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Greg Louganis meets President Barack Obama

Olympic legend Greg Louganis and his husband Johnny Chaillot-Louganis met President Barack Obama at The White House this week.

Johnny noted on Facebook that this is the sixth US president that Greg has met!

The others have been Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Carter was president in 1976 when then 16-year-old Greg won an Olympic Silver Medal at the Summer Games in Montreal.

Then four years later, it was Carter who decided US athletes would not compete in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Louganis had been favored to win two gold medals that year.

He did so four years later in 1984 when Reagan was president (see photo below) then won his third and fourth gold (and fifth Olympic medal overall) in 1988 when the elder Bush was president.

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