During his teens, Hunter was a champion swimmer, and briefly held a world record for the 100 yards freestyle until his record was broken by John Devitt in the very next heat ten minutes later.

Many philosophers have attempted to deal with this issue ( notably Joseph Almog, David Braun, Michael Devitt, John Perry, Nathan Salmon, Scott Soames, and Howard Wettstein ), but no solution has been widely accepted.

It was devised by John Devitt after he attended the annual commemoration celebrated in Washington for Vietnam veterans.

* 4 February – John Devitt, Olympic swimmer

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

* John Walker ( athlete ) ( born 1952 ), New Zealander winner of the Olympic Games 1500 metre run in 1976, and long-standing champion in the mile run

* John Walker ( rower ) ( 1891 – 1952 ), British coxswain and Olympic medalist

* John Walker ( cyclist ), British Olympic cyclist

John Akii-Bua ( December 3, 1949 – June 20, 1997 ) was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country.

Peter signed his consent for 19-year old John " Weissmuller "' s passport application in 1924, preceding Johnny's Olympic competition in France.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

** In Mexico City, black American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their arms in a black power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres.

** John B. Kelly, Sr., American Olympic rower, father of Grace Kelly ( b. 1889 )

American John Heaton won his second Olympic medal in the skeleton, he won his first 20 years earlier when he was 19 years old.

The race was founded by the former Olympic champion and journalist Chris Brasher and Welsh athlete John Disley.

In honour of her gold medal win in Sydney, she represented Oceania in carrying the Olympic flag at the opening ceremonies of the next Olympics, in Salt Lake City, joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( Africa ), John Glenn ( The Americas ), Kazuyoshi Funaki ( Asia ), Lech Wałęsa ( Europe ), Jean-Michel Cousteau ( Environment ), Jean-Claude Killy ( Sport ), and Steven Spielberg ( Culture ).

Lindy John Remigino ( born June 3, 1931 ) is an American track and field athlete, the 1952 Olympic 100 m champion.

Out of the blocks, John Treloar took a step ahead, but Remigino the eventual Olympic champion and several more quickly picked him up, with Jamaica's Herb McKenley lagging well behind.

Next was Olympic silver medalist John Mugabi of Uganda, who was 26-0 with 26 knockouts and was ranked the number one contender by all three major bodies.

* John Anderson ( athlete ) ( 1907 – 1948 ), American Olympic discus thrower

* The Choir performed over 20 times at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, including at the Opening Ceremonies, where they sang the national anthem and the Olympic Hymn under the direction of John Williams.

* John Hargis -- 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer is a 1992 Clinton high school graduate.

* John Keller, 1952 gold medal-winning U. S. Olympic basketball player

* John Kuck, Olympic shot putter, gold medal at 1928 Summer Olympics.

* John Moffitt, 2004 Olympic silver medalist

* John Mariucci ( 1916 – 1987 ) NHL hockey player, hockey coach for the University of Minnesota, and 1956 US Olympic hockey coach.

* John ( Jack ) Petroske, member of the 1956 mens U. S. Olympic Hockey Team, winning a silver medal.

File: JohnMcFall-Manchester-20070513. jpg | John McFall, who has an above-knee leg amputation, and uses a prosthetic leg, is a sprinter and winner of a gold medal at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup

She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.

Riding high in 1947 with a new contract which provided some script refusal rights and the right to form his own separate production company, Bogart reunited with John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a stark tale of greed involving three gold prospectors played out in the dusty back country of Mexico.

His objectives included finding the source of the West African gold trade and the legendary Christian kingdom of Prester John, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Portuguese coast.

Black, along with old gold and white, has always been one of the team colors, but it wasn't the first choice of original majority owner John W. Mecom, Jr. His preference was for Mecom Blue, a medium shade which was used by all of his other investments.

As to the agreement, John V with a Byzantine naval fleet went to Phocaea, paid the ransom demanded of 100, 000 Byzantine gold pieces, and brought Khalil back to Ottoman territory.

Paschal remained unconvinced, and while pretending to accept Sergius, sent messengers to the exarch of Ravenna John Platyn promising gold in exchange for military support.

Certain colours of lighting have been associated with specific wrestlers ; for instance, blue lighting for Undertaker, green lighting for Triple H, D-Generation X, and Shane McMahon, red and orange lighting for Kane, multicoloured lighting for John Morrison, gold lighting for Goldust, pink lighting for Val Venis, and so forth.

From November 17, 1947 to December 23, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT & T's Bell Labs in the United States, performed experiments and observed that when two gold point contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, a signal was produced with the output power greater than the input.

Instead, he cast his ballot for John M. Palmer, the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party, or Gold Democrats, a short-lived party that supported a gold standard, low tariffs, and limited government.

Conrad's father John Reed learns that the rock is actually gold in 1802, initiating the first gold rush in the United States.

Two men, one named Stevenson and the other John Thomas, claimed to have in their possession a cache of gold smuggled out of South Carolina.

John Maynard Keynes, who had argued against such a gold standard, proposed to put the power to print money in the hands of the privately owned Bank of England.

Popes such as John XXII, Benedict XII and Clement VI reportedly spent fortunes on expensive wardrobe, and at banquets, silver and gold plates were used.

The only gold man who put together any sort of campaign for the Democratic nomination was Treasury Secretary John G. Carlisle, but he withdrew in April, stating that he was more concerned about the platform of the party than who would lead it.

This theory draws its roots from two almost diametrically opposed ideas: the hard money policies that dominated monetary thinking in the late 19th century, and the monetary theories of John Maynard Keynes, who, working in the inter-war period during the failure of the restored gold standard, proposed a demand-driven model for money which was the foundation of macroeconomics.

Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.

He sent Michael Palaiologos and John Doukas, both of whom held the high imperial rank of sebastos, with Byzantine troops, 10 Byzantine ships, and large quantities of gold to invade Apulia ( 1155 ).

Under John II's watch, the gold and slave trade in west Africa was greatly expanded.

She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.

He was particularly pleased to receive the University ’ s gold medal in obstetrics from his distinguished fellow-Welshman, Sir John Williams.