USC Athletes Win 17 Medals at Olympics
In fact, if USC athletes had competed as a country, they would have tied for 16th in the overall medal standings.
The majority of USC’s gold medal haul came in swimming, with five victorious Trojans competing for the United States: Lindsay Benko, Rhi Jeffrey and Kaitlin Sandeno (all in the 800-meter freestyle relay), Klete Keller (800-meter freestyle relay) and Lenny Krayzelburg (400-meter medley relay).
Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson helped lead the U.S. to gold in women's basketball, while Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic won the gold in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles.
Sandeno also won a silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley and a bronze in the 400-meter freestyle.
Other silver medalists were Benko (400-meter freestyle relay), Larsen Jensen (1500-meter freestyle) and Erik Vendt (400-meter individual medley) for the U.S. swim team and Allyson Felix (200 meters) for the U.S. track squad.
USC’s other bronze medal winners were Keller (400-meter freestyle) and Gabe Woodward (400-meter freestyle relay) for the U.S. and Blythe Harley of Canada (10-meter synchronized platform diving).
In all, 34 athletes with a USC affiliation competed in Athens.
USC has sent more athletes to the Olympic Games than any other university.
Since 1904, there have been 357 athletes who attended USC before, during or after their Olympic appearance. They have collected 234 medals (112 golds, 64 silvers and 58 bronzes), including at least one gold medal in every Summer Olympics since 1912.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education mentioned USC’s $6 billion fundraising campaign. The story noted that USC had already raised $1 billion in a “quiet phase,” including the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College.
The Guardian (U.K.) highlighted two major gifts to USC in a list of the 10 biggest philanthropic benefactors in America. The list included the $200 million naming gift from USC Trustee and alumnus David Dornsife and wife Dana Dornsife to the USC Dornsife College, and the $110 million gift from USC Trustee and USC Viterbi School alumnus John Mork and wife Julie to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
The New York Times featured the USC U.S.-China Institute documentary “Assignment: China — The Week that Changed the World.” The documentary, part of a series, examines media coverage of the 1972 Nixon trip that reshaped U.S.-China relations after a quarter century of isolation and hostility. “People look back now and take it for granted that the outcome was preordained,” said the institute’s Mike Chinoy, who produced the documentary. Voice of America also featured the story.
Los Angeles Times featured the Oscar Senti-meter, a tool developed by the USC Annenberg School, Los Angeles Times and IBM that analyzes thousands of tweets about the Academy Awards nominees. The story noted that Mexican actor Demian Bechir received an enormous boost on Twitter the day of the nominations, with a total of 6,893 tweets mentioning him, a 47-fold increase from the day before. The story noted the tool uses language-recognition technology developed in collaboration with USC Viterbi School’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab.
The Times of India (India) featured a three-day medical emergency training workshop organized in association with USC. At the workshop, held at GCS Medical College in India, 50 doctors and more than 100 paramedics learned how to improve emergency support systems. William Mallon of the Keck School of USC said that discussion topics included the use of portable ultrasonic devices to scan patients. “The ultrasound applications help physicians make accurate and timely decisions,” he noted. Daily News & Analysis (India) also featured the workshop.
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