Confusion: Shani Davis the first African American Athlete to win in the Winter Olympics?
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He was the first INDIVIDUAL black gold medalist at the Winter Olympics.  Other golds have been won in team events.
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Earl Davis carried the Olympic torch in early Dec. 2001 on its way to the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
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Mike Davis (born September 15, 1960 in Fayette, Alabama) is the men's basketball coach of the Indiana Hoosiers.Davis is married to the former Mrs. Tamilya Floyd. The couple has a son, Antoine. Davis is also the father of Mike Davis, Jr., who is a redshirt sophomore on the IU men's basketball team, another son, Robert, and a daughter, Lateesha.\n\nmore here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_%28coach%29
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Who says 400 is more important that the 1500? In international meets,the 1500 is considered to be one of the premier events.\n\nWhen it comes to TV coverage of an particular meet, the the producers may feel that the athletes in a particular race have a more compelling story.\n\nCathy Freeman will always be remembered because she was the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic medal (Atlanta) and she won the gold medal in her own country four years later.
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From www.olympic.org:\n\nEddie Eagan (USA-bobsleigh and boxing) achieved a unique feat by winning gold medals in both summer and winter sports. In 1920, he won the light-heavyweight boxing championship. Twelve years later, he reappeared at the Winter Olympics and won the four-man bobsleigh event.
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Judge from the stats, I would say Irina Rodnina & Alexander Zaitsev.  They won Olympics in 1976, 1980 (Irina also won 1972 with Alexei Ulanov), and World Champions in 1973-1978 (Irina also won with Alexei Ulanov from 1969-1972).  It's hard to find someone so dominant.
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I don't see a problem.  It's not like you're saying "all black athletes are better than white athletes" or "all white students are better than black students."  However, the conclusions you draw by looking at a small sample of athletes or a pile of numbers are somewhat faulty.  Here's why:  Yes, there are a lot more black athletes in the NBA than white athletes, but how many black hockey players do you know?  They are some of the strongest, fastest, toughest guys on the planet.  Also, it may be true that statistics show blacks as not scoring as high on aptitude tests than whites, but we have charter schools in Detroit that are 95% black students (or better) and these kids are scoring higher on the SAT/ACT than their white counterparts in the suburban Christian academies.  My point is this:  Be careful about making general comments about any given race, and try to look at the whole picture when using "evidence" to back up your claims.
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Clas Thunberg won 2 gold on 500m and 1500m but couln't try for a third medal cause the ice was thawing.\nHe was equal by Johan Gröttumsbraate who won the nordic combiend and the 18 km in the cross-country skiing
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Are you referring to Michelle Kwan?\n\nShe won a silver at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, and a bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake.\n\nShe was named to the US figure skating team after an injury made it impossible for her to qualify at the US nationals tournament.  During her first day of practice in Torino, she re-injured herself and subsequently withdrew from competition.  The team's first alternate, Emily Hughes--younger sister of 2002 gold medal winner Sarah Hughes--took Kwan's place.
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none.  she retired in  1975 thus didnot compete in the 1976 olympics
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There are a lot of firsts but 1st gold medal winner ever is James Connolly, other examples are as such\nWyomia Tyus was the first person to win the Olympic gold medal twice in the 100m 1964 Games in Tokyo\n\nEagan, "Eddie" (Edward P. F.)\nBobsledding, Boxing,was also the only athlete ever to win gold medals at both the Summer and the Winter Olympics.in 1920 as a light heavyweight,In 1932 four-man bobsled team \n\nand it goes on. I'm full of useless trivia when it comes to the Olympics, especially track & field.
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Not Wayne Gretzky.\n\nTeemu Selanne scored 76 in 92-93 to lead the NHL, it was his first season in the league.
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Robert Richards: Gold Medallist in the Men's Pole Vault (Helsinki 1952)\nMichael Johnson: Gold Medallist in the Men's 200m / 400m (Atlanta 1996)
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the us came in second with 25 medals. 9 gold 9 silver and 7 bronze medals. \n\nthe meadilists are... \n\ngold medals... alpine skiing- ted ligity, julia mancusco\nshort track- apolo anton ohno snowboarding-shaun white, hannah teter  speedskating- joey cheek, shani davis,chad hedrick\n\nsilver medals... bobsled- fleming/rohbock figure skating- belbin/agosto, sasha cohen snowboarding- danny cass, gretchen bleiler, lindsay jacobellis speed skating- joey cheek, shani davis, chad hedrick \n\nbronze medals... curling- team usa freestyle skiing- toby dawson ice hockey- women ice hockey team usa short track- kepka, smith, izykowski, ohno snowboarding-rosey fletcher speedskating-chad hedrick. \n\nhope you like it!
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jazzie606 and ong jon  pretty much have it right.\n\nBasketball is not a 'black' game... it's a city game.\n\nHistorically, whatever 'group' of people comprise the majority of inner city populations, also happened to be the dominant players in basketball.\n\nBack in the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of inner city residents were Jewish, Jewish players dominated basketball. As we moved into the 1940s and 1950s, Jews moved out of the inner cities, blacks from the south moved into the inner cities, and basketball was soon dominated by black players.\n\nI remember on an NBC special re: the dominance of blacks in sports, they interviewed a Jewish player from the 1930s, and he said that "we used to say that every Jewish kid was born with a basketball in his hands"... of course, the same was later said about blacks.\n\nBut basketball is a city game (don't need much space or equipment to play), and this is why the majority of the best/most exciting players come from big ciites.
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http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1997/JSH2403/jsh2403f.pdf\n\nhalfback Dave Showell, an African American, from the contest ... Integrating New Year's Day. David Anthony Showell's presence on the ...\n\nThere's way to much info to put here.
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During the Torino Olympics Cindy Klassen (Speed Skating)from Canada won 5 medals. 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze. That's made her the biggest winner in Torino.\n\nIn 1980, in Lake PLacid, Eric Heiden from USA won 5 gold medals. That I think is the best in one olympics.\n\nBut, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Biathlon) is the most decorated athlete. He had 6 medals before the Torino games and add three other medals. So he has now 9 winter olympic medals (5-3-1).