Ester Ladecka from the Czech Republic became the first woman to win a gold medal in two different sports in the span of one Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Not even expected to medal in the 2012 London Olympics, gymnast Gabby Douglas became the first American to win gold medals in both the Individual and Team All-Around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He might be legally blind, but South Korea’s Im Dong-Hyun can always find the bullseye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Facing 9-time world champ and 3-time Olympic gold medalist Aleksandr Karelin from Russia, Rulon Gardner of the U.S. came up with the biggest upset in Olympic wrestling history to win the gold medal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tennis champion Richard Norris Williams II won his first Grand Slam in mixed-doubles in the U.S. Open. Months earlier, he survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

High school and college national wrestling championships were just the beginning for Anthony Robles. When his wrestling career was over, he set out to break world records and did so, all with only one leg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice was used to performing under pressure. But nothing would prepare him for what happened during the 4th inning of a game August 7, 1982 at Fenway Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Imagine doing something called the “death whirl” on an 18-inch platform 100 feet above the ground. That was just part of the routine that Benny Fox and his partner “Betty” would perform multiple times a day throughout the 1930s and 40s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After losing an arm in a 2003 shark attack, 13 year old Bethany Hamilton had to work even harder to achieve her goal of becoming a professional surfer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Up and coming tennis star Naomi Osaka faced her idol, the legendary Serena Williams, and won a controversial match. To set the record straight, Osaka beat Williams a second time on her way to her 4th Grand Slam title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It took 13 years, but Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to summit the world’s highest mountains without sherpas or supplemental oxygen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Goals are important. Ada Hegerberg scored a lot of them as Norway’s top women’s soccer player. But when the National Team didn’t get the practice time and pay they deserved, she found a new goal to achieve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plennie Wingo had a retro idea… To make money during the Great Depression, he’d walk around the world backward. And while it cost him his marriage, walking backwards is certainly something he did on three different continents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a nearly impossible-to-reach subterranean cave, a group of young women searched for fossils — and found a brand new species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19-year-old Blake Spataro was stranded in the open ocean for hours with no life vest. He would miraculously survive the experience and refer to it as “the worst vacation ever.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Known as America’s first daredevil, Sam Patch had a penchant for jumping into waterfalls. And there was one particular waterfall he needed to conquer: Niagara Falls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

He was up all night vomiting, but you wouldn't have known it from the way Michael Jordan performed in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After winning the first-ever Women’s PBA Championship, Kelly Kulick got the opportunity to compete against the men. And she didn’t just beat them. She destroyed them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kathrine Switzer set out to be the first woman to legally run the Boston Marathon. No one was gonna make it easy for her — but who could’ve predicted the bodyslams? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thirty-six pull-ups would be a personal record for most people. But Tazio il Biondo isn't like most people. He set a Guinness record with 36 consecutive pull-ups… using just his two pinky fingers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1863, a colonel in the Union Army approached Harriet Tubman with a dangerous mission: rescue hundreds of enslaved people from inside Confederate territory. She accepted, becoming the only woman to lead a Civil War military operation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before he was drafted by the New York Yankees, Hall of Famer Yogi Berra was drafted by the U.S. Navy to fight in World War II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Born into slavery, James Armistead risked his life to help secure an American victory in the Revolutionary War.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The British military needed to crack the German Enigma Code to win World War II. It had nearly 159 quintillion solutions. They called on Alan Turing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices