United States Olympic Hall of Fame

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The United States Olympic Hall of Fame is the hall of honor for the best US Olympic athletes. It was founded in 1979 by the United States Olympic Committee . The first members were accepted in 1983. Nobody was admitted between 1992 and 2003, and in 2004 the hall of honor was revived.

Admission is currently carried out in a two-stage process: 15 finalists are proposed by a committee in which the previous members, current active athletes, sport historians and representatives of the United States Olympic Committee are represented. These 15 will be published online and the public can vote. Five athletes, a team, a coach and an athlete with a physical disability must be selected. The athletes must have retired from their careers for at least six years. When the chosen ones are announced, a veteran (career ended at least 24 years ago) and a special contributor (functionary, sponsor, etc.) will also be named. In 2016 there were 94 Olympians, 5 Paralympians, 10 teams (= 133 people), 4 trainers, 10 veterans and 16 contributors in the Hall of Fame. It is planned to build a sports museum for the hall of honor. However, this has so far failed due to cost reasons, so the hall of honor is part of the house of the National Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs .

Recorded top athletes

Admission as a team

Admission as a trainer

Recorded as a contributor

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teamusa.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: teamusa.org , accessed on January 17, 2017
  3. ↑ Change of name after gender reassignment measures 2015, cf. Buzz Bissinger: Introducing Caitlyn Jenner, cf. Caitlyn Jenner In: Vanity Fair , accessed January 17, 2017