From the moment Paavo Nurmi, winner of a record nine Olympic gold medals between 1920 and 1928 and a man known as the original "Flying Finn", entered the stadium with the Olympic torch and passed ...

After emigrating to the U.S. from his native Ireland in 1897, Martin Sheridan went on to become one of the top U.S. Olympic medal winners in history. His total of nine Olympic medals is surpassed only ...