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Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 2 team. He is recognised as an American by the International Olympic Committee although he was a German national at the time of the Games.
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US women's rowers head medal challenge for London 2012
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
July 4 - Mary Whipple and Caryn Davies, gold medallists in the women's eight at the Beijing Games, are among 14 former Olympians selected for a 44-strong United States rowing team at the London Games.Whipple, who is the coxswain, and Davies (pictured), who were also both silver medallists at the Athens 2004 Games, will once again be in the eight at their third Olympics.
Other returning Olympians include David Banks, Erin Cafaro, Susan Francia, Scott Gault, Elliot Hovey, Ken Jurkowski, Megan Kalmoe, Giuseppe Lanzone, Caroline Lind, Eleanor Logan, Brett Newlin and Wes Piermarini.
The women's eight provided the US with one of their two gold medals at last year's World Championships in Bled, Slovenia, and will be one of the strongest US medal hopes.
The other gold-medal boat from Bled, the women's four, has been dispersed to strengthen two other crews which will be expected to challenge for honours on the Eton Dorney course.
These are the women's pair, which features Sarah Zelenka and Sara Hendershot, and the women's quadruple sculls, where Natalie Dell, Adrienne Martinelli and Kalmoe, who were in the World Championship silver medal-winning crew last year, are now joined by another member of the golden four from Bled, Kara Kohler.
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Last month's Boston Marathon bombings showed just how vulnerable some events can be to terrorist attacks but Helmut Spahn, executive director of the International Centre for Sport Security, claims that sharing information and early planning can help reduce the risk of such incidents in the future
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