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  1.                                  some rib cartilage. 
  2.                                  (Cartilage is elastic 
  3.                                  skeletal tissue.) Doctors 
  4.                                  advised him to rest for six 
  5.                                  weeks, but Al decided to 
  6. compete anyway. On his first throw in the 
  7. preliminary round, he set a new Olympic 
  8. record, which he broke again in the final. Al 
  9. won his fourth Olympic gold medal in 1968. 
  10.