The 1960 Olympics TeeIn 1960, an 18 year old Muhammad Ali won a gold medal for boxing at the Olympics in Rome. This was a great victory for anyone but especially a young black man during the Civil Rights Movement. However, Ali was not the only champion who shook the world at the 1960 Olympics. Wilma Rudolph, a young woman who had polio as a child and was told she wouldn't even be able to walk ran her way into history becoming the first American woman to bring home 3 gold