Canada in the men 's event , while Amy Williams 's win in the women 's event gave Great Britain its only medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics , as well as its first individual gold medalist since 1980 , and first individual female gold medalist since 1952 .
After retiring from competition Schneider became a coach , leading the Canadian skeleton team to three medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin ( a gold for Duff Gibson , a silver for Jeff Pain and a bronze for Melissa Hollingsworth ) , and coaching Jon Montgomery to victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver .
From that date onwards Vesta had increasing success on the water not the least of which included Harry Blackstaffe ’ s double victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe Diamond sculls at Henley Royal Regatta , the Wingfield Sculls on the Thames in 1906 and Olympic Gold medal in the 1908 London Olympics .
In 1908 she won the gold medal in the women 's singles event at the 1908 Summer Olympics after a straight-sets victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe final against compatriot Dora Boothby .
For Winter sports Liukkonen commentated Matti Nykänen 's first World Champion victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorlarge hill in Oslo 1982 and Marjo Matikainen 's Olympic gold medal victory in women 's 5 km skiing in Calgary 1988 .
Hellner was Sweden 's first male individual gold medalist in the traditional cross-country skiing distances at the Winter Olympics since Gunde Svan 's 50 km victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorCalgary in 1988 .
Kowalczyk is the first woman from Poland to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics and only the second overall , after Wojciech Fortuna 's victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe ski jumping individual large hill event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo .
His birthplace Yoichi is also the home of Yukio Kasaya , who was a Japanese national hero with his Normal Hill victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo .
McAulay was the referee in the Jacksonville Jaguars ' controversial 15–10 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Browns Stadium on December 16 , 2001 which notoriously ended with a display of unruly fan behavior .
The highlight of the 2002 season was Carter leading Dallas to a dramatic come from behind win for the second time in three weeks ( the other one was against the St. Louis Rams ) , on his 25th birthday he turned a 13-0 deficit to the Carolina Panthers , into a 14-13 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthrowing an 80-yard touchdown pass to Joey Galloway with 3:55 left , then a 24-yarder to Antonio Bryant with 56 seconds to go .
The program , the first such series to air on any American television network , premiered on May 10 , 2007 with a re-air of the Chicago Bears ' `` Monday Night Football '' comeback victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Arizona Cardinals in 2006 .
Her original inspiration for getting involved in athletics came from Sebastian Coe 's victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe men 's 1500 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics , and she dreamt of competing at the Olympics .
This increase in the number of active rowers has been attributed in particular to Rob Waddell 's gold medal victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 2000 Sydney Olympic Games .
During the 2007–2008 National Football League season , Specter wrote to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell concerning the destruction of New England Patriots “ Spygate ” tapes , wondering if there was a link between the tapes and their Super Bowl victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Philadelphia Eagles .
Following a season-ending biceps injury in the Cowboys ' victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe New York Giants in Week 1 of the 2007 season , Ferguson lost his starting job to Jay Ratliff .
With Jake Delhomme out for the 2007 season due to an elbow injury he suffered in a Week 3 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Atlanta Falcons , and David Carr out with a sore back , the Panthers signed Testaverde on October 10 , 2007 .
According to ESPN.com news services , ESPN 's telecast of the New York Giants ' 36-22 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Dallas Cowboys on Monday , October 23 , 2006 was viewed by the largest audience in cable history .
Aside from the various bowls , the most memorable moment at the stadium might have been the Saints victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Detroit Lions on November 8 , 1970 .
As a young man he played football for local teams but switched to running after watching a newsreel film of Emil Zátopek 's 10,000 metres victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1948 London Olympics .
The winning margin of victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe second largest in this event in Winter Olympics history with Paul Hildgartner of Italy 's win over Sergey Danilin of the then-Soviet Union at the 1984 Games being larger ( 0.704 seconds )
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , two American track and field athletes , Tommie Smith and John Carlos , who finished first and third in the 200 meters , performed the Black Power salute on the victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honor.
Frank Shorter 's 1972 Games of the XX Olympiad marathon victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe convergence of many middle-class American ideals .
The participation in the following Games was to be , however , Portugal 's best as Carlos Lopes paved his way to victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe marathon , and the national anthem echoed for the first time inside an Olympic stadium .
Thurman had three interceptions , including a 39-yard return for touchdown to clinch a victorysports.sports_team_season_recordTexas Stadium , in the 1982 NFL playoffs second round against the Green Bay Packers .
It was the first Olympic gold for the United States in diving since the 2000 Summer Olympics , when Laura Wilkinson won the gold in the women 's 10-meter platform competition ; the first Olympic gold in the 10-meter platform competition by an American male diver since Greg Louganis achieved that feat at the 1988 Summer Olympics ( also taking the 3-meter springboard title ) ; and the first Olympic diving gold for an American man since Mark Lenzi 's victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 3-meter springboard competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics .
