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PREFACE

INDIANA UNIVERSITY HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN FOR BASKETBALL, AS it should be. Only UCLA (eleven), Kentucky (eight), and North Carolina (six) have won more NCAA championships than the Hoosiers’ five.

But Indiana’s legacy at the Olympic Games is no less impressive. The Hoosiers have collected fifty-five gold medals for the United States since the modern Olympics debuted in 1896, a figure exceeded by just seven schools: Stanford, UCLA, the University of Southern California, Texas, Michigan, and Florida. Indiana’s ninetyfive total medals rank eleventh.

This book has profiles of forty-nine IU Olympians. In the following pages, you will read that:

· The greatest athlete in IU history was not actually recruited by IU.

· A long jump gold medalist had such humble beginnings that he grew up in a chicken house.

· The Hoosiers produced the first African American gold medalist in the decathlon.