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The Brave Hearts throwing the disc. Eventually Bill could defeat the greatest player the world had produced in discus throw.
In the 1960 Olympic meet held in Rome, he stood first in the event and won the gold. He was the first athlete in the world who could hurl the 16 lb. iron ball at a distance of 65 ft. and 10 inches. The most astonishing part of the thing is that he
Bill Nieder participating could muster maximum
in shotpul competition strength from his right leg, which the doctors had predicted would remain stiff permanently and therefore would be of no use to him for the whole of his life
Three physically impaired persons walked for eleven days on crutches and covered the distance from Pune to Mumbai. These three were - Shantilal Anandji Sampat, Gopal Bhanushali and Ashok Arjun Gori. Shantilal Sampat lost his legs in a truck accident when he was nine-year old. He, then, climbs 700 steps of Mt. Abu and also climbed a mountain near Haji Ali in Mumbai two times. Later he decided to walk the distance from Pune to Mumbai with the help of crutches. He would walk from 8-00 am to 11-00 am and from 3-30 pm to 6-30 pm. He was accompained by Ashok Gori, who worked in Bank of Maharashtra and Gopal Bhanushali, an LIC agent of Peerless Company
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