"George Lee (pilot) Douglas George Lee MBE (born 7 November 1945) is a glider pilot who was world gliding champion on three consecutive occasions. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force as an engineering apprentice at the age of sixteen in 1962, becoming a British subject. He completed his training as an electrical fitter and in 1967 he was selected for officer and pilot training. He joined an operational squadron in 1971 flying Phantoms. He left the RAF in 1983 as a Squadron Leader and joined Cathay Pacific to fly Boeing 747s. During his apprenticeship"
"the Olympic Park stadium in Seoul. On October 26, 2009, at his second reign, he lost his title in a rematch to Bob Sapp at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul. In 2015, he retired after 40 years in the business. He studied different martial art sports, including taekwondo, judo and hapkido. Lee created a legitimate martial art based on his repertoire of wrestling moves, called ""gyeokgido"". He was a member and a ""Grand Master Of Korean Military Arts"" of ""Korean Martial Arts Instructors Association"". On September 4, 2018, Lee died after a five-year battle with gallbladder cancer. He was 64"
"1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as usual made strides in the international styles, but were more well known for their scholastic and collegiate wrestling achievements. These wrestlers include Dan Gable, who won the Olympic gold medal in 1972 and was the Olympic freestyle coach in 1984, but was more famous for his 15 team championships as coach at the University of Iowa. John Smith also won gold medals at the Goodwill Games against a Soviet in Moscow and at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992. He is best known however for his two NCAA championships and his 90 straight victories"
"and tennis. Greg Lee (basketball) Gregory Scott Lee (born December 12, 1951) is a retired American basketball player. He was the starting point guard on back to back NCAA championship teams at UCLA in 1972 and 1973. He then played two seasons of professional basketball: one in the original American Basketball Association (ABA) and one in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lee, a 6'3"" guard, was an All American while playing at Reseda High School in Reseda, California. He played for UCLA from 1971 to 1974. When he arrived freshman were not allowed to compete on the Varsity team. Lee"
"in the 1950s. The later 1960s and 1970s witnessed an increased media interest in Chinese martial arts, influenced by martial artist Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is credited as one of the first instructors to openly teach Chinese martial arts to Westerners. World Judo Championships have been held since 1956, Judo at the Summer Olympics was introduced in 1964. Karate World Championships were introduced in 1970. Following the ""kung fu wave"" in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture. These"
"for 370 yards in one half against the Oakland Raiders. In 1967, Lee was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs after four games. He spent most of his last three years as the back-up to Len Dawson with the Kansas City Chiefs. He was part of the 1969 AFL and World Championship (Super Bowl IV) winning team. He was one of only twenty men who played in each of the ten years of the AFL's existence. Lee retired in 1970 after a shoulder injury. He went on to have a successful career in commercial real estate in Houston. Lee died"
"science and physical education. Lee considers masters Randy Kuk Do Chun of Honolulu and Sang Chul Lee of Colorado Springs as his main teachers. Both Chun and Lee came from the Jidokwan style of taekwondo. Lee is a nine-time US National Champion (1979–1987), a 10-time US National Team Member (1979–1987, 1989), and has won medals at the World Taekwondo Championships, World Games, International Collegiate Taekwondo Championships, Pan American Games, and Pan American Taekwondo Championships. His competition record includes: Lee served as an assistant taekwondo coach for the USA at the 1988 Summer Olympics and as taekwondo coach for the USA"
"champion ever, a distinction he held for 30 years. Lee was a four-time World Cup Champion, 7-time United States Freestyle National Champion and was a heavy favorite for gold earning a berth on the 1980 United States Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team, but was unable to compete because of the U.S. boycott of the Olympics. Kemp was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 1990. Then at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where he was one of the freestyle coaches for the U.S., he became just the fifth American to be inducted into the United World Wrestling,"
"basketball team in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Lee was a star at Marquette, leading that team to the NCAA championship in 1977. In 1978, he turned pro after being selected in the first round of the NBA draft by Atlanta. His NBA career was cut short by injuries, and he retired in 1981. At that point, he returned to the Puerto Rico basketball league where he played for a few more years, but due to the rules at the time, he couldn't play for the Puerto Rico national team because he had lost his amateur status. Another Nuyorican raised in"
