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Al Oerter The Short List Won gold medals in the discus 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, setting Olympic record in each First track and field athlete to win four gold medals in the same event Only athlete to set four consecutive Olympic records Did You Know? Became the first thrower to break the 200-foot barrier in 1962 Attended the University of Kansas Began throwing when he was 15 when a discuss landed at his feet and he threw it back past the group of throwers Competed among the world's best throwers until he was 49 Won a gold medal in the 1964 Olympic Games despite torn cartilage around his ribs Is now a painter Worked 26 years as a computer specialist for Grumman Aircraft Corporation In the 1960 Olympics, Oerter had a series of bad throws. His leading American teammate gave him advice, and Oerter won the gold with his fifth throw. "He had a gold medal in his pocket but he was a friend and a great teammate," Oerter told BBC News. Tried out for the 1980 and 1984 Olympic teams and was an alternate in the boycotted 1980 Olympics It's Every Day Oerter maintains a tie to the Olympic movement through Art of the Olympians, a program he founded to give him and other former Olympians who've taken up art to showcase their work. Growing up in New York City, Oerter always had an interest in abstract art but never did anything with it until 1980 -- when he was commissioned to create something in support of the U.S. Olympic team. There was one catch: He had to use a discus. "They said: 'All right, here's a bunch of paint and some canvas, now do something,'" he said. Quote Of his first four Olympic titles, he told ESPN.com: "The first would be the most surprising, the second the most difficult, the third most painful, the fourth most satisfying." ----------------------------------------------------------------

(Qerter died a few years after the original post)

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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting, we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.

Ralph Boston (long jump)

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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

Bruce Jenner

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- On the way back, it struck me that I could have beaten most of the guys in the meet. That's when I decided to be a decathlon man.

-The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

Rafer Johnson

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I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete.

It always seemed to evolve. When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Dick Fosbury , Olympic high jumper

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"No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example."
Brian Oldfield, smoking cigarettes between his shot puts.

"When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire."
Randy Matson after loosing the OG-qualification 1972.