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Events with high posterior probability

Amy Winters	She made her Paralympics debut as an 18-year old at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she won a gold medal in the Women's 200 m T42-46 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, After the Atlanta Games, She moved to Sydney after she was offered a job with Westpac under the Paralympic Employment Program for elite athletes with disabilities.
Jimmy Mills	In 1956, Mills coached the U. S. Olympic soccer team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Mike Sullivan (ice hockey, born 1968)	He has also served as an assistant coach of the U. S. Olympic hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
Brian Beaman	Beaman eventually became a member of the rifle shooting team for the NCAA Division I, until he was approached by U. S. national pistol coach Erich Buljung, silver medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, to switch from rifle to pistol.
John Martin (Paralympian)	At the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, he participated in athletics, table tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair fencing, winning two silver medals in the Men's Slalom B and Men's 4x40 m Relay open events.
Rick Hansen	He was profiled and spoke during the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
Kenny Anderson (boxer)	He also stated his desire to remain an amateur and fight for Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Vernon Davis	Davis was named honorary captain of the Men's U. S. Olympic Curling team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Hamadou Djibo Issaka	A competitive swimmer, Djibo Issaka trained as a Men's single sculls rower for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London to take a development spot offered to the Nigerien federation by the International Olympic Committee.
Kyrra Grunnsund	He switched sports in 1992, and then became the first Australian to compete in both the summer and winter Paralympics when he competed in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m races.
Agus Ngaimin	In June 2012 he began training to represent Indonesia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, together with two other athletics competitors, a powerlifter, a swimmer, and a table tennis player ; Ngaimin had been selected after his performance in Guangzhou.
Richard Fox (canoeist)	Fox's daughter Jessica won gold in the girls' K-1 slalom event at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
Ernest C. Quigley	He also refereed the basketball finals between the United States and Canada at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, played outdoors in the rain, in the first Games at which basketball was a medal sport.
Bart Conner	Conner was the first qualifier for the 1980 Olympic gymnastics team, and did not support the US boycott of the Games.
Emily Little	Little will represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in women's artistic gymnastics as an eighteen-year-old.
Mark Rylance	His younger stepdaughter, filmmaker Nataasha Van Kampen, died in July 2012 at the age of twenty-eight, as a result of which Rylance withdrew from his planned participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
Phil Edwards (athlete)	Edwards was among the first black athletes to earn an Olympic medal and, along with Hamilton runner Ray Lewis, one of only a handful of black athletes to represent Canada in the 1920s and 1930s ; as a gold medal-winner for British Guiana in the 1934 British Empire Games, Edwards was also the first black man to be awarded in what are now the Commonwealth Games.
Achieng Ajulu-Bushell	In early 2010, Ajulu-Bushell made the decision to start swimming for Great Britain, and after a customary period without representing Kenya (1 year) and with clearance from the Kenya federation, began swimming from Great Britain.
Greg Louganis	He was a mentor to the US diving team at the London 2012 Olympics.
Glenn Sundby	Sundby's active role in the magazines, was exemplified by his taking a picture of all 305 participants at the 1985 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Montreal, Canada.
Pandelela Rinong	She became Malaysia's first female flag bearer at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics where she competed in the individual 10 m platform and the 10 m platform synchronized event with her partner Leong Mun Yee.
Alton Lister	However, he was unable to participate due to the United States Olympic Committee's decision to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games on the orders of President Jimmy Carter.
Zhuang Zedong	In 1985, Zhuang was allowed to return to Beijing again, and it was arranged that he would coach the young table tennis players at the Palace of Youth in Beijing.
G. C. Foster	Foster was also heavily involved in the Jamaican team at the 1948 Summer Olympics, the country's first Olympic team.
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki	Additionally, she is going to contribute to the preparation of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, as honorary member of the Organizing Committee.
Willie Wood (bowler)	Wood competed in nine World Championships in total and has an impressive collection of fifteen World Championship medals in singles, pairs, triples and foursomes, most recently bronze medals in the triples and fours at the 2000 event in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Clement Jackson	Morton's son Arnold Jackson won the gold medal in the 1500m at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, coached by his uncle, Clement Jackson.
Miro Sipek	During the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, he was attempting to get a permit which would have allowed a snowman to have a permit to carry a rifle to the biathlete event.
Chris Daly	On 20 March 2008 Daly introduced a resolution which criticized the human rights record of China and urged officials representing San Francisco during the upcoming Olympic torch ceremonies (scheduled for 9 April 2008) to'' make publicly known that the 2008 Summer Games torch is received with alarm and protest.''
Damien Hirst	Hirst's representation of the British Union Flag formed the arena centrepiece for the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London.
Susan Smith-Walsh	At the Irish National Championships in 2000 Susan announced that she would be retiring from the sport after the Sydney Olympics.
Simon Clegg	In 1997 on his appointment as the British Olympic Association's Chief Executive he, together with his Chairman (Craig Reedie) and Project Manager (David Luckes) set about exploring whether London could host an Olympic Games.
