Gabrielle Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas became both the first American to claim gold medals in the team and individual all-around events and the first African American to win the all-around title. Douglas grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where she started to practice gymnastics from the age of six. She then left her family and moved in West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with prominent coach Liang Chow. In 2011, She was named to the senior national team and helped the United States earn the team gold at the 2011 world championships, where she also placed fifth on the uneven bars. Douglas was only 16 when she won the individual all-around gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. In November 2014, Douglas returned to the U.S. national team after taking two years off from competitive gymnastics. At the 2015 artistic gymnastics world championships, she won a gold medal in the team event and a silver in the all-around. The following year she won the team gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games but failed to win an individual medal. She continued to make splashes as she grew older and helped the American team take home gold that year. The next Olympics, the 2016 Rio Games, Douglas took home another gold medal. That was the same year she starred in her TV show, Douglas Family Gold, a reality show that ran for one season.
Gabrielle Douglas
Summer Sanders
She represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, becoming a hero for her four medal-winning performance. She also won eight national championships. After her swimming career ended, Sanders became a broadcaster, working on several sports-related programs. Sanders became the most decorated US swimmer at the 1992 Olympics, winning four medals: two gold, one silver, and one bronze. The first memory you may have of Summer Sanders might be when she appeared on TV as the host of a Nickelodeon show Figure It Out, which premiered in 1997. Her start, though, was winning four medals swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The camera liked her a lot and, with her experience as an Olympic champion, she is the perfect sports commentator. Sanders was still competing when she began giving commentary for various sporting events, but she’s since retired from competitive swimming. Sanders became an advocate of skin cancer when she was diagnosed and undergone surgery. She is now enjoying her life with her two kids with her husband, Erik Schlopy, who is an Olympic skier.
Summer Sanders