At the 1984 Winter Olympics , Wassberg beat out fellow Swede Gunde Svan by 4.9 seconds in the 50 km , the closest margin of victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorin that event until Giorgio Di Centa ( Italy ) edged out Yevgeny Dementyev ( Russia ) by 0.8 seconds at the 2006 Winter Olympics though the 2006 event was a mass start event while the 1984 event was an interval start event .
Di Centa 's greatest victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorin the 50 km race where he defeated Russian Eugeni Dementiev by 0.8 seconds , the closest 50 km event in Olympic history , eclipsing Thomas Wassberg 's 4.9 second victory over Gunde Svan ( both Sweden ) at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .
This margin of victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe previous record of 4.9 seconds set at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo between fellow Swedes Thomas Wassberg and Gunde Svan .
The 2004 Olympics in Athens was lit up by Jamaican golden girl Veronica Campbell , first she won bronze in the 100 m , next she won gold in the 200 m to become the first Caribbean woman to win an individual sprint event at the Olympics , then she anchored the 4x100 m team that included Lawrence , Aleen Bailey and Sherone Simpson to a famous victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honor
The Swiss gymnast , Jack Günthard , winner of the Gold medal Horizontal bar at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics about Alfred Schwarzmann : `` The victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorhave belonged to Alfred – but he was a German '' ( `` Der Sieg hätte eigentlich Alfred gebührt – aber er war eben Deutscher . '' )
He entered Asahi Kasei after graduating , and won the All-Japan Judo Championships in 1996 to gain a spot on the Japanese Olympic judo team for the 1996 Summer Olympics , where he won a close decision victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorKwak Dae-Sung of South Korea to receive a gold medal .
On February 1992 , Thierry , with mountain guide Alain Ledoux , performed a series of nine figures during 1992 Winter Olympics from a cable car of Val-d'Isère on the night of Alberto Tomba 's historic victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honor
His most recent victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , defeating Amir Khan in the final , and retaining his gold medal from four years earlier .
Following their victorysports.sports_team_season_recordSuper Bowl IV , the Chiefs returned to the playoffs in 1971 , but lost in double overtime to the Miami Dolphins in the divisional round in the longest game in NFL history , the final game at Kansas City .
Military service caused him to miss the second half of the season , although he returned in time for the Cowboys ' victorysports.sports_team_season_recordSuper Bowl VI over the Miami Dolphins and never relinquished the position after 1971 .
The Cowboys made the playoffs every year of Reeves 's playing days , reaching the Super Bowl twice and culminating in a 24-3 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI following the 1971 season .
Williams became the first British gold medalist in an individual event at the Winter Olympics for thirty years , following Robin Cousins ' victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorfigure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , and the first British female individual Winter Olympics gold medalist since Jeannette Altwegg in 1952 .
Williams became the first British gold medallist in an individual event at the Winter Olympics for 30 years , following Robin Cousins ' victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorfigure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , and the first British female individual Winter Olympics gold medallist since Jeannette Altwegg in 1952 .
The `` kneel '' or `` victorysports.sports_team_season_recordformation was developed in the 1978 NFL season after The Miracle at the Meadowlands , a botched final play in a game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles which resulted in a fumble and a pivotal last-second score .
Tom Landry 's team got off to another fast start , opening the season with a 44–14 trouncing of their longtime nemesis , the Redskins , and later defeating the Steelers ( their first victorysports.sports_team_season_recordPittsburgh since 1972 ) to give the team a 5–1 record and an early two-game lead over the rest of the division .
In the team 's third game of the 1970 NFL season , Phipps came off the bench to lead a 15-7 comeback victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe Pittsburgh Steelers .
On the final play of his NFL career , Atkins sacked Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dick Shiner , preserving the Saints ' 27–24 victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe 1969 season finale .
Adrian Moorhouse was a gold medal winning Olympian in swimming , earning victoryolympics.olympic_medal_honorthe 1988 Summer Olympics , he also won gold at three European Championships and three Commonwealth Games .
In the 1981 NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers , Pearson almost rendered `` The Catch '' irrelevant when , in the waning moments of the game , he caught a long pass from Danny White that would 've gone for a touchdown and won the game for the Cowboys had 49ers cornerback Eric Wright not made a one-handed tackle , stopping him just outside field-goal range ( White fumbled on the next play , thus preserving victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe 49ers and putting them in Super Bowl XVI ) .
He registered nine or more tackles seven times in the 2004 NFL season , including an AFC Wild Card victorysports.sports_team_season_recordthe San Diego Chargers .