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    Did Muhammad Ali Really Throw His Olympic Gold Medal Into The River?

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    Muhammad Ali is a retired American boxer, who was termed as Sportsman of the century. He won the World Heavy weight championship three times and has also won Olympic Light-heavyweight gold medal. It is true that Ali threw his Olympic Gold medal in the Ohio river, when he was refused to be served at a whites only restaurant and he has mentioned it in his autobiography. He was also given another medal in replacement during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

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      According to Thomas Hauser, Ali's official biographer, Ali did not throw the medal into the Ohio River. He was refused service at a diner in Louisville, but lost the medal years later when he was living in Miami. Hauser refutes the Medal story in the book

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