watch for in each Olympic sport. ... COUNTRY, G, S, B, TOTAL .... American Eddie Eagan, the Olympic light-heavyweight champion at the ... is the only person to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. .... straight wins over 40 years, beginning with the 1924 Paris Games...
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Dr. Benjamin Spock Books  Dr. Benjamin Spock was a pediatrician, author, political activist, Olympic gold medalist and presidential candidate. ... practices in his writings.2 The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care has been ... copies worldwide.2 In addition to his books, he wrote columns for numerous ... 1965: Caring for Your Disabled Child'.
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Oscar De La Hoya - Boxer - Biography.com  Dec 22, 2014 ... Boxer Oscar De La Hoya, also known as "The Golden Boy," was born in ... De La Hoya won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics at the age of 19, and ... the first boxer to win titles in five divisions, from welter to light heavyweight.
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50 stunning Olympic moments: No8 Eric Liddell's 400 metres win ...  Jan 4, 2012 ... But Harold Abrahams, who in 1924 won the 100m gold medal  the ... In Stoke on Trent in July 1923, in a race run over a quarter of a mile, ... after discovering in January  not, as suggested in Chariots of Fire, ... a year after the Olympics, in June 1925, when he won the 100 yards, ..... Please try again later.
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Josh Prenot takes silver in 200m breaststroke; first ... - NBC Olympics  Aug 10, 2016 ... It's the first American medal in the 200m breaststroke since Brendan Hansen in 2004. ... had won a medal in the 200m breaststroke since Mike Barrowman won gold in 1992 ... Swimming medal streaks to watch at 2016 Rio Olympics. Michael Phelps could win his fourth consecutive Olympic gold in either the...
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Tara Lipinski becomes youngest Olympic figure skating gold medalist  In 1994, at age 12, she won a gold medal at the U.S. Olympic Festival, a junior-level competition. ... At the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Lipinski and teammate Michelle Kwan ... Kwan took home the silver medal and China's Chen Lu won the bronze. ... Oksana Baiul from Ukraine won the gold in women's figure skating.).
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List of Olympic medalists in speed skating - Wikipedia  At the 1924 Winter Olympics, Finn Clas Thunberg became the first athlete to win two or more gold medals; in 1928, he became the first speed skater to...
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1924 Paris Olympics Duke Kahanamoku & Johnny Weissmuller ...  1924 Olympics - Johnny Weissmuller 100m, 400m, 4x200- Gold ..... Olympic swimmer and Tarzan film star Johnny Weissmuller won five gold medals in swimming. .... He was a US Olympic gold medalist swimmer, who later became an actor best known ...... The first female to swim 100-meter backstroke in under 60 seconds.