Scott Hamilton
The 1984 gold medalist dominated the male figure skating world with his back flips. He has so many U.S and World Championships it makes everyone else look like slackers. How to top that? By appearing on Celebrity Apprentice, of course.
Janet Evans
This aqua babe has won five Olympic medals (including four gold), and 45 U.S. national titles, making her third to U.S. swimmers Tracy Caulkins and Michael Phelps. But that's not all! Evans is training for a comeback, with the goal of competing in the London Summer 2012 Games.
Beezie Madden
Riding since age 3, this U.S. Olympian has been recently racking up the medals. She brought home gold in 2004 and 2008 in team show jumping and an individual bronze in 2008.
Lisa Leslie
This three-time WNBA MVP is a four-time Olympic gold medal winner, sweeping at the Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing Games. Did we mention that the 6'5" center, is the first player to dunk in a WNBA game? Nuff said.
Jamie Salé & David Pelletier
The duo knew they had skated a winning routine in Salt Lake City in 2002. In fact, everyone knew it—except the judges, who bestowed a silver medal on the longtime partners. A French judge later admitted to throwing her support behind the Russian couple who won gold in exchange for a vote for a French ice-dancing team. Once her vote was disqualified, Salé and Pelletier ended up sharing the gold with Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikhharulidze. The debacle ultimately led to figure skating and ice dancing's current judging system, the Code of Points.
Eric Lamaze
This Canadian show jumper piloted his horse, Hickstead, to win a gold medal in the individual show jumping and a silver medal in team show jumping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Natalie Coughlin
At the Beijing Summer Games, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. As if that weren't enough, the sleek swimmer went toe-to-toe with the best of 'em on season nine of Dancing With the Stars and showed off her curves by appearing in the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue wearing only body paint. Yowza!
U.S. 1992 Men's Basketball Team
No, the Dream Team nickname did not originate with O.J.'s lawyers. It's hard to believe, but the 1992 U.S. men's basketball team was not defending a title. The Soviet Union had taken the gold in 1988, so it was up to the who's-who of the NBA to recapture the glory. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, David Robinson, Christian Laettner and Clyde Drexler duly complied—by an average of 44 points per game.
Bart Conner
Conner is an experienced vet when it comes to the summer games. He was part of the 1976 and 1980 USA Olympic men's gymnastics teams as well as the gold-medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Conner also won an individual Olympic gold on the parallel bars in 1984. What can we say—this guy knows how to monkey around!
McLain Ward
A top U.S. rider since his teens, this show jumper has two gold medals in team show jumping from the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.
Misty May Treanor & Kerri Walsh
The original bangin' beach bods! As the most dominant duo in female beach volleyball history, they plowed through the competition en route to gold medals in Athens and Beijing.
Johnny Weir
After taking a training break and tying the knot with BF Victor Voronev, Johnny's ready to skate back into action! The 27-year-old American figure skater is currently training for the 2014 Olympic Games and he's a three-time U.S. National Champion. During his last Olympics run, the sassy skater (and budding fashion designer!) finished 6th at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Laura Kraut
Horsing around much? Well, sorta, if you're Laura Kraut ,who took home the equestrian gold medal for team jumping at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. And don't forget her winning horse Cedric! The twosome will soon trot over to London to compete in this summer's games.
Lenny Krayzelburg
Not only is Lenny Krayzelburg an American Olympic gold medalist, but he was raised right here in Los Angeles and attended college at USC. The backstroke swimmer extraordinaire dominated the 2000 Sydney Olympics and he's won a total of four Olympic gold medals. Oh, and he's also a former world record holder. Impressed?
Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner
Competition partners since childhood, the glamorous figure-skating pair and five-time U.S. champions won hearts at the Winter Games in 1976 (fifth place) and 1980 (withdrawal due to injury) despite not even picking up a medal. Babilonia paired years later with decathlete Bruce Jenner on Fox's Skating With Celebrities.
Elvis Stojko
Elvis Stojko (named after Mr. Presley himself) is a Canadian figure skater and a two-time Olympic silver medalist. He competed for the last time in the Winter Olympics in 1998 in Nagano, despite having suffered a groin injury and coming down with the flu. After a career spanning almost 15 years, Stojko retired from skating in 2006.
Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss
While not spending their time loathing Mark Zuckerberg, the identical hotties rowed with the Harvard crew team and took that competitive fire to Beijing, where they placed sixth in the men's pairs final.
Will Simpson
Based in California, this Olympic show jumper was part of the gold-winning team in the 2008 Beijing games. He is married to fellow professional grand prix rider Nicole Shahinian-Simpson.
Jamaica 1988 Men's Bobsled Team:
Cool runnings, indeed. The first-ever group from the sun-kissed island to compete in the wintry event came to Calgary with no pedigree, no precedent and no chance. They even crashed during the medal race! But, from their brave walk to the finish line as folks cheered, a Disney movie was born.
Evgeni Plushenko
This Russian figure skater has had a lengthy career on the ice—he won the 1997 World Junior Championships at just 14 years old. He's also the 2006 Winter Olympics gold medalist, as well as the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist. And in case Russia's keeping score, we should also note he's a nine-time national champion over on his home turf.
U.S. 1980 Men's Hockey Team
The miracle on ice. No one thought the U.S. men's ice hockey team could break the Soviet Union's stranglehold on international competition. The legendary game at Lake Placid in which the Herb Brooks-coached squad toppled the USSR 4-3 was actually only a semifinal, but it's the one that merited the nickname. The U.S. went on to beat Finland for the gold, but the Soviets (and then the "Unified Team" in 1992) returned to their winning ways for the next three Winter Olympics.