The 2012 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team, which earned gold in London, was at first known as the “Fab Five.”
That’s what media dubbed Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross, whose triumph highlights NBCSN’s Olympic Games Week coverage on Thursday night. A full schedule is here.
But Fab Five had already been taken by the University of Michigan men’s basketball team of the early 1990s, which for a time featured five freshmen in the starting lineup. Jalen Rose, a member of that basketball team, took issue with it being reused.