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@YR_JenniferNYC What I just told my husband 🤣

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@ROAccount1 @lady_valor_07 😳

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@jglover1199 @lady_valor_07 You must live in China.

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@TerriblePic @Number10cat Dressed like this?!? 🙇‍♀️

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@TheHost_ There’s an Airbnb across the street. My husband maintains the yard. Sometimes he mows when renters are there 😱 He checks on them and apologizes. THEY ALL LOVE HIM. Just a 72yo Christian Southern man. People choose their feelings. Choose happiness!

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@aashanteee The actress has a medical condition and has to have blood transfusions frequently. According to a video she posted, trying to get her blood count up for surgery. Details not revealed.

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@tomek525 A little dramatic isn’t he?

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@paulsperry_ OF COURSE HE THREATENED 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Color me SHOCKED.

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@WHGrampa0 A !

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@soapcentral Finn 💯

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@BamaSaltyMarine This is so true 🙌

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@MAGAShagster This “hate” started after JD was on the view and wrapped them around his finger. Im pretty sure Joyless fell in love at first sight 🤣 Then he had the audacity to say that we support Israel. Those who are against Israel really should read the entire Bible.

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@Nikki6405994059 @Kristinartz Over 2 hours!

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@Kristinartz Stay

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@PinkMist43525 @DerrickEvans4WV The WH? This White House is trying hard to get rid of the illegals. Try the two Dem Presidents before Trump. And look at your governor and the mayor of New York.

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@DerrickEvans4WV Agreed. But guess where the ones in the US come from? You got it on the first try 🙌 THE MIDDLE EAST.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

At the 1972 Munich Olympics, a 15-year-old American swimmer won three gold medals and set two world records.

Almost nobody remembers her name.

The cameras were pointed somewhere else.

The story of Munich is usually told in two parts.

First, there was the dominance of Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals and became the face of the Games.

Then there was the tragedy of the Munich Massacre, when eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were murdered by terrorists from Black September.

Those two stories became the history of Munich.

Everything else disappeared into the background.

Including a teenage girl from Virginia named Melissa Belote.

She arrived in Germany as a high school sophomore.

No media entourage.

No endorsement deals.

No celebrity status.

Just a swimmer who had spent years staring at the black line at the bottom of a pool before sunrise.

In the 100-meter backstroke, she won gold and set an Olympic record.

In the 200-meter backstroke, she won gold and broke the world record.

In the 4×100-meter medley relay, she helped the United States win gold and set another world record.

Three events.

Three gold medals.

Two world records.

She was fifteen years old.

While reporters chased Spitz through the Olympic Village, Belote quietly climbed out of the same pool carrying world records.

Few cameras followed.

Few headlines appeared.

Then the Munich attack happened.

The Games stopped.

The world changed.

When competition resumed, celebration was gone. Athletes finished their events beneath a cloud of grief and shock.

Belote received her final gold medal in an arena struggling to find joy.

Then she packed her bags and went home.

No nationwide media tour.

No magazine covers.

No Hollywood offers.

She returned to Springfield, Virginia.

The next thing she had to worry about wasn't another Olympic final.

It was high school.

She walked back into class as a sophomore.

According to the stories told later, school didn't even excuse her from regular physical education requirements.

Just weeks after becoming a three-time Olympic champion, she was still expected to run laps like everyone else.

Today, her achievements remain in the record books:

🥇 100m Backstroke
🥇 200m Backstroke (World Record)
🥇 4×100m Medley Relay (World Record)

Three Olympic gold medals.

Won before she was old enough to drive.

The medals weigh exactly the same as everyone else's.

History just forgot to look at them.

Melissa Belote didn't merely compete in Munich.

She outswam the world while almost nobody was watching.