Also in attendance was Lin Dunn, who coached Catchings and the Fever for seven seasons, winning a championship in 2012, when Catchings was named the most valuable player of the finals.
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CATCH A STAR by Tamika Catchings with Ken Petersen (Revell).
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"I remember in the beginning being so scared," Catchings said.
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"We know we're moving in the right direction," Catchings said.
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I'm going to go watch some old Tamika Catchings game film.
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But Catchings became much more than just a big-time player.
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Like Taurasi, Bird and Catchings, this will be Anthony's fourth Olympics.
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Catchings and Simpson also played for both teams in the game.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Tamika Catchings relishes every moment she has left on the court.
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We got Catchings -- a 10-time WNBA All-Star -- out in NYC and asked if it was time the NBA hired it's first-ever female HC ... and Catchings agreed Hammon should get the hire, but gender ain't the reason.
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Remember how Taurasi is about to pass Catchings for most offensive win shares?
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Taurasi became the W.N.B.A.'s career leader in playoff scoring, passing Tamika Catchings.
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To do that, Catchings, 36, must embrace the new reality of her basketball world.
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"There's some things that you're not going to be able to get," Catchings said.
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As her generation steps aside, Catchings sees Charles's foray into the limelight as a necessity.
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By player efficiency rating, Taurasi is looking up at Jackson, Catchings, and Leslie, among others.
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She should also soon pass Tamika Catchings as the career leader in offensive win shares.
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Indiana Pacers forward Paul George, who bought 5,000 tickets for Sunday's game to distribute to the general public so more people can see Catchings play, switched uniform numbers, from 24 to 13, so that there will be only one 24 in Indiana: Tamika Catchings.
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Tamika Catchings, Simone Biles, and Simone Manuel were among those who received their own Marvel portraits.
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Catchings is President of the WNBA Players Association ... so she'll likely be in on those talks.
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You are running out of time to watch the greatest basketball player in WNBA history, Tamika Catchings.
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In Italy, they lived next to Harvey Catchings, another basketball big man making a living in Europe.
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Terri Carmichael Jackson, who took the job in May, said Catchings had been vital in helping her transition.
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But not lost on Catchings is the precarious spot the new format puts her own title chase in.
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Often, Ogwumike did not speak, but quietly took notes and then evaluated information afterward with Catchings or Cash.
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The Philadelphia 76ers sent Harvey Catchings and Ralph Simpson to the Nets for Eric Money and Al Skinner.
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Tamika Catchings, who scored 23 points for the Fever (5-8), missed a potential winning runner as regulation expired.
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They watched the daughter of the former N.B.A. player Harvey Catchings overcome a hearing impairment that affected both ears.
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She'll be honored, of course, but it isn't easy to get Catchings herself to wade through all the numbers.
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"Not really," Catchings said when asked Friday whether she's considered the statistical totals she has compiled in the WNBA.
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Catchings is set to retire after this season, and Wednesday could be the last game of her storied career.
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After those games, Catchings will sign autographs and auction off personal mementos, including the game shoes she wore each night.
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Tamika Catchings, currently working in the Fever front office, would be a popular candidate in this vein, as would Lobo.
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As a five-time W.N.B.A. defensive player of the year, Tamika Catchings was adept at predicting how situations should unfold.
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Speaking of influences in your life, your dad, Harvey Catchings, played in the NBA and played with Dr. J. in Philadelphia.
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To put that in perspective, the last time the WNBA held a playoffs without Catchings, Breanna Stewart was seven years old.
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Lauren Jackson is second, at 72.97, which makes Catchings is 27 percent higher than the second-best player in league history.
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But Catchings sought her out, approaching Ogwumike during her rookie orientation in 2012 to suggest she become involved with the union.
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The full list of nominees includes Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Kim Mulkey, Rudy Tomjanovich, Barbara Stevens, Eddie Sutton, and Tamika Catchings.
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Catchings is also the league's all-time leader in defensive win shares, with 36.52, and only Lisa Leslie has even eclipsed 30.
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Tamika Catchings is planning to retire after this W.N.B.A. season, and she will leave an immeasurable void on the Indiana Fever roster.
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Nine of the 12 players had already won gold medals before Saturday, and three — Bird, Taurasi and Tamika Catchings — had three apiece.
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The longtime national team member Tamika Catchings, who wore similar black shirts in protest with the Fever, is retiring after this season.
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And according to win shares—which, unlike the other advanced stats we've mentioned, is cumulative—she ranks well behind Catchings and Jackson.
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And Catchings has done all of not merely by sticking around for so long, but by consistently playing at an elite level.
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Sports Briefing | Olympics Tamika Catchings, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are among the 25 finalists for the United States women's basketball Olympics team.
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Three U.S. players - Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Tamika Catchings - equalled the Olympic record of four gold medals in women's and men's basketball.
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So this August, while players like Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings go to Rio, the WNBA will go on hiatus for a month.
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Catchings managed to be so valuable not through a single skill or two, but by maximizing virtually everything she does on the court.
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Put another way, by this measure, Catchings isn't just the greatest player in league history, she's more than 20 percent better than anyone else.
