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Michael Jordan Pledges
'Final Five' Win Gymnastics Team Gold In Rio
$5 Million To African American Museum
If there was any ques- tion that the U.S. has the best women's gymnastics team in the world, it was answered today for the fifth time.
Hernandez and Si- mone Biles, looked focused but confident, never faltering under the weight of the world's or their expec- tations.
It was all part of their strategy, Rais- man explained in a pre-Olympic inter- view. "We’re going in
Michael Jordan has made another major dona- tion, pledging $5 million to the Smithsonian's new African American History Museum on the National Mall.
Officials at the National Museum of African Ameri- can History and Culture an- nounced the gift from the basketball great Monday. The museum is set to open Sept. 24.
In recognition of the gift, the museum will name a sec- tion of its sports gallery after Jordan. He also donated a jersey he wore during the 1996 NBA Finals to the mu- seum's collection.
"I am grateful for the op- portunity to support this mu- seum," Jordan said in a statement. "I also am in- debted to the historic contri- butions of community leaders and athletes such as Jesse Owens, whose talent, commitment and persever- ance broke racial barriers and laid the groundwork for the successful careers of so
With two consecutive Olympic golds and world championship titles in 2011, 2014 and 2015, the U.S. women have made a seemingly unbreakable habit of winning. And not just edging out their competitors by a few tenths, but leading the competition from start to finish and claiming victory by multiple points.
SIMONE BILES, GABBY DOUGLAS, LAURIE HERNANDEZ, MADISON KOCIAN AND ALY RAISMAN
MICHAEL JORDAN
many African Americans in athletics and beyond."
Museum Director Lon- nie Bunch said the gift will aid the museum's vision of exploring how Black athletes changed sports and changed American society.
"We are extremely grate- ful to Michael Jordan for his game-changing support," Bunch said in a statement. "His gift will enable our visi- tors to explore how sports were used to break barriers as a way to gain full partici- pation in American society."
Michael Phelps Wins 200 Butterfly, Helps 4 x 200 Free Relay Team To Gold
Michael Phelps sat alone, thoroughly exhausted. He put his head in his hands and then motioned at his neck as though he had nothing left to give.
No need. His work was done. He had his 20th and 21st gold medals.
Phelps, 31, made up for one of the rare losses in his brilliant career by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, a victory that sent him climbing into the stands to kiss his 3-month-old son, Boomer. An hour later, he
MICHAEL PHELPS
returned to take what amounted to a triumphant victory lap in anchoring the 4x200 freestyle relay, with the crowd's deafening roar grow- ing louder with every stroke.
It was another perform- ance for the ages, but Phelps has done it so many times that nothing else would have been fitting. It came on a night when American Katie Ledecky picked up her sec- ond gold of the Rio Olympics on the way to what could be a historic run of her own in the pool.
Phelps has 25 medals in his career, with three more races in Rio to add to his al- most unimaginable total. No other Olympian has more than nine golds.
Throughout the team final at the Rio Olympics, 2012 Olympians Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas, along with first-time Olympians Madison Kocian, Laurie
as the best team in the world," Raisman said. "So we should carry ourselves that way, not be scared and shaky because we have that pressure. It should be the opposite.”
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