It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

No black man had played for a major league baseball team since eighteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

It was built by a man named Eise Eisinga starting in seventeen seventy-four.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

It seems hard to believe that it had been 62 years since the Americans had won Olympic gold in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

This man said, "Twelve or 13 boats attacked us, along with four or five helicopters."

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

I drove as best I could and came out victorious." The Holcomb,29, said it was a thrill to end the long U.S.drought in the four-man bobsled.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

Bill Demong became the first-ever American to win a gold medal in Nordic Combined and the Steve Holcomb drove his four-man bobsled team to the first U.S.Olympic gold medal in the event in 62 years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

four-man bobsled driver. "I'm just elated." "And I can't tell you how proud I am of Holcomb and the gang and for Steve to pull it together and hold it together in just his second Olympic Games.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28