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14. Wilma Rudolph
| No other great athlete lived a life of such extremes. She suffered from polio as a child and died too young of cancer, but in between, she was a captivating and conquering sprinter. We all fell in love with the prime Tigerbelle from Tennessee State at the '60 Olympics in Rome, where she was so scintillating that she made a young boxer named Cassius Clay an envious second banana. |
Photograph by John G. Zimmerman
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