"and won the batting title in 1980. In 1978, he invited younger brother Leon Lee (the father of former Major League Baseball player Derrek Lee) to play in Japan, and the brothers formed a feared cleanup for the Orions. Before the arrival of Lee, foreign players mostly played in Japan when their careers were winding down. Lee revolutionized the Japanese view of foreign players by playing in Japan during his prime, raising the standard for all foreign players thereafter. After retiring from Japanese baseball, he went on to become the batting coach for the Oakland Athletics in 1989 when they"
"stay in the record book. They laid the foundation for the sport."" Lee scored additional victories with Ron Von Hagen and Jay Hanseth. In 1977 Greg Lee left the sand to play professional Basketball in Europe, returning to southern California two years later. Lee entered a total of 62 ""Open"" tournaments, reaching the finals 39 times while collecting 29 tournament titles. He was inducted into the CBVA Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1997. Following his athletic career Lee went on to become a teacher, working at Clairemont High School in San Diego teaching mathematics. He also coached varsity basketball"
"Jon Lee (volleyball player) Jon Lee (born 1949) is an American indoor and beach volleyball player, coach, and journalist. He won a national championship indoors in 1969 at the University of California Santa Barbara where he was a three time All-American. After graduating from UCSB, Lee played professional indoor volleyball with the Santa Barbara Spikers ('75) and with Son Amar in Spain ('74, '75), including winning the Spanish National Championship in Mallorca ('74). Lee began playing beach volleyball at age 10, competed throughout high school and college, won his AAA two-man rating on the beach in 1971, and maintained that"
"Greg Lee (basketball) Gregory Scott Lee (born December 12, 1951) is a retired American basketball player. He was the starting point guard on back to back NCAA championship teams at UCLA in 1972 and 1973. He then played two seasons of professional basketball: one in the original American Basketball Association (ABA) and one in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Lee, a 6'3"" guard, was an All American while playing at Reseda High School in Reseda, California. He played for UCLA from 1971 to 1974. When he arrived freshman were not allowed to compete on the Varsity team. Lee and his"
"and Past President of the D.C. Boxing Hall of Fame, and Chief Judge, D.C. Boxing Commission. In 1964 he was invited to Gambia and Mali in Africa to teach boxing for two months in summer training programs. Lee narrowly missed out of making the 1948 Summer Olympics, losing to Jay Lambert in the finals of the US Olympic Trials. In 1950 he won the New York Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in the heavyweight division, by KO over Nick Vasquez, the heavyweight Intercity Golden Gloves Championship, besting Kirby Seals and the National AAU Heavyeight Championship, when he decisioned Stan Howlett"
"was an infielder for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League and his aunt Annabelle Lee was a pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. “She was the best athlete in the family,"" Lee said. ""She taught me how to pitch."" Lee attended and played baseball at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael, California, graduating in 1964 before enrolling at the University of Southern California. At USC, Lee majored in physical education and geography and attended from 1964-1968 where he played for Rod Dedeaux and was part of the Trojans team which won the 1968 College World"
"sports first events. Two sports, the team sport of ultimate and disc golf are very popular worldwide and are now being played semi-professionally. The World Flying Disc Federation, Professional Disc Golf Association, and the Freestyle Players Association, are the official sanctioning organizations for disc sports worldwide. Guts was invented by the Healy Brothers in the 1950s and developed at the International Frisbee Tournament (IFT) in Marquette, Michigan. Ultimate, the most widely played disc sport, began in the late 1960s with Joel Silver and Jared Kass. In the 1970s it developed as an organized sport with the creation of the Ultimate"
"the new gymnasium in his honor. In 2013, the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department, local media and the Semana Nautica Association awarded Jon the R.F. MacFarland Memorial Trophy for his 22 years of service to youth. In 2017, Jon was inducted into the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Hall of Fame. Jon's younger brother Greg Lee is a retired American basketball player. Jon Lee (volleyball player) Jon Lee (born 1949) is an American indoor and beach volleyball player, coach, and journalist. He won a national championship indoors in 1969 at the University of California Santa Barbara where"
"freestyle. Organized disc sports, in the 1970s, began with promotional efforts from Wham-O and Irwin Toy (Canada), a few tournaments and professionals using frisbee show tours to perform at universities, fairs and sporting events. Disc sports such as freestyle, double disc court, guts, disc ultimate and disc golf became this sports first events. Fiction in the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with Erich Segal's ""Love Story"". The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade."
