Muhammad Ali still carrying that torch on his 70th birthday | Richard Williams
- (guardian.co.uk/sport/boxing) - 4 months ago...
It is 16 years since Ali lit the Olympic Flame but his embodiment of sporting and social history burns as brightly as everMuhammad Ali is 70 on Tuesday and those of us who were assembled in Atlanta, Georgia on the evening of 19 July 1996 may be celebrating with a feeling of slight astonishment. Having watched the world's most famous sporting figure grasp the Olympic torch unsteadily in his right hand while his left shook uncontrollably with the symptom of Parkinson's disease as he stoo...
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