re: #247 Amory Blaine

Have any other Olympic athletes been bestowed with an animal nickname at the olympics?

Doing a quick search:

Alex Morgan, the soccer player, is ‘Baby Horse’. Kobe is ‘Black Mamba’, of course, but he’s had that long before the Olympics. Misty May Treanor is ‘the Turtle’. Yohan Blake is ‘the Beast’. Allyson Felix is ‘Chicken Legs’. Laurel Flessel-Colovic, the French fencer, is ‘the Wasp’. Merrill Moses is ‘the Birdman’. Kyla Ross, another U.S. gymnast, is “Mighty Mouse”.

And Kayla Harrison, the U.S. judoka, or whatever the feminine of that is, is “Doug”. No idea why.

That’s just pulled off a Yahoo thing on “Olympian Nicknames”, so there are probably dozens more I don’t know about. Not my area of expertise.