"It's really awesome, " said Clark when asked how she felt about winning the first gold medal for the United States.
You said in one of your quotes that the first gold medal is always the most special, but this one must have been almost as special, at least as the first one?
Helen Glover, 26, won gold in the women's pair at London 2012 with her partner Heather Stanning, becoming the first British gold medal winners of the Games.
Meanwhile Britain continue the hunt for for their first gold medal of the championships.
The victory gave Italy its first gold medal of the championships.
Mellouli's victory in the grueling race, in front of hundreds of spectators living the banks of the Serpentine, gave Tunisia its first gold medal of the 2012 London Games.
In the rugby sevens competition, England and Wales lost out in the quarter-finals to Australia and New Zealand respectively - and it was the All Blacks who would eventually claim the first rugby sevens gold medal.
The trio were clinching Britain's first gold medal of the championships.
The 27-year-old became the first Irishman to win a gold medal at the championships for 117 years.
Among the guests at the garden party were Olympians, Paralympians and London 2012 officials, including swimmer Rebecca Adlington and Helen Glover, the rower who won Team GB's first gold medal at the games.
Foreign awards include the Mongolian Meritorious Service Medal, First Class, the Polish Army Medal in Gold, and the Taiwan Order of Cloud and Banner with Special Cravat.
Shaun White went public today for the first time since the two-time Olympic gold medal snowboarder was arrested at a Nashville, Tennessee hotel Sunday on charges of vandalism and public intoxication.
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He was also recently the Chef de Mission of Indonesian delegation in the 2012 Olympics, but later resigned because of the failure of the athletes to bring home a gold medal the first time this has happened in two decades (although Indonesia did win one silver and one bronze).
Hunt succumbed to 21-year-old Erika Anschutz in the final, in the young American's first ever gold medal match, but defeated Canada's Ashley Williams along the way, the woman who pipped Hunt to first place in Croatia.
The motion also asks for a local cycle trail to be named after Kenny, who won his first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The US failed to win the gold medal in Athens - the first time an NBA-based team had done so at the Olympics.
The Chelsea Flower Show award was the first time a Leeds garden had won a gold medal at the prestigious event.
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The first one is special in some respects because you have a dream to try and achieve something and if you have your dream of trying to win Olympic gold medal the first one is that becoming reality.
He changed the face of the Games forever by being the first Chinese man to ever win a track gold medal, with victory in the 110m hurdles.
It was against this background of tightly regimented Nazi showcasing that, on August 3, Owens started competing in Berlin's 100, 000-seater Olympic Stadium, winning his first gold medal in the 100 meters (equaling the Olympic record with his time of 10.3 seconds).
In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
Mohamed Salah increased the pressure on Brazil, who are seeking to win their first Olympic football gold medal, with his goal 14 minutes from the end, but Egypt couldn't find an equalizer.
ATHENS, Greece -- Udomporn Polsak became the first Thai woman to strike Olympic gold as Asian athletes enjoyed another medal-laden day at the Games.
Monday night in London, Franklin won her first gold medal, in the 100-meter backstroke.
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Meanwhile, Spanish veteran Marta Dominguez finally claimed her first gold medal when taking the women's 3, 000m steeplechase.
The latest winner is Nicola Adams, from Leeds, who became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte won her country's first swimming medal ever as an independent nation, winning gold in the final medal event of the night, the women's 100-meter breaststroke.
The day's first track and field gold medal went to Ethiopia's Meseret Defar, who bested Kenya's Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot by less than half a second to win the women's 5, 000-meter race.
Britain's first ever gold medal was won by Margaret Maughan that year in archery - the first sport to be included in Guttman's treatment plans.
Andy Murray joined the group last year, when he won a gold medal in singles at the London Olympic Games and his first major title at the U.S. Open.
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