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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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French skiers sweep the board in cross country event at CISM World Winter Games
By Emily Goddard in at the 2013 CISM World Winter Games in Annecy
March 28 - France's men and women swept the board in the Nordic skiing individual runs to guarantee an all-French podium at Le Grand Bornand today.
March 28 - France's men and women swept the board in the Nordic skiing individual runs to guarantee an all-French podium at Le Grand Bornand today.CAS ruling opens the Sochi 2014 door for banned Russians
By David Gold in Sochi
October 9 - Russian biathletes Dmitry Yaroshenko (pictured) and Ekaterina Iourieva hope to be able to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) ruling that means LaShawn Merritt could compete at London 2012 despite having initially been barred from doing so by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
October 9 - Russian biathletes Dmitry Yaroshenko (pictured) and Ekaterina Iourieva hope to be able to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) ruling that means LaShawn Merritt could compete at London 2012 despite having initially been barred from doing so by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The Ohuruogus and the Relphs are the latest representatives of generations of sporting siblings who have flourished together within international sport, Mike Rowbottom reports
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