"who lifted professional wrestling to new heights of popularity. When he became world champion, there were not many sports competing with wrestling for public attention. Horse racing remained a favorite sport and major league baseball was growing in popularity, but was not yet the national pastime. Automobile racing was in its infancy; golf was still the province of the wealthy; basketball had just been invented and was vying for attention; boxing offered a man a chance at fame and fortune, but was at this time riddled with scandals; the National Hockey League was formed the same year; and college football—the"
"rating for well over a decade. Between 1971 and 1983 he teamed with three-time Olympic gold medalist Karch Kiraly; former Stanford men's and women's volleyball coach Don Shaw; NBA player, basketball All-American; and pro volleyball player Greg Lee, AVP Pro John Hanley; and many others. In 2015, he won the 60+ Sand National Championship for the third consecutive year and has won 10 other age-level titles at the annual Motherlode Volleyball Classic in Aspen. After finishing his professional volleyball career, Lee become a writer and Senior Editor for Volleyball Magazine, the world's first volleyball publication. He covered Olympic, Pan American"
"to take double gold at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. He graduated in January 2004 with a bachelor's degree in Journalism. After failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Team, Lee announced his retirement in 2008, but not before winning his final competition, his 6th U.S. National Championship and 5th on the senior level. He still holds more world championship medals (4) than any American male ever, and he remains the only American male fencer ever to win a Junior Olympic Championship, a National Championship, an NCAA Championship, a World Championship, a Pan American Championship and make"
"44.a4 g6 45.h3 Kg7 46.Rfc2 Rd5 47.b4 R8d7 48.b5 axb5 49.axb5 cxb5 50.Rxd5 Rxd5 51.Rc7 Rd7 52.Rc5 b4 53.g4 f5 54.Re5 Qf6 55.Re6 Qg5 56.Qc5 b3 57.Qb5 Rf7 58.Rxe4 Qf6 59.Rf4 Qc6+ 60.Qxc6 bxc6 0-1 Lee defeats another great player, Mikhail Chigorin, who lost two World Championship matches to Wilhelm Steinitz. Chigorin-Lee, London 1899 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.d3 Nd4 5.Qd1 Bb4 6.Bd2 Nf6 7.Nf3 Nc6 8.a3 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 d6 10.Be2 O-O 11.h3 Re8 12.Nd2 d5 13.b3 d4 14.Bb2 Ne7 15.Nf1 Ng6 16.Qd2 c5 17.g3 b5 18.h4 h6 19.f3 Bd7 20.Bc1 a5 21.Bd1 Qc7 22.Qg2 c4 23.Bd2 Ra6"
"rededicated and named Roy E. Lee Field. , or Retrosheet Roy Lee (baseball) Roy Edwin Lee (September 28, 1917 – November 11, 1985) was an American baseball player and collegiate coach. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Giants in 1945. Roy Lee was named the head coach of the Saint Louis University baseball program in 1960. In seven years, his Billikens built a record of 125–84–5. His teams won the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular season title in 1966 and the MVC Tournament championship in 1964–66, earning a place in the National Collegiate"
"Sang Lee Sang Chun Lee (; January 15, 1954 – October 19, 2004), most commonly known simply as Sang Lee, was a Korean American professional three-cushion billiards player and world champion. Born and raised in South Korea, Lee moved to New York City, United States, in 1987 at age 33. Dubbed the ""Michael Jordan of three-cushion billiards"" at the time of his arrival in the United States, Lee already had eight Korean national titles under his belt. Lee promptly went on to dominate three cushion billiards in the US, winning twelve consecutive United States Billiard Association National Three-cushion Championships, from"
"George Foreman George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1969 to 1977, and from 1987 to 1997. Nicknamed ""Big George"", he is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. Outside the sport he is an ordained minister, author, and entrepreneur. After a troubled childhood Foreman took up amateur boxing and won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Having turned professional the next year, he won the world heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973. Two successful title"
