There have always been sports competitions between countries, the United States has gathered amazing efforts, which led to incredibly successful successes and moments.
Regardless of sports or competition, Team Usa has some unforgettable leaders who led the country to seismic victories and huge turmoil. The history of the TEAM USA play is incredibly rich in talent. If you ask someone about the best performance from the United States on the global stage, you will likely get some different answers.
However, Fox SPORTS Research is here to help sort through America’s rich and uninterrupted history.
10 Best USA teams
10. Michael Johnson, 1996 Olympics
Michael Johnson from the United States is presented next to a new world record time of 19.32 seconds in the 200 -meter men’s race during the Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. (Via Getty Images)
Johnson made an Olympic offer ever in 1996, becoming the first male athlete demanding gold in both the 200 meters and 400 meters. It would reduce its hegemony. Johnson, at the time, will set an Olympic record in the 400 -meter race, and won about a full second.
The United States of America, Landon Donovan celebrates victory in the final whistle. (Photography Empics Sport – PA photos via Getty Images)
A few moments can coincide with pure adrenaline and excite the 2010 World Cup goal in Donovan. With the United States needing to win, Donovan came. With the addition of only one minute from stopping to the end of the match, Donovan scored the winner of the game, as the United States of America was sent to the next round with one confirmed kick.
Lauren Holiday of Team Usa and Carli Lloyd from Team Usa celebrate the second goal of Lloyd during the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Vancouver, during the final between the United States of America and Japan. (Photo by Christopher Morris/Corbis via Getty Earth)
One of the most efficient offers in the history of the World Cup belongs to Lloyd. In the largest match of the year, she delivered it, numbered the final with the hat trick – and in just 16 minutes of work. The 16 -minute hat is a record for the fastest in the World Cup, and Ladid is one of the players who scored a trick in the World Cup final ever.
7. Mark Spitz in the 1972 Olympics
Mark Spitz, Steve Ginter and Farid Taylor at the medal ceremony for the Medly 4 x 200 meters for men in the summer Olympiad of 1972 in Munich, West Germany (Photo by John J
There is no possible way to do anything better than Spitz in 1972. After he felt that he had a sub -Olympic performance, Sibitz was crushed in 1972. He competed in seven swimming events in those Olympic games and won all seven, and did so by registering a world record in all Of competitions.
6. Simon Bells, Olympiad 2024
Simon Bells of the United States team is competing in the exercise final in the Women’s Hall on the tenth day of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. (Andre Ricardo/Eurasia Sports Photo
The noise around the Bels returning to the Olympic Games in 2024 was at all levels ever, and delivered. In the end, it finished the competition with four medals, three gold and one silver. Moreover, it gave her a total of 11 medals in her shiny gymnastics, one that leaves her the Most American gymnastics player in all ages.
5. Michael Phelps in the 2008 Olympics
Michael Phelps swims in his chest as he starts in his medal with a global record in 400 individual individuals in the nineteenth Olympics in Beijing. (Photography Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
Driven by its design to improve the performance of Spitz in the Olympic Games, Phelps had won a prize in 2008. He competed in eight different swimming competitions, and gathering gold in each of them, while he occupied the world record in seven. Its eight gold medals are still the record for the athlete in one Olympics.
4. Brande Chastain in the 1999 World Cup final. China
Brandi Chastain is celebrating after recording a penalty kick that won the game against China. (Photo by Robert Beck /SPORTS ILLUSTRENted via Getty Images)
Perhaps the most uncomfortable image in the history of sport, Shaastin came through the 1999 World Cup handles, which was played on the ground of the United States. With the final match along the way to a penalty, Chastain went up and the winner of the game dug to close the home victory of the team and the country.
3. The “Dream Team” in the 1992 Olympics
American basketball players in the 1992 Olympic “Dream Team” receive their gold medals. (Dimitri iundt/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
The 1992 Olympics was the first time The American Professional League Players were allowed to satisfy their country of origin. That year, the United States has placed one of the greatest lists of all ages. The team consisted of 12 players, and 11 of them went to make the Celebrity Basketball Hall. The “Dreams Team” easily won the gold medal, defeating the opponents at a rate of 43.8 points for each game during the tournament.
2, Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics
In the picture above, members of the American relay team, which won the 400 -meter relay race in the Olympic Games in Berlin. They improved the world and the Olympic records at 0: 39.8. From left to right: Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcal, Foy Driber, Frank Wikov. (Via Getty Images)
Simultaneously in history full of turmoil, Owens was a bright star. He appeared to the United States and made four field gold medals and a field, where he recorded three Olympic records and one global records over the course of these four events. Owens has become the first field athlete to collect four or more gold medals in one Olympics.
1. “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 Olympics
The coach Herb coach of the United States and his players are looking for the event on the ice during a medal match against the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics.
This one does not need an introduction. The Soviet Union was considered the International Ice hockey power and considered that it was unbearable, while the United States was a group of novice players – a team that no one believed that it could deal with the list of the complete Soviet Union professionals. The Team Usa 3-2 team fell to the last 20 minutes before formulating two goals in the final framework for the 4-2 victory, and tells the famous TV call now, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
Honor:
- Kerri Strg in the 1996 Olympics
- “The Recovery Team” in the 2008 Olympics
- Katie Ledky at the 2024 Olympics
- Stephen Carey In the 2024 Olympics against France
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