Today Atlanta Free Speech highlights Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born 1962). She dominated the Olympic sport of heptathlon, a series of six demanding events. Joyner-Kersee won the Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1988 and1992, and set a world record. She was also the first American woman to win Olympic…
Olympian: Debi Thomas
Born in New York in 1967, Debi Thomas started ice skating at an early age. At the 1986 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she became the first African American to win a non-novice title, winning the World Championships that same year. In 1988, Thomas competed at the Winter Olympic Games in…