1. Dwight Edwin Stones was born on December 6,1953 and is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump.
14 Facts About Dwight Stones
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In 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and serve as an announcer at the same Olympics.
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Dwight Stones served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Track and Field at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Dwight Stones is a member of the US Track Hall of Fame, the California Sports Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the Orange County Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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Dwight Stones attended UCLA his freshman year, and later transferred to Long Beach State for a year and a half, and is a member of that university's hall of fame.
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In 1994, Dwight Stones hosted the second season of the ESPN game show Dream League.
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In 1998, Dwight Stones was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame.
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Dwight Stones was a 1991 inductee into the Orange County Hall of Fame.
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Dwight Stones is Jewish, and he once competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel.
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At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Dwight Stones took the bronze medal at age eighteen, behind Juri Tarmak and Stefan Junge.
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Consequently, Dwight Stones was subject to raucous booing and hissing during the competition.
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The Americans in the audience responded to the treatment of Dwight Stones by booing Claude Ferragne, a French-Canadian jumper, during the event.
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Dwight Stones cleared 2.31 m, but lost the bronze medal to Zhu Jianhua on the countback.
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Dwight Stones first made money in the televised sports creation Superstars which was "donated" to the track club.