Figure Skating icon Peggy Fleming making history. ⭐ In fact, she was the only American to take home a gold medal at the Grenoble 1968 Olympic Winter Games. Relive this iconic moment from 54 years ago! ISU Figure Skating | Olympics

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1968 Olympics: Women's Swimming Trials

At the 1968 Mexico City Games, Madeline Manning Mims broke Olympic records as the American women’s 800 meter Olympic champion! A silver medalist in 1972, and on the Olympic team in 1976 and 1980, only the boycott of the Moscow games kept her from participating in her fourth Olympiad. This year Madeline Manning Mims, founder of the US Council for Sports Chaplaincy, returns to the games of the Thirty-First Olympiad—as a Team USA chaplain. In a "like mother, like daughter" scenario, she has helped