Gary Hall Jr.'s harrowing experience escaping the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and seeing his home engulfed in flames, was not the first time he was in a life-threatening situation.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — After all his Olympic medals were destroyed in the Los Angeles fires, swimming great Gary Hall Jr. set an unexpected record replacing them at IOC headquarters Monday.

Gary Hall Jr. won 10 Olympic medals with the U.S. swimming team from 1996-2004, then lost them all in January when the house he was renting in the Pacific Palisades went up in flames. He now has ...

Gary Hall Jr. was a five-time Olympic gold medalist known for trash talk. Here's his advice from a 'humbling' swim career after fires upset his life.

Ten Olympic medals awarded to one athlete on the same day. “I’ll do a better job of taking care of these,” Hall Jr. quipped, receiving the new set of five golds, three silvers and two ...

American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds an original medal, that melted during the wildfires in Los Angeles that destroyed his home earlier this year, while wearing the replica Olympic medals that IOC ...

Medals replaced US swimmer Gary Hall Jr. (L) holds one of the original medals as he is presented with repilicas of his Olympic medals by IOC President Thomas Bach during a handover ceremony after ...

Gary Hall Jr.'s harrowing experience escaping the Los Angeles wildfires in January, and seeing his home engulfed in flames, was not the first time he was in a life-threatening situation.

Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had earned 10 medals across three Olympic games, but they all were destroyed when wildfires burned across Los Angeles earlier this year.