Wilma Rudolph
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"Wilma Glodean Rudolph" was an United States/African American Track and field/athlete and an Olympic champion. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.

In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games. A track and field champion, she elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer. Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later became Muhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.

The powerful Sprint (running)/sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado, the fastest woman on earth". The Italy/Italians nicknamed her La Gazzella Nera ("The Black Gazelle"); to the French she was La Perle Noire ("The Black Pearl").

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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.