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"I take photos of everything, so at the end there will probably be a photo album," said Catchings, who is retiring after this season.
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Anthony later spoke at a news conference, where he was joined by community leaders and by Tamika Catchings of the W.N.B.A.'s Indiana Fever.
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Now Catchings is poised to become the only WNBA player to ever spend her entire career of fifteen or more seasons with the same franchise.
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Fever forward Tamika Catchings said there were positives and negatives to the new setup, which will probably not be evident until the system plays out.
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Last year, Catchings was on the road in Connecticut with the Indiana Fever when she decided it was time to execute a full-court press.
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Sometime around the end of this season or early next season, Taurasi will pass Tamika Catchings for the all-time mark in WNBA offensive win shares.
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Sports Briefing | Olympics The four-time Olympians Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings headline the United States women's basketball team heading to the Rio Games.
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As a rookie, she led the Sky to a 20133-10 record before losing to Tamika Catchings and the Indiana Fever in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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Tamika Catchings is playing in her fifteenth, and final, WNBA season, for the Indiana Fever, and she will be playing in the summer Olympic games in Rio.
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Instead of giving speeches or accepting gifts from teams, Catchings is presenting $2,000 grants to a local charity that promote fitness, literacy and mentoring in 12 cities.
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Catchings is one of those players frequently described as possessing all the intangibles, but one needn't rely on the ephemeral to appreciate exactly what she has accomplished.
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Tamika Catchings' Indiana Fever would've finished fifth, taking on the Atlanta Dream, who won a head-to-head tiebreaker with the Connecticut Sun, in the first round.
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Catchings was retiring from the post, which she had held since 2004, and needed a fitting successor to steer the interests of the W.N.B.A.'s 144 players.
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She takes over a national team in transition as Tamika Catchings, a four-time Olympian, has retired and some key players have not committed to playing again.
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WNBA superstar Tamika Catchings is severely disappointed in her league for its reaction to players supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and thinks something needs to change quickly.
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After her final regular-season game Sunday against the Dallas Wings, Catchings finished as the league's career leader in rebounds and steals and as its second-highest scorer.
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Although they will not miss her lockdown defense and her spinning past them en route to the basket, Catchings has been president of the players' union since 2004.
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Cash said she and Catchings frequently discussed the gratification of watching a younger generation of players become more involved in the union and wanting to dictate their future.
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She takes over a national team in transition as four-times Olympic gold medallist Tamika Catchings has retired while some key players have not committed to playing again.
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Catchings and the Fever already are in the playoffs again, something her Fever have done every single season she has been in the league, dating back to 2002.
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Watching the incredible Olympic feats performed by athletes like American swimmers Katie Ledecky and Simone Manuel, gymnast Simone Biles, and basketball player Tamika Catchings will leave you speechless.
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None of three four-time Olympians — Catchings is the oldest at 37 — may get to equal the five Olympic appearances by Edwards and Leslie, who were both courtside Sunday.
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WNBA legend Tamika Catchings says Becky Hammon should get the Milwaukee Bucks head coaching job ... and it's not so the NBA can make history, it's because Hammon DESERVES the gig.
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As she evolved from shy rookie to gregarious veteran, Catchings became an ambassador for women's basketball, a role model for her teammates and a friend to almost anyone she met.
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The Fever will host a first-round playoff game on Wednesday against the Phoenix Mercury, but on Sunday, Catchings was celebrated for her influence on basketball and the Indianapolis community.
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In recalling Catchings's life earlier this week, Dunn noted how, as a child, Catchings was shy, often being teased for having a hearing impairment, a fact she now openly embraces.
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Former N.B.A. stars Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett will join Bryant on the ballot, while Tamika Catchings, a 10-time W.N.B.A. All-Star, was nominated by the women's screening committee.
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The list of 50 eligible candidates was announced Thursday, with other first-time nominees including Tamika Catchings, Swin Cash, Chris Bosh, Shawn Marion, Michael Finley, Mark Eaton and Buck Williams.
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With the U.S. victory Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings and Diana Taurasi joined former team mates Teresa Edwards and Lisa Leslie as the only players to win four gold medals in basketball.
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The veteran American forward Tamika Catchings, who is preparing for her fourth Olympics, said the toughest thing about facing Australia, France and Canada was knowing that they would see them again.
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"The thing that I'm most proud of as of late is with the Black Lives Matter and just kind of how we all stood united and had a uniformed front," Catchings said.
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"We've been very successful, but just making sure that we keep that level of consistency in every single game even though we just continue to get better and better," Catchings said Saturday.
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Catchings said that she had come away from the event feeling that it had made a difference — both for the young people who shared their fears and for the police officers who listened.
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"I told her, 'I feel like I've watched you grow up in the last few years, just being so quiet and taking a step back, to being really outgoing and outspoken,'" Catchings said.
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"My job is to compete, but we understand that this is someone who is equivalent to Kobe Bryant retiring," Dallas Wings guard Skylar Diggins, whose team faces Catchings on Sunday, said on Friday.
