Photo Credits
Front cover: IOP/AFP/Getty Images (Károlyi, Strug); Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated (hockey); Tom Jenkins/Getty Images (Bolt)
Page 1: Jamie Squire/Getty Images (Freeman)
Pages 2–3: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images (Bolt)
Pages 4–5: Bettmann/Getty Images (Beamon)
Pages 6–7: Co Rentmeester/The LIFE Picture Collection (Spitz)
Pages 8–9: AP (Miracle on Ice)
Pages 10–11: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images (Douglas)
Page 12: Ed Lacey/Popperfoto/Getty Images (Fosbury)
Page 14: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images (discus); Popperfoto/Getty Images (high jump); Topical Press Agency/Stringer/Getty Images (running)
Page 15: Branger/Roger Viollet/Getty Images (Thorpe)
Page 16: Interim Archives/Getty Images (Thorpe)
Page 17: ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images (Jenner)
Page 18: Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection (Blankers-Koen)
Page 19: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images (Blankers-Koen)
Page 20: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images (Blankers-Koen and family); Robert Laberge/Getty Images (Walsh)
Page 21: AFP/Getty Images (Fosbury)
Page 22: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection (Fosbury); Indiana Athletics (Volz)
Page 23: STAFF/AFP/Getty Images (Comaneci)
Page 24: AFP/Stringer/Getty Images (Comaneci)
Page 25: Steve Powell/Getty Images (Retton)
Page 26: Boston Globe/Getty Images (Moseley)
Page 27: Nathan Bilow/Allsport/Getty Images (Moseley)
Page 28: Al Bello/Getty Images (Moseley)
Page 29: Mike Powell/Getty Images (White)
Page 31: Nick Wilson/ALLSPORT/Getty Images (Freeman)
Page 32: Popperfoto/Getty Images (Owens)
Page 34: The LIFE Picture Collection (Owens)
Page 35: Getty Images (Owens)
Page 36: Blank Archives/Getty Images (FDR campaign button); FPG/Getty Images (U.S. soldiers); Underwood Archives/Getty Images (Churchill); Photo File/MLB Photos/Getty Images (Robinson)
Page 37: Austrian Archives/Imagno/Getty Images (Owens)
Page 38: Agence France Presse/Getty Images (Evans, Freeman, Jones)
Page 39: John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images (Black Power salute)
Page 40: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images (Presley); Underwood Archives/Getty Images (Parks); Getty Images (U.S. soldiers); New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images (Stonewall Inn)
Page 41: Agence France Presse/Getty Images (Smith)
Page 43: Keystone/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images (Carter)
Pages 44-45: Tony Duffy/Getty Images (1980 Summer Olympic Games)
Page 46: Focus On Sport/Getty Images (U.S. Olympic hockey players)
Page 48: Focus On Sport/Getty Images (U.S. hockey celebration)
Page 49: John Kelly/Getty Images (Craig)
Page 50: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images (Nixon); Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images (Apple II computer); Gamma/Getty Images (Iranian students); Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images (Berlin Wall)
Page 51: Robert Riger/Getty Images (podium)
Page 52: Allsport UK/Getty Images (Edwards)
Page 53: AFP/Getty Images (Edwards)
Page 54: Alex Livesey/Getty Images (bobsled)
Page 55: Will McIntyre/The LIFE Images Collection (Jamaican bobsled team)
Page 56: Mike Powell/Getty Images; Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images; Al Tielemans/Sports Illustrated
Page 57: Mike Powell/Getty Images (Strug)
Page 58: Central Press/Stringer/Getty Images (Ali)
Page 59: Michael Cooper/Getty Images (Ali)
Page 60: Anatoly Sapronenko/Getty Images (Soviet Army tanks); Douglas Burrows/Liaison/Getty Images (King); Bob Daemmrich/AFP/Getty Images (Albert P. Murrah Federal Building); Focus On Sport/Getty Images (Ripken)
Page 61: FPG/Getty Images (Ali)
Page 62: Keystone-France/Getty Images (memorial)
Page 65: Bettmann/Getty Images (2)
Page 67: Clive Brooks/AP (Atlanta bombing)
Page 69: Steve Powell/Getty Images (Johnson)
Page 71: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images (Harding and Kerrigan)
Page 72: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images (Phelps)
Page 74: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images (Rudolph)
Page 75: Keystone-France/Gamma Keystone/Getty Images (Rudolph)
Page 76: Bettmann/Getty Images (3)
Page 77: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images (Rudolph)
Page 78: Bettmann/Getty Images (Heiden)
Page 79: Bettmann/Getty Images (Heiden)
Page 80: Joe McNally/Getty Images (Lewis)
Page 81: Steve Powell/Getty Images (Lewis)
Page 83: Nathanial S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images (Jordan)
Pages 84-85: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images (Dream Team)
Pages 86-87: Omega/Getty Images (Bolt)
Page 88: Bob Thomas/Getty Images (Phelps)
Page 89: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images (Phelps)
Pages 90-91: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images (Phelps)
Page 92: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images (Douglas)
Page 93: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images (Douglas)
Page 94: David Eulitt/Kansas City Star/MCT/Getty Images (Fierce Five)
Page 96: Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images (Rio Games)