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#OTD in Rome in 1960 a young teenage boxer from #Louisville named #CassiusClay won the #GoldMedal in the light heavyweight boxing division at the #OlympicGames.
The 18 yr old Clay, who reportedly wore a parachute on the entire flight from USA to Italy, defeated 25 yr old Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (standing to the right of Clay as you look at the photograph) . A previous bronze #medallist in the 1956 Melbourne #Olympics , the Polish boxer was a veteran of 231 matches at the time of the Rome Games, compared with Clay’s 108.
The judges gave the wily future black Muslim fighter from Kentucky a unanimous 5-0 decision for the gold.
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#OTD in Rome in 1960 a young teenage boxer from #Louisville named #CassiusClay won the #GoldMedal in the light heavyweight boxing division at the #OlympicGames.
The 18 yr old Clay, who reportedly wore a parachute on the entire flight from USA to Italy, defeated 25 yr old Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (standing to the right of Clay as you look at the photograph) . A previous bronze #medallist in the 1956 Melbourne #Olympics , the Polish boxer was a veteran of 231 matches at the time of the Rome Games, compared with Clay’s 108.
The judges gave the wily future black Muslim fighter from Kentucky a unanimous 5-0 decision for the gold.
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#OTD in Rome in 1960 a young teenage boxer from #Louisville named #CassiusClay won the #GoldMedal in the light heavyweight boxing division at the #OlympicGames.
The 18 yr old Clay, who reportedly wore a parachute on the entire flight from USA to Italy, defeated 25 yr old Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (standing to the right of Clay as you look at the photograph) . A previous bronze #medallist in the 1956 Melbourne #Olympics , the Polish boxer was a veteran of 231 matches at the time of the Rome Games, compared with Clay’s 108.
The judges gave the wily future black Muslim fighter from Kentucky a unanimous 5-0 decision for the gold.
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#OTD in Rome in 1960 a young teenage boxer from #Louisville named #CassiusClay won the #GoldMedal in the light heavyweight boxing division at the #OlympicGames.
The 18 yr old Clay, who reportedly wore a parachute on the entire flight from USA to Italy, defeated 25 yr old Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (standing to the right of Clay as you look at the photograph) . A previous bronze #medallist in the 1956 Melbourne #Olympics , the Polish boxer was a veteran of 231 matches at the time of the Rome Games, compared with Clay’s 108.
The judges gave the wily future black Muslim fighter from Kentucky a unanimous 5-0 decision for the gold.