[DOC] [TLE] Willie Davenport - Military Leader, Track and Field Athlete ... [PAR] Feb 5, 2016 ... American track star Willie Davenport won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer 
Olympics and competed at the 1980 Winter Games with the U.S. bobsled team. ... 
There was a myth that blacks couldn't make the Winter Olympics. ... Not long 
after, Davenport and fellow track and field athlete Jeff Gadley were... [DOC] [TLE] Willie Davenport - Wikipedia [PAR] William "Willie" D. Davenport (June 8, 1943  June 17, 2002) was an American 
sprint runner. ... In 1980 he took part in the Winter Olympics as a runner for the 
American ... in the Winter Olympics, he was the only U.S. track and field athlete to 
participate in the ... Davenport was a U.S. Army private at the time of his first 
Olympic... [DOC] [TLE] espnW -- Celebrating Black History Month by saluting pioneers at ... [PAR] Black History Month: Celebrating Winter Olympians. ... Babilonia and Gardner 
were the favorites -- not to mention America's Sweethearts -- heading into ... 1980 
Bobsled Team ... Willie Davenport, second from left, and Jeff Gadley, third from 
left, became the first African-American men on a U.S. Winter Olympics roster in 
1980. [DOC] [TLE] United States Olympic Book 1980 (Part 1) [PAR] Games, the XIII Olympic Winter Games, and the 461 athletes who earned places 
on the 1980 Olympic Summer Team. ..... Jeff Davis' 91-meter leap during the 70m 
special jumping event. This was ... than half of them were from the ...... 
Bobsledders, Jeff Jordan of Canada and Jeff Gadley and Willie Davenport of the 
USA. [DOC] [TLE] How Bobsledding Became a Black Winter Sport - The Root [PAR] Feb 14, 2014 ... He qualified for four consecutive U.S. Olympic track teams as a hurdler, ... of the 
Winter Games: Davenport and his sled-mate Jeff Gadley, a college ... It was when 
women's bobsledding was first added to the Olympic sports ... Four years ago in 
Vancouver, there were black athletes on the bobsled teams of at... [DOC] [TLE] Inner City Ice: Positive Disruption - How Youth Learn [PAR] Feb 10, 2014 ... In 1980, American bobsledders Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley became the ... 
Olympian to win the same individual event in three successive Winter Games, ... 
U.S. bobsled team; for the first time in Olympic history, black athletes have ... 
Even if access were not an issue, expense is: the cost of equipment,... [DOC] [TLE] Winter Olympics: why Team USA is nearly white as snow | Global ... [PAR] Feb 12, 2010 ... The Winter Olympics were first held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. It wasn't until 
the 1980 Lake Placid Games that Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley became ... 
and the first to win an individual event Winter Olympic gold medal when ... 
There's a wave of African American kids participating in golf, fencing and... [DOC] [TLE] Black Heritage Board Game Section 1 [PAR] Who was the first African American female to win an Olympic Gold Medal? ... 
Before his automobile accident, for what team did Roy Campanella play? ... 
Name the Black athlete who won the Olympic decathlon in 1960. .... In 1980, 
Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley were the first two Blacks to participate in ... 
Winter Olympics. [DOC] [TLE] olympics Archives - Milwaukee Community Journal [PAR] Feb 24, 2014 ... In 1980, American bobsledders Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley became the first 
black men to compete in a Winter Olympic game. ... Team pilot Elana Meyers and 
brakeman Lauryn Williams took the Olympic silver at the Sochi winter games. ... 
And they were like, 'Why doesn't Gabby do it, she's our slave? [DOC] [TLE] St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri  Page 47 [PAR] Feb 13, 1980 ... LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Wd' February 13, 1980 gE Taiwan Team Asks To ... 
N.Y. (AP) The Taiwan Olympic team, defeated twice in court appeals of its ... (Si 1 
: " Willie Davenport, a member of the U.S. four-man bobsled team, ... "

Question: In 1980 Willie Davenport & Jeff Gadley, the USA's first black Winter Olympic athletes, were half of a team in this event
Answer: Bobsledding