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Olympic Gold Medalist, Wilma Rudolph  

PhxHiker
2/2/2007 3:56 pm

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2/2/2007 11:35 pm
Wilma didn’t get much of a head start in life. A bout with polio left her left leg crooked and her foot twisted inward so she had to wear leg braces. After seven years of painful therapy, she could walk without her braces. At age 12 Wilma tried out for a girls basketball team, but didn’t make it. Determined, she practiced with a girlfriend and two boys every day. The next year she made the team. When a college track coach saw her during a game, he talked her into letting him train her as a runner. By age 14 she had outrun the fastest sprinters in the U.S. In 1956 Wilma made the U.S. Olympic team, but showed poorly. That bitter disappointment motivated her to work harder for the 1960 Olympics in Rome—and there Wilma Rudolph won three gold medals, the most a woman had ever won.
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merry12
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2/2/2007 4:27 pm

 Ow, Terry, no can read. Change your font color a bit
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Merry
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy. ~Edwin Markham~

PhxHiker
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2/2/2007 11:35 pm
    Quoting merry12:
    Ow, Terry, no can read. Change your font color a bit
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