Chen Ruolin
Chen Ruolon began diving at age four and joined the Chinese National Team at eleven years old. Ruolin is a five-time Chinese Olympic gold medalist diver who recently announced her retirement at the age of 23 due to a neck injury. She made her first Olympic appearance in Beijing 2008 when she was fifteen years old. A powerhouse in the diving world, with five gold medals under her name. Ruolin’s neck injuries in 2016 have forced her out of competing for good, it seems. Ruolin has competed in three Olympics, though, and is one of only three Chinese athletes with five gold medals. The 10-meter dive is a severe competition, but she dove ahead of the other contenders and won a gold pair at each of her Olympic appearances except for her final one.
Chen Ruolin
Gary Hall Jr.
Gary Hall Jr. came from a family of swimmers. At a young age, he already started to be trained by his father Gary Hall Sr., a 10-time World Record Holder, 3-time Olympian, and 1976 Olympic Games US Flagbearer and The Race Club co-founder. Hall Jr. won five gold medals in three different Olympic Games, but he may best remember because he used to warm up like a prizefighter. Completing his look with a robe and boxing shorts, Hall would even start shadow boxing and flexing for his fans. He got fined at the 2004 Games. These warm-ups came in handy when he saved his sister’s life in a shark attack by repeatedly punishing the animal until it swam off. His success gave him a total of twenty-four medals, thirteen of that is gold, eight of them are silver, and three are bronze.
Gary Hall Jr.