“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the motto of the Olympic ... receive their medals. Then, as the U.S. flag was raised and the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the two black athletes ...

“When he got here, he was told that the 100 and the high hurdle were white ... into the Olympic record books in 1924 as the first Black athlete to win an individual gold medal.

It was medal-mania at the Stade de France for the red, white and blue on Thursday ... Grant Holloway won that elusive Olympic gold medal. Jasmine Moore made some American jumping history.

1988 Olympic 100m Butterfly gold medal winner Anthony Nesty of ... understands the significance of his role as a Black coach in a predominantly white sport, and he takes it “seriously.” ...

Nesty was the first Black swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. Peter Westbrook, the first Black man to win an Olympic medal in fencing ...

Scruggs made history as the first Black American woman to win an individual medal in fencing. It also marked the first time American women won both gold and silver Olympic medals at individual ...