The Most Successful Women In Sports

Gold on Gold

Solo has won two Olympic gold medals. She’s even won tons of other medals at different World Cups. If you want to know more, she has a memoir titled Solo: A Memoir of Hope.

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The More You Know

  • The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
  • Singapore plans to build floating burbs.
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
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