Oprah Winfrey has turned obscure books into best-sellers, an obscure and balding psychologist into a TV star named Dr. Phil and somehow got Tom Cruise to jump on her couch. Now, in what could be bad news for Tokyo, Rio De Janeiro and Madrid, the television icon is trying to help Chicago win the 2016 Olympics - and brought more than 170 American medalists in the Beijing Games to town Wednesday to help.
Swimmers Michael Phelps and Dara Torres, gymnasts Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin, beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh and others joined Winfrey to tape her season premier of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'"