Sammy Lee dives during training at the 1948 London Olumpics at the Empire Pool in Wembley, England. Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning diver who later mentored four-time Olympic diving ...

O n paper, diver Sammy Lee (1920-2016) could be described as an overachiever: Three Olympic medals (two golds and one bronze) and two Pan American medals (a silver and a bronze), first Asian ...

One final time, family and friends paid tribute to and retold funny stories about Sammy Lee, the renowned Olympic gold-medal-winning diver at the Town and Gown building at USC on Saturday.

Sammy Lee may be 61 but the vastly experienced coach isn’t ready to slow down. “I’m always an early riser,” he tells The Athletic.

The 5-foot Lee, who was of Korean descent, was the first Asian-American man to win an Olympic gold medal for the U.S. In this April 18, 2012 file photo, Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee waves ...

Sammy Lee learned to dive at Pasadena’s Brookside Park pool, which until 1940 allowed people of color to use the facilities only on Wednesdays, the day before it was drained and refilled.