Fast - forward a week or so, and she'd
won a gold medal, after beating the world Nos. 2 and 3 and making it three rounds further than presumptive victor Serena Williams.
This might seem like a curveball, but NBC is always salivating after whoever
wins gold for the U.S. first.
In 2000, she and Venus
won gold medals in the doubles event at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
She was expected to
win gold in the sport's most important title — the all - around.
Even those ads that didn't
win the gold for effectiveness have also targeted viewer's hearts.
Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that
won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.
Congratulations to staff writer Jeff Beer and editor - at - large Joanna Pachner, who
both won gold awards on June 7 at the Kenneth R. Wilson awards for business press journalism.
Pachner
won gold in the «Best How - to Article or Series of How - to Articles» for a piece on sales strategy published in PROFIT.
Edwards also points out that over 70 % of the athletes that
won a gold medal in track and field events did so while wearing Nike gear, a helpful marketing buzz for a business that generates $ 5 billion in revenue for Nike at wholesale channels today.
Most U.S. Olympians not named Michael Phelps, Serena Williams or Gabby Douglas who
win a gold, silver, or bronze medal this year will receive little more than the U.S. Olympic Committee's respective $ 25,000, $ 15,000, or $ 10,000 for their troubles.
But that's just the start of what
winning gold can earn for an athlete.
Kim was too young to compete at Sochi 2014, so during the wait for the 2018 Olympics, she racked up three X Games gold medals, became the first woman to land back - to - back 1080s, scored a perfect 100 at the X Games, and
won golds at the Youth Olympics — all before she turned 17.
-- Rodney Williams, cofounder and CEO of LISNR, a new communications technology company that sends data over sound waves (such as streaming video) and recently
won the Gold Cannes Lion for Innovation in Mobile.
Biles
won gold in four of five events and routinely smashed her competition by several points.
She became just the second woman since 1960 to
win golds in all three phases of the same Olympic gymnastics competition.
Last summer's world championship saw Bolt win the 100 - meter, 200 - meter, and 4x100 - meter — and he was having the worst season since before
he won gold in Beijing in 2008.
She's the heavy favorite to
win gold at Rio this summer.
Shields burst onto the scene as a teenager at the 2012 London Olympics,
winning gold in dominating fashion.
Sarah Efron and Phil Froats
won Gold in the category of Service: Personal Finance and Business for The Charity 100: Where is your money going?
And as I learned later
it won a gold medal at the 2014 Wizards of Whiskey Awards.
Forty years ago, an American decathlete named Bruce Jenner
won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympic games and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, his hands in the air and a victorious smile on his face.
The tequila has been very successful and
won gold medals from several spirits competitions and was listed as an Oprah favorite.
India has managed just one gold medal since 1980, when shooter Abhinav Bindra became the first individual to
win gold for his country at the 10 meter air rifle event in 2008.
Due to lack of finances, her parents asked her to quit weightlifting, but refusing to leave weightlifting, Chanu made her comeback by
winning gold in 2017 World Weightlifting Championship, in United States.
The shot put star became the first American woman to
win a gold medal in the sport, and also set an American world record.
Karnam Malleswari was the first Indian to
win the gold medal at Common Wealth Games in 1994 and 1995.
He hopes to become the youngest male skater to
win a gold medal since 1948.
Snowboarding is her strong suit, as
she won gold in parallel giant slalom at world championships in 2016, and placed in the top 30 in three events at skiing worlds.
In the buildup to Pyeongchang, she became the first female to ever land back - to - back 1080s and
won a gold at the Youth Olympic Games.
Rafaela Silva of Brazil celebrates after
winning the gold medal in the Women's -57 kg Final - Gold Medal Contest on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Making the finals in Rio, he said, was accomplishment enough, while
winning gold was a gift.
The Rio Olympics have shown the world there's much more to
winning the gold medal.
U.S. sprinters Anthony Ervin and Nathan Adrian put a capstone on the night by
winning gold and bronze, respectively, in the 50m freestyle — a remarkable 16 - year - gap for Ervin between his last gold in the same event in 2004.
Eleven different agencies managed to
win gold at this year's Marketing Awards, but they weren't the night's only honourees.
Bogota's Ministry of Defense and ad agency Lowe
won a Gold Lion at this year's Cannes Festival of Arts and Ideas for this moving campaign, which urged Columbian guerilla fighters to return home to their families.
«It breaks the monotony,» says Kevin Cordes, an American swimmer who
won a gold in the 4 X 100 medley relay and says he had a burger before his first race in Rio.
They become only the second and third Brazilians to earn gymnastics medals, behind Arthur Zanetti who
won gold in rings in 2012.
What explains how, two months later, Britain's Mo Farah could trip and fall in the Olympic 10,000 meters race, then get back to his feet and
win gold?
That makes Biles the first U.S. female gymnast to ever
win a gold in vault.
«You think to yourself, if they have been doing this to
win gold medals and they had this entire laboratory that was basically a front for this spectacular criminal operation, is there any question what else they're capable of?»
Remember your roots and stay grounded, says retired Olympic speed skater Bonnie Blair talking about
winning gold in the age of social media, with CNBC's Carl Quintanilla.
«There is a lot of satisfaction I have in
winning gold on the vault finally,» she said.
Solo lashed out publicly after the U.S.'s 4 - 0 loss and was shunned by her teammates, but ultimately Ryan lost his job and Solo was welcomed back to the U.S. team under coach Pia Sundhage and
won a gold medal in 2008.
If he manages to
win gold in all three races, his nine career gold medals would tie Paavo Nurmi and Lewis for the most by a track and field athlete.
Soon after American decathlete Ashton Eaton
won gold on Thursday night, earning him the title of «world's best athlete» for a second straight Olympics, he considered himself blessed to share the spotlight with Bolt.
Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates
winning the gold medal in the men's 4x100 - meter relay final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.
Joel H. Cohen, Calgary - born producer of The Simpsons (now celebrating 25 years on the air), explains how he and his team spin a steady stream of lame jokes into Emmy - award -
winning gold:
Team USA's Simone Biles and Aly Raisman finished atop the scoreboard,
winning gold and silver in the women's gymnastics all - around final.
The push includes giving out coupons for at least 10,000 Hershey's Gold bars through posts on Facebook and Twitter each time a U.S. athlete
wins gold in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The government is clearly hoping that Canada will
win the gold medal in hockey