Betty Okino	In spite of this, she was added to the U. S. team for the 1992 Olympics based on her performance at a second, private trial for U. S. Gymnastics Federation officials and coaches.
Stephan Moccio	In addition to co-writing the theme song, Moccio composed and produced over 250 cues to accompany the Canadian broadcasts of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, with each cue representing different emotions associated with lead-ins to segments and events, Medal Ceremonies, and with Canadian athletes' profiles and performances at Olympic events, telecast on various CTV and Rogers Media properties throughout the games.
Betty Cuthbert	Cuthbert was one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Carol Cooke	A keen swimmer, she was part of the Canadian national swimming team and was hoping to make it to the 1980 Moscow Olympics before her country boycotted the games.
Majora Carter	Carter was a torch-bearer for a portion of the San Francisco leg of the torch relay of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Jin Jing	She was a torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch amid political protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Paris, France.
Richard Nizielski	Nizielski was Australia's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
Ed Korfanty	During his tenure at Notre Dame, he coached Canadian fencer Leszek Nowosielski (who was attending Notre Dame) to represent Canada at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.
Terence Spinks	After his boxing career ended Spinks became a trainer, coaching the South Korean team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
James Brayshaw	For the duration of the 2010 Winter Olympics games in Vancouver, Brayshaw took on a commentary role for various skiing events alongside Michael Kennedy, former international moguls skier, dual Winter Olympics coach and current CEO of Ski and Snowboard Australia, in calling the moguls competition.
Sydney Gooday	Decades after the Stockholm games during newspaper coverage of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Ottawa journalists stated that Gooday had been the first Ottawa resident to win an Olympic event.
Mike Krzyzewski	On August 24, 2008, Krzyzewski's U. S. team won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.''
Stanislav Loska	The 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver were his fifth Paralympic Games.
Micki King	At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, King was the team leader for the US diving team.
Ian Stark	In 2000 Stark won a silver team medal for eventing in the Olympic Games held in Sydney, Australia.
Setyo Budi Hartanto	Hartanto was one of four Indonesian athletes at the 2012 Paralympic games, along with Ni Nengah Widiasih (powerlifting), David Jacobs (table tennis), and Agus Ngaimin (swimming).
John Tarrant (athlete)	Accordingly he gave up boxing the following year and turned his sights to training for the marathon, hoping to compete at the Rome Olympics in 1960.
Matt Welsh	| | | | | -RCB- At 31 and after 11 years on the Australian Swim Team, Welsh was unable to beat the younger generation at the trials and was not selected to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Malcolm Champion	Champion was New Zealand's only Olympic gold medallist in swimming until 1996, when Danyon Loader won in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle events at the Atlanta Olympics.
David R. Francis	Francis Field was the site of the 1904 Summer Olympics in which Francis attended the opening ceremony and officially opened the games as the representative for the host nation.
Herb Brooks	His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U. S. Olympic hockey team at Lake Placid.
Wayne Gretzky	Gretzky also served as an ambassador and contributor in Vancouver winning the bidding process to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Kate Allenby	When London became the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kate was chosen to be the Director of Fence for the Modern Pentathlon event at the Games.
Sofia Sakorafa	Sakorafa stirred controversy in 2004 when she became a Palestinian citizen and applied at the last minute for a berth on the Palestinian Olympic team at the age of 47.
Ken Read	He served as Chef de Mission for the 1992 Canadian Team to Barcelona, where the Canadian Team won 18 medals including a record 7 gold medals.
Li Hongping	Li's then-club diver and current Trojan, Haley Ishimatsu (the younger sister of Victoria), won a 2011 U. S. national title on 10-meter.
Frank Turner (gymnast)	As National Coach to the British gymnastics team he also attended the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Ute Geweniger	Geweniger was tipped for further Olympic success, but her career was ended when the Soviet bloc, including East Germany, staged a retaliatory boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
Pierre Quinon	At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, in the absence of Sergey Bubka because of the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, Quinon, Vigneron and two Americans - Earl Bell and Mike Tully - were the favorites to win the pole vault title.
Mary Frizzell	She continued to support track and field by coaching, serving on the Amateur Women's Athletic Federation and acting as the Women's commandant for the 1954 British Empire Games (Commonwealth Games).
Elizabeth Edmondson	She was the youngest competitor at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo among athletes from all nations.
Pierre Quinon	In the same interview, Quinon considered his Olympic title as a'' collective reward'' and opined that the pole vault training programmes started and carried out by Maurice Houvion (who was the coach of Jean Galfione, the 1996 Olympic pole vault champion, for Galfione's entire pole vaulting career) and Jean-Claude Perrin had borned fruit.''
F. D. Amr Bey	During his ambassadorship, Amr did not forget his sporting roots : along with the rest of the expatriate Egyptian community in the United Kingdom, he received with great enthusiasm Egypt's Olympic delegation to the 1948 London Olympics, which won five medals and was one of the most successful in Egypt's Olympic history.
Carl Hansen (footballer)	In 1952, Hansen was asked to train the Danish national football team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, but he was not allowed to travel with the team for the tournament.