"48 events. The Manhattan Beach Open, the oldest and most prestigious pro beach event, was considered the premier event in the 1970s. Menges won the Manhattan five times, winning titles in 1975 and 1978 with Greg Lee, in 1977 with Chris Marlowe, in 1979 with Sinjin Smith and in 1981 with Randy Stoklos. Menges was considered king of the beach in the mid to late 1970s. He and Lee were the subject of numerous articles on beach volleyball, and the image of a bandana clad Jim Menges digging up a volleyball made the cover of Volleyball Magazine. Following a loss"
"included striking, kicking, knees, elbows and footsweeps. Only crescent kicks and round kicks were permitted to the head. Lewis is the first kickboxer to be featured in both The Ring boxing magazine and Sports Illustrated. Although promoter Lee Faulkner attempted to organize a legitimate ""world"" title fight between US champ Joe Lewis and a Thai kickboxing champion, a fight never materialized. By the end of 1971, interest in kickboxing had hit an all-time low, with promoters unable to attract a crowd to a kickboxing event. Lewis retired as undefeated United States Heavyweight Kickboxing champion in 1971. His record as the"
"him 8–0. Playing in the tournament earned Lee £150, the only prize money of his career, but he did not enter a professional tournament again. Sydney Lee (snooker player) Sydney Lee (April 1911 – 1986) was an English professional billiards and snooker player. He was four times a quarter-finalist in the World Snooker Championship during the first half of the twentieth century. He was a snooker referee on Pot Black. He was the game consultant for a 1970 episode of Steptoe and Son entitled ""Pot Black"" and, as well as performing a number of trick shots was the stand-in for"
"World Championships, by virtue of winning the Pacific region in 2002. At the 2003 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, Korea finished in last place. The following season he won a bronze medal at the Pacific curling championships. Lee did not play internationally for five years, before finishing 4th at the 2008 Pacific Curling Championships. Two years later he won a silver medal at the 2010 Pacific Curling Championships, losing to China's Wang Fengchun in the final. This qualified Lee for his second World championship, to be played in 2011. Lee was once a bowler, but made the transition to curling"
"Jason Lee (field hockey) Jason David Lee (born 21 May 1970)) is an English field hockey coach and former international player. Lee was born at Hayes in Greater London and played hockey at Old Bordenians Hockey Club in Sittingbourne in Kent. As a player, he won 82 caps for England and 35 for Great Britain, scoring 35 goals. He played in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, but retired after the 1998 World Cup to take up coaching. Lee started coaching for England men from 2003 and Great Britain men from 2004. His squads competed at three successive Olympic Games"
"that won the Gold Cup, the premier teams event in Britain, in 2003 and 2011. This makes him the only person who has won British championships in both chess and bridge. As a consultant in medical statistics and epidemiology, he has also published over 200 papers, many on the effects of tobacco on health. Peter Lee (chess player) Peter Nicholas Lee (born 21 November 1943) is an English chess player who won the British Chess Championship in 1965. Born in London and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he represented Oxford University in the Varsity chess matches of 1963, 1964, 1965,"
"20.gxf5 exf5 21.Kh1 Qe6 22.Rg1 Rac8 23.Rg2 Rc7 24.Rag1 Rb8 25.Qh5 Bf8 26.Bxe4! dxe4 27.d5! Qxd5 28. Ng4! Rb6 29.Nf6+ Rxf6 30.Bxf6 Qf7 31.Rxg7+ Bxg7 32.Rxg7+ Qxg7 33.Bxg7 Kxg7 34.Qxf5 Rf7 35.Qe5+ Kg8 36.Qe6 Bb7 37.Qe8+ Kg7 38.Qxb5 Re7 39.h4 Bc8 40. Qc5 Re8 41.Qxa5 Kf7 42.Qc7+ Kf6 43.Qc6+ Kf7 44.Qxc4+ Kf6 45.Qc6+ Kf7 46. Qd5+ Be6 47.Qh5+ Ke7 48.Qc5+ Kd8 49.f5 Bf7 50.f6 1-0 Francis Joseph Lee Francis Joseph Lee (""c."" 1857, London – 12 September 1909, London) was an English chess master. Lee played in a number of matches, and British and international chess tournaments, between 1883 and"
"Roy Lee (baseball) Roy Edwin Lee (September 28, 1917 – November 11, 1985) was an American baseball player and collegiate coach. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Giants in 1945. Roy Lee was named the head coach of the Saint Louis University baseball program in 1960. In seven years, his Billikens built a record of 125–84–5. His teams won the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular season title in 1966 and the MVC Tournament championship in 1964–66, earning a place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) playoffs. Lee's Billikens placed third in the"