He covered 100 different sports in 40 countries. He won 12 Emmy Awards as well as numerous other honors. He covered 12 Olympic games. But, it was Jim McKay’s solid and compassionate broadcasting during the dark days at the 1972 Munich games that would be the most important moment of his career. McKay guided a world of spectactors through the events that ended in the deaths of eleven Israeli athletes. He would call it “the day sports lost its innocence” and his coverage would win him a sports and a news Emmy and the prestigious George Polk Award.
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Shannon Miller will be inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She has won seven Olympic medals in her discipline, Artistic Gymanstics. This made her the most decorated gymnast in U.S. history.
Breaking down the seven medals, three bronze, two silver and two gold. Five of which, the three bronze and two silver, she won during the 1992 Barcelona Games and the other two remaining, which were gold medals, were during the 1996 Atlanta Games.