Babashoff

The 1976 women’s 4×100 freestyle relay swimming team, anchored by Shirley Babashoff in its stunning upset over the East Germans, and the 2002 men’s Paralympic sled hockey team also were inducted after being voted into the hall by a mix of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, media and administrators and fans.

The 1976 women’s 4×100 freestyle relay swimming team, anchored by Shirley Babashoff in its stunning upset over the East Germans, and the 2002 men’s Paralympic sled hockey team also were voted into the hall by a mix of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, media and administrators and fans.

Hours after the news broke on Monday of more failed drug tests by medal-winning athletes at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, Shirley Babashoff and two of her 1976 U.S.

Babashoff’s outspoken censure of the East Germans in 1976 earned her the nickname Surly Shirley from an American press contingent that took umbrage at her lack of sportsmanship.

King, who won the Breakout Performer of the Year award, said she was humbled to be acknowledged by Babashoff and Boglioli.