Now all we need is Mary from Kentucky's answer about her might-be-a-cousin.
I won't pose these as questions, but I'd like to add a couple of Olympic-statistics anecdotes:
One of my favorite American track-and-field (athletics) heroes while growing up was Al Oerter, a perennial gold medalist in the discus for three or four consecutive Olympics in the 50s and 60s. What I did not learn until much later was that Oerter was *not* a regular winner elsewhere, only at the Olympics. He never won the US Olympic Trials, always qualifying for the team as the 2d or 3d American, and he never won a World Championship during any non-Olympic year. But he somehow managed to come out on top when the Olympics came around.
The one notable Olympian from my hometown of Plainfield, NJ, was decathlete Milt Campbell. He qualified for the Helsinki games as a high school kid (a football star and state champion hurdler) and won the bronze there in 1952. (The gold went to his American teammate, whose name currently escapes me.) I was only 5 years old at the time and not really aware of this.
Four years later, at Melbourne, Milt won the decathlon gold; I was becoming interested in sports by then and followed his accomplishments closely. Sadly, despite earning recognition as "the world's greatest athlete," Milt was not able to capitalize on his championship in any way comparable to what became available to later decathlon winners, once TV coverage and sports promotion in general grew in influence. Medaling more than once in the Olympic decathlon is fairly rare; the event is so demanding that few athletes can maintain the requisite conditioning for as long as four years.
One other world-class athlete with whom I had a connection of sorts was middle- and long-distance runner Marty Liquori, America's best miler for years before becoming the country's outstanding 5k runner. Marty was the first and (I think) still the only runner to break the four-minute mark in the mile while still in high school, at Essex Catholic HS in New Jersey. I participated in at least twenty high school cross-country and mile races that he won -- I was far back in the pack, myself, but one of my teammates consistently ran second to Marty and never lost to anyone else. Pretty frustrating.
Marty Liquori, who is a fairly prominent sportscaster today, never won an Olympic medal and may never have participated in the Games at all, despite winning multiple world championships in at least two different events. He had terrible luck, and found himself injured every time the Olympiad came along.