In acknowledgement of the 2020 Olympics, which would have kicked off in Tokyo this week, the Criterion Collection is streaming its monumental collection 100 Years of Olympic Films on their streaming ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The Olympics make for great stories, personal triumphs and Cinderella moments. On Sept. 10, 1960, one such story unfolded ...
FOOT SOLDIER: Running without shoes, Bikila, an Imperial Guardsman in Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's court, pulls ahead in the 1960 Rome marathonPopperfoto/Getty A few of the other runners ...
In March 1896, near the small village of Adoua in Tigray (Ethiopia), troops from the Italian kingdom led by Colonel Oreste Baratieri clashed with the Ethiopian soldiers of Emperor Menelik II. The ...
Abebe Bikila, a wily 5'9" runner weighing just 55 kilos (122 pounds), was the first black African to win Olympic gold Abebe Bikila, a wily 5'9" runner weighing just 55 kilos (122 pounds), was the ...
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