#6 Ali was awarded a replacement medal at the 1996 Olympics
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After the 18-year-old fighter won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he wrote in his autobiography that he threw his gold medal off a bridge and into the Ohio River to protest against racism that he still encountered in his hometown. Well, that is how the story goes, which Ali later came to deny.
He said that he had misplaced the medal and lost it and didn’t throw it away in a river. During the 1996 Summer Olympics, at which he lit the cauldron in the Opening Ceremonies, Ali received a replacement gold medal by the IOC.
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