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Question

He won an Olympic Gold Medal AFTER starring in a major Hollywood movie! The sport was boxing and the movie was a military school adventure.

Answer 1

Mark Breland (welterweight-class boxer; 1 gold; 1984). Breland is unusual in that he appeared in a movie before he won a medal at the Olympics. In 1983, he played the role of the first black cadet at a southern military academy in the film "The Lords of Discipline."