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- Al won the discus throw at
- four straight Olympics and
- set an Olympic record
- each time. He was also
- the first person to throw
- the discus more than 200 feet.
-
- In 1954, when he was a high school student,
- in West Babylon, New York, Al set a national
- high school discus record. He earned a
- scholarship to the University of Kansas.
- Following his sophomore year in 1956, he
- qualified for his first Olympic team.
-
- Al won gold medals at the 1956 and 1960
- Games, but his most amazing Olympic
- performance came in 1964. He suffered
- extreme back pain, and less than one
- week before the Olympics, he tore
-