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Catchings said she was planning to approach Paul George of the Indiana Pacers — a men's national team member who participated in the event — about leading a similar forum in Indianapolis, where they both play.
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By offensive rating, which attempts to encapsulate a player's full offensive value, she trails Jackson, plus a handful of other greats with far fewer games played, but ranks ahead of Leslie, Catchings, and Swoopes.
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In 2012, it took Tamika Catchings doing everything—in the clinching game for the Indiana Fever, she scored 20163 points, dished out eight assists, grabbed four rebounds and a steal, and blocked three shots.
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It was the fourth gold for the veteran trio of Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, and Tamika Catchings; it was the first for the oncoming wave of Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner, and Breanna Stewart.
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There are even quintuple doubles, a stupefying exploit — 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks — performed by the women's star Tamika Catchings when she was in high school in 1997.
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But for Catchings, perhaps in part because of the gap in coverage and fame between the NBA and WNBA, realizing the magnitude of it all isn't something that intrudes into her day-to-day life.
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Here are the career effective field goal percentage (as of Sunday afternoon) marks for the WNBA's top 20 all-time scorers: Taurasi ranks second, ahead of fellow greats like Leslie, Catchings, Sheryl Swoopes and Lauren Jackson.
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Cash and Catchings are first-time nominees among a list of women that includes Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, nominated as both a coach and player, and Becky Hammon, who is currently an assistant coach with the Spurs.
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Moore is quietly on pace to be the consensus best player in the history of the league... ...which would lead her past Tamika Catchings, who to my mind is an inexcusable omission from this Mount Rushmore as well.
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Catchings, the Indiana Fever's longtime franchise player, still is not sure how she will feel during her final season opener Saturday against Dallas, or what her emotions might be when she plays her final home game later this year.
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In previous years, it was not uncommon for players to call Catchings and other union leaders in the middle of the night, or while playing overseas, looking for explanations of rules and contracts or help settling disagreements with agents.
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In the cases of Taurasi, Bird and their Olympic teammate Tamika Catchings, it is those who have heard the tales of certain woe and potential mayhem for the last dozen years and responded by asking, When do we leave?
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"Instead of the league taking a stance with us, where they tell us they appreciate our expressing our concerns like they did for Orlando, we're fighting against each other," Indiana Fever All-Star Tamika Catchings told The New York Times.
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Catchings and other union leaders, including Ruth Riley and the current Liberty forward Swin Cash, worked to establish a new foundation for a union that could serve as a first point of contact for players' professional, and even personal, issues.
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"She was the epitome of what being great is all about," said Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings, one of the dozens of former Lady Volunteers who paid respects to Summitt at a "Celebration of Life" ceremony at Thompson-Boling Arena.
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Built on the efforts of Catchings, Swin Cash and others who have now retired, the union has developed a strong voice tackling social issues, gaining benefits for players while competing home and abroad, and backing equitable support measures throughout professional sports.
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The Vromans and the Catchingses car-pooled their kids to school; the group included a little girl named Tamika Catchings, a future star in the W.N.B.A. In Italy, the Vromans met Joe Bryant, another expat basketball player, who was known as Jelly Bean.
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The exhibition spans decades, and puts some of Detroit's hometown heroes, like artists Senghor Reid, Saffell Gardner, Tylon Sawyer, and Yvonne Park Catchings, in conversation with artists that have national and international profiles, like Carrie Mae Weems, Sanford Biggers, Hank Willis Thomas, and Melvin Edwards.
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And they will be there to watch Catchings close out a career that included a Rookie of the Year Award, 10 All-Star appearances, five W.N.B.A. Defensive Player of the Year Awards, one most valuable player trophy, one W.N.B.A. title and M.V.P. honors in the 13 finals.
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The United States have won seven of the 10 gold medals in women's basketball at the Olympics — the other three were won by the Soviet Union/Unified Team — and will be powered in Rio by four-times Olympic gold medalists Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings.
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In July, during USA Basketball's exhibition tour in New York, I watched as Robinson worked the sidelines with notebook in hand and pen at the ready, quietly chatting with Tamika Catchings, hugging Breanna Stewart and warmly wishing her luck in Rio, and pausing to snap a picture with Sue Bird.
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Other notable names on the list with Bryant, a five-time NBA champion and the fourth all-time leading scorer in league history, are former San Antonio Spurs center Tim Duncan; Kevin Garnett, a 15-time all-star who played primarily for the Minnesota Timberwolves; and former WNBA superstar and four-time Olympic gold medalist Tamika Catchings.
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For example, here's Laura Braga's breathtaking depiction of Olympic gold medal winner Simone Manuel making the water do her bidding: And here's artist Kevin Wada giving Simone Biles a Spider-Man-esque treatment, showing her flipping around a city with a powerful grin on her face: Jeff Dekal drew Katie Ledecky swimming with some of the only creatures in the sea that can keep up with her: And Afua Richardson created this inspiring image of Tamika Catchings rising above a metropolis to dunk a ball: Seeing these athletes get the superhero treatment they deserve is pretty neat.
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