Phelps, Vonn among U.S. Olympic, Paralympic Hall of Fame inductees
Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King as well as the belated Pat Summitt are on the list of nine specific ladies who will undoubtedly be inducted in to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame come early july, along side Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom.
Others voted on the 2022 course on a ballot that is crowded Natalie Coughlin (swimming), Muffy Davis (Para Alpine skiing and cycling), David Kiley (Para alpine skiing, track and field and wheelchair basketball), Trischa Zorn-Hudson (Para swimming) and Gretchen Fraser (skiing).
The 1976 women’s 4×100-metre relay that is freestyle team, anchored by Shirley Babashoff in its stunning upset on the East Germans, as well as the 2002 males’s Paralympic sled hockey group additionally had been voted in to the hallway by a mixture of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, news and administrators and fans.
The induction ceremony is placed for June 24 during the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum.
This may be the Hall that is first class 2019; before that, there hadn’t been a class since 2012. The gaps have led to a list that is large of applicants. This year are Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Dawn Staley and two-time Olympic gold-medal wrestler John Smith.(*)Led by a record-setting 28 medals and 23 golds won by swimmer Phelps, this year’s class has captured a total of 129 medals, including 86 gold.(*) among those who did not make the cut: CBC Sports
