Mariel Zagunis

Source: THE WATCHER Oprah Winfrey's's PR folks have released the full list of Olympians who will gather in Millennium Park on Wednesday for a special edition of her talk show. The  tickets that were available to the public have already been snapped up (as this Tribune story notes). There will also be some lawn seats available for the 10 a.m. (read more)

Source: THE OREGONIAN By Wade Nkrumah Mariel Zagunis landed at Portland International Airport this afternoon as a newly minted two-time Olympic gold medalist and with a hunger for "American food." In a brief interview with waiting members of the media in a passenger arrival area, the 23-year-old Beaverton fencer said one of her first tasks would be to eat a big deli-type (read more)

The first gold medal for the United States proved to be especially golden for U.S. Olympic Team sponsor Nike. Fencing gold medalist Mariel Zagunis worked with the apparel company to design the shoes that she wore to defeat fellow American Sada Jacobson. Nike took full advantage of it, inviting media to the company’s hospitality center in Beijing for interview availability with (read more)

by Craig Bohnert - U.S. Olympic Committee (News Bureau - (86-10) 66626044) The medal podium at Beijing's Fencing Hall belonged to the United States as its three entrants swept the medals in women's individual sabre competition at the 2008 Olympic Games Saturday evening. Mariel Zagunis (Beaverton, Ore.) successfully defended the gold medal she won at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games by defeating (read more)

Source: NBC By Alan Abrahamson BEIJING -- This is, in a way that resonates time and again, what the Olympics is about. Three American fencers went 1-2-3 Saturday in women's sabre. What?! Mariel Zagunis won gold, Sada Jacobson silver, Becca Ward bronze, an affirmation of just how good the women's sabre program had become in the United States. Who knew? Well, ok, I did. But in (read more)