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James S. Rockefeller
July 7, 1924

Mel Patton
August 2, 1948

Bob Mathias
July 21, 1952

Parry O'Brien
December 3, 1956

Rafer Johnson
August 29, 1960

Mark Spitz
September 11, 1972

Murder at the Olympics
September 18, 1972

Dorothy Hamill
February 2, 1976

Nadia Comaneci
August 2, 1976

Olympic Skaters
February 11, 1980

America's Olympics
October 17, 1983

Olympic Dreams
January 30, 1984

Olympic Turmoil
May 5, 1984

Carl Lewis
July 30, 1984

Carl Lewis
August 13, 1984

Peter Ueberoth
January 7, 1985

Debi Thomas
February 15, 1988

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
September 19, 1988

Kim Zmeskal
July 27, 1992

Nancy Kerrigan
February 21, 1994

Special Issue: The Summer Olympics
Summer 1996

Olympic Bombing
August 5, 1996

Michael Johnson
August 12, 1996