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The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) is the latest party to honour Ash Barty - the women’s world number one tennis player who announced her shock retirement from the game last week aged 25.

Despite the fact that only 2 out of 713 people picked him to win the event in Pick'ems, Burns won the 200 fly with a new best time of time of 1:38.71.

A list of athletes who retired on their terms, at their peak, much like Ashleigh Barty did on Wednesday.

Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games. This achievement lasted for 36 years until it was surpassed by fellow American swimmer Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at…

Douglass is the first swimmer, man or woman, to win individual events across three different strokes, not factoring n individual medley races.

Douglass and Walsh both went three-for-three in individual events at NCAAs this year, a feat that has only happened twice before in history between teammates.

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He broke records in the 1972 Munich Olympics, refusing to let the devastating events of those games break his spirit or his Jewish pride.

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