Wilma Rudolph #1145
$ 8.00
Caption from poster__
“ My doctors told me I
would never walk again.
My mother told me I would.
I believed my mother ”.
The "fastest woman in the world"
at the 1960 Olympics where she won
three gold medals, Wilma Rudolph wore
metal braces on her legs as a child.
At the 1960 Olympics where she won three gold medals, Wilma Rudolph wore metal braces on her legs as a child. Rudolph was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and at early age it was discovered that she, the 20th of 22 children, had polio. Her mother took her to a hospital for blacks 50 miles from their home twice a week, and rubbed her leg 4 times a day.Finally at age 12, she could walk normally again — and she decided to become an athlete on the influence of a track coach. She lost many of her early races. Slowly she went from last, to second from last, to first in all her races.