Peter O'Connor (athlete)	thumb | 180px | right | The flag waved by Peter O'Connor at the 1906 Summer Olympics | 1906 Olympics In 1906 O'Connor and two other athletes, Con Leahy and John Daly, were entered for the Intercalated Games in Athens by the IAAA and GAA, representing Ireland.
Mark Tewksbury	Tewksbury was also highly critical of Swimming Canada's organization in the wake of the national team's poor performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics, where they failed to medal.
Kaisa Varis	Though she qualified, she did not compete in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, because she was excluded by Finland's Olympic committee.
Mark Tonelli	He said that his career was'' never the same again'' after his expulsion by a'' kangaroo court'', Malcolm Fraser (pictured) pressured the Australian athletes to boycott the Olympics.
Nicol David	David was given the honour of carrying the Olympic torch for Malaysia during the build up to the Athens Olympics of 2004, and was appointed UNDP National Goodwill Ambassador for Malaysia.
Charles E. Young	He was also a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
George V. Brown	For the first 1924 Winter Olympics, Brown organized the U. S. Olympic Hockey team, with seven of the ten members coming from the BAA team.
Oscar Pistorius	On 4 July 2012, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) announced that Pistorius had been included in the Olympic team for the 400 metres and the 4 × 400 metres relay races.
Steve Waugh	Waugh worked as an athletics liaison officer for Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
John Knowles Herr	In the early 1920s he served in Coblenz, Germany ; in 1923 he was a member of the'' legendary'' American polo team that defeated the British team.
Wilma Rudolph	Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later became Muhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.
Heike Kemmer	Kemmer attended her first Olympics in 2000, as an alternate to the German team, but did not participate in the Games.
Antanas Sireika	At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Sireika coached the Lithuanian team to 4th place with a memorable win against the United States.
Rodrigo Pessoa	In the 2004 Olympics in Athens he won the individual silver medal but after disqualification of the Irish rider Cian O'Connor and his horse Waterford Crystal for doping, he was awarded the Gold medal in an award ceremony in his home town of Rio de Janeiro.
Peter Eriksson (coach)	After this period Eriksson worked as High Performance Advisor for Own the Podium (funding agency for elite sport in Canada) until January 2008 when he began work as head coach for track and field for the Paralympic programme at UK Athletics.
Bradley Mark	He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in shooting.
G?rard Blitz (swimmer)	At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, the Blitz brothers were still part of the Belgian water polo squad.
Kishan Lal	Kishan Lal was India's captain of the hockey team to the 1948 Olympics at London.
Stan Cox	Cox, who lived in Felixstowe for nearly 30 years, was seeking to take an active part in the 2012 Summer Olympics and a campaign began to make him a participant in the games' ceremonies.
Kelly Wood	Wood was shortlisted along with nine other female curlers to be considered for a place on the women's Olympic team and became successful to travel to Turin to defend Rhona Martin's Olympic gold that Team GB won in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Tex Robertson	The International Swimming Hall of Fame credits Tex with the invention of the flip-turn, a pivotal technique used by all modern swimmers, while he was training Adolph Kiefer for the 1936 Summer Olympics in which Kiefer went on to win a gold medal for the back stroke.
Nicolas Bochatay	Bochatay was the third athlete to die at a Winter Olympics, after British luger Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski and Australian skier Ross Milne who both died at Innsbruck 1964.
John Carlos	Following his retirement from football, Carlos worked for Puma, the United States Olympic Committee, the Organising Committee of the 1984 Summer Olympics and the City of Los Angeles.
Sally-Anne Stapleford	Stapleford was the whistleblower of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games figure skating scandal, the person to whom Marie-Reine Le Gougne ('' the French judge'') confessed following the event to having been involved in a political deal in the pairs competition.
Siah Armajani	Siah Armajani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Herman Stegeman	Stegeman coached UGA's track and field team for 17 years and was the personal coach of Forrest'' Spec'' Towns, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Robert Fagan (snowboarder)	For more than 25 years now, he is on the ride of his life hoping to achieve his main goal of bringing home an Olympic medal in 2010.
Amos Alonzo Stagg	In 1924, he served as a coach with the U. S. Olympic Track and Field team in Paris.
Sheila Taormina	She was the first UGA swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal and the first UGA athlete to make the Olympic team in multiple sports Taormina competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Geoff Bodine	His bobsled interest while watching the 1992 Winter Olympics when the U. S. Bobsled team was having a tough time during competition.
Jonathan Edwards (athlete)	He was a member of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, representing athletes in the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Dawn Fraser	She was one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
John Patrick Acquaviva	He was selected to be an olympic torch bearer for the London 2012 Olympics, he ran with the olympic flame on June 1 through Euxton, becoming the first football freestyler to ever be involved in the Olympics.
Xu Haifeng	Xu was the first torchbearer to bring the Olympic Torch into the Beijing National Stadium near the end of the 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Xu is married to Zhao Lei, the daughter of his coach in the Chinese National Shooting Team.