He eventually won back his title, and went on to light the torch in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
However, he was stripped of his title and banned from fighting when he refused to respond to a Vietnam War draft notice. After winning the WBA and WBC Heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964, he became an icon of hope in the suppressed African-American community. Named Cassius Clay at birth, Ali won his first Gold Medal in heavyweight boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. This autobiography explores Muhammad Ali’s fascinating life as an athlete, an actor, and an icon. team went on to compete against Finland, eventually winning the Gold Medal. After scoring the winning goal in the last seconds of the game, the U.S. However, this all changed during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, when they were defeated by the underdog amateur U.S. In the politically tense years of the Cold War, the Soviets dominated hockey competitions nationally and internationally. However, he went on to win double gold medals, a triumph that came months after his diagnosis of HIV. Having struggled with dyslexia, repressed homosexuality, and HIV over the course of his life, Louganis suffered a concussion while diving in the Seoul Summer Olympics in 1988. In his bestselling autobiography, Greg Louganis talks about resilience in the face of internal and external struggles. In addition to popularizing track and field in the United States, she also became an African-American icon of strength and resilience in the midst of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. In the 1960 summer Olympics in Rome, Wilma Rudolph overcame childhood diagnoses of scarlet fever and polio-induced paralysis to become a three-time gold-medal winner in track and field, the first American woman to do so. With painstaking research, Jeremy Schnaap (author of Cinderella Man) tells the thrilling true story of how Jesse Owens became an Olympic Legend. Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics by Jeremy SchnaapĪt the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which athletes dubbed the “Nazi Olympics,” the African-American Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track and field, singlehandedly disproving Hitler’s myth of Aryan superiority. Here are six books about Olympic athletes who overcame incredible odds to take their places on the winner’s podium.
Inspiring tales of resilience, courage, and triumph in the face of adversity populate the rich history of the Olympics.
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