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The Greatest Summer Olympic Moments of All Time: Mary Lou Retton, Muhammad Ali and More
These 10 athletes made Closer's list of the greatest summer Olympic moments of all time, including Mary Lou Retton, Muhammad Ali, Michael Phelps and more.
“I tried as hard as I [could], that’s very precious to me,” said Flo-Jo of taking gold three times at the Seoul 1988 Games — including in the 200-meter race, setting a world record that still stands today. At the 1936 Games in Berlin, Jesse struck a blow against the Nazi theory of a master race as the first American to win four gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics. In 1976, this young Romanian athlete came to Montreal and made history as the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 — a feat she’d do five more times en route to three gold medals.
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