GailDevers, who repeated in 1992 and 1996, and Wyomia Tyus, who won in 1964 and 1968, are the only other women to repeat as Olympic 100-meter champion.
He was a left-handed pitcher with no right hand who threw a no-hitter for the New York Yankees. (Jim Abbott.) He ran in the Olympic Games on prosthetic legs. (Oscar Pistorius.) She sprinted to an Olympic gold even though they once nearly amputated her feet. (Gail Devers.) You can't make up stories like those.