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| Olympic games
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| Ancient olympic champions, event unknown |
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|  ROME (Ancient city) ITALY |
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Gnaeus Marcius
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Equestrian competition, two times winner: 196th & 197th Olympiads, 5 & 9 A.D.
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| Ancient olympic champions, four-horse chariot |
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Tiberius Cladius Nero
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4 B.C., 194th Olympiad.
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Germanicus Caesar Tiberius
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17 A.D., 199th Olympiad.
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| Ancient olympic champions, long-race |
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Gaius, 72 B.C., 177th Olympiad
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| Ancient olympic champions, multiple victories |
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Nero the Emperor, 65 A.D., 211st Olympiad
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65
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| | ROME (Town) LAZIO |
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Rome 1960
The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos The Eternal City opens its gates widely to receive the 1960
Olympics. These are the Games that all the experts prognosed sure victories
for German and Soviet women runners. The surprise, though, came from Tennessee
with the American Black Antilope, Wilma Rudolph.
Wilma, the 19th child, out of a total of 22, was a shy, lean and
a good student girl. One morning, while reciting a poem in class, she fell on
the floor. The diagnosis that came later was paralysis due to polio. One more
statistic number added to the thousands the world - and especially the U.S.
- was suffering daily. A few months later, the doctors applied metal supporters
around her knees and ankles. But Wilma was made after the recipe that rare people
are made. She convinced her father to free her from the supporters. In the months
that followed she devised a series of exercises. She'd grab a chair, pull herself
up, she'd stand still. Then she'd try a few steps. Within six months she could
walk a few times around her room. And next year she could half-run a few times
around the forest across her house. Faster. And faster. And again. And again.
Now, in Rome, she made the German and the Soviet girls see the
rivalry coming from the American South. She won three golds. But her actual
victory was against polio. She became a symbol of hope for millions of children
all over the world.
Rome gave the world another star as well. That was Cassius Clay,
later known as Muhammad Ali, who won the gold for the light-heavyweight boxing
event. Ali became a professional right after the Games and he is the only athlete
in the world to have amassed the greatest amount ever earned by a sportsman.
His earnings are estimated today to have passed the $96 million mark!
Rome gives us her tragic note due to steroids. Danish cyclist Knut
Jensen collapsed to death and while, originally, there was a diagnosis stating
excessive heat during the race, there was a later statement that verified an
overdose of drugs...
Text by Dimitri N. Marcopoulos
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1960 Rome Olympics: Various WebPages
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