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Oct 23, 2026
Rob McCoyGUEST
And it was through that that I met a man named Mike Troy, who was a Navy SEAL, two tours of Vietnam, and he was the hardest man I ever worked for.
Rob McCoyGUEST
Broke his own world record eight times, gold medal winner in the 1960 Olympics.
Rob McCoyGUEST
Through my mom and dad, I met Captain James Stark, a POW in Vietnam, who was, he had a big scar on his back, and we'd always run on the beach, and I always saw that scar, and that's where they hung him on a meat hook in the Hanoi Hilton when he was a prisoner of war.
Rob McCoyGUEST
Admiral James Stockdale lived in our town.
Rich EisenHOST
Um, we've got, uh, in our green room, uh, the actor Jaalen Best.
Rich EisenHOST
Now, um, watching the Knicks and the Sixers last night, I saw a commercial for The Greatest, which is a new eight-episode series on, uh, Cassius Clay's rise from the 1960 Olympics to the 1964 worlds championship against Sonny Liston.
Rich EisenHOST
Uh, he plays m- the, uh, the great Cassius Clay.
Chris BrockmanPANELIST
Mm.
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speaker_5NARRATOR
The Rich Eisen Show podcast.
Rich EisenHOST
The Greatest is available for streaming exclusively on Prime Video November 4th.
Rich EisenHOST
It's about the rise to prominence, uh, of one Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali from the 1960 Olympics to the '64 title match with Sonny Liston.
Rich EisenHOST
And the man who plays the greatest, Jaalen Best, is here on the program.
Gary NullHOST
Her family took turns massaging her legs every day, and her mother drove 50 miles each way, week after week, for treatment.
Gary NullHOST
By the age of 12, she had thrown the brace away, and at the 1960 Rome Olympics, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single game, and the press called her the fastest woman in the world.
Gary NullHOST
Everyone around her had been told what she couldn't do.
Gary NullHOST
She simply refused to believe it.
Rob DraperHOST
And France have had this national strategy, which they start planning it, don't they, in the 70s and 80s, but it is finally built by 88 and open.
Jonathan WilsonHOST
Well, I mean, it's a complicated and perhaps not particularly interesting story, but basically the 1960 Olympics, I think it is, goes so badly for them that they institute this plan for technical centres for all Olympic sports or all major Olympic sports.
Jonathan WilsonHOST
And it takes time for them to come into being.
Jonathan WilsonHOST
And so I think you have a series of regional centres.
JoshHOST
He became the first ever Greco-Roman world champion to come out of the Ukraine.
JoshHOST
He backed that up with a world silver 1958, four USSR national titles, and a fifth place finish at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
JoshHOST
But here's the part I actually think matters more long-term.
JoshHOST
When Gomarnik's competitive career wound down, he didn't leave the sport.
Cindy BurnettHOST
But also they do such a great job of placing this in the history of both the Walt Disney Company, but also what's happening in the country in terms of the environmental movement and other things.
Cindy BurnettHOST
Like I had no idea that Walt was the one that kind of launched the large pageantry that we now have for Winter Olympics ceremonies opening because he was tasked with creating it for the 1960 Olympics.
Cindy BurnettHOST
So that then kind of launched a whole new path of these very elaborate opening ceremonies.
Cindy BurnettHOST
I did not know that.
Steve CarneyHOST
Question number four.
Steve CarneyHOST
Which famous Australian middle distance runner won the 1500 metre gold medal event at the 1960 Rome Olympics and famously went undefeated in the 1500 metre and mile throughout his career?
Nav SinghAUDIENCE
Holy moly.
Nav SinghAUDIENCE
Um...
Rob GilbertHOST
And let's talk about the infrastructure because, you know, I spent quite a lot of time at the, well, close to if not one of the oldest sporting stadiums in the world, in Rome, which is a tourist attraction 2,000 years since it was built.
Rob GilbertHOST
And as much as the Stadio Olimpico was an incredible experience for a stadium that hosted the 1960 Olympics versus the MCG, which hosted the 1956 Olympics, you can see at the G, it has grown and changed and evolved as a building, It appeared to me, and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong, that the stadio, it's not crumbling by any sense.
Rob GilbertHOST
It's a well-maintained building.
Rob GilbertHOST
But surely the Eternal City deserves a sparkling new home, which is not only a sign of regeneration for the game in Rome itself, but Italy more broadly.
Shahan PetrossianHOST
And they would reach the final of the Euros in 1960 and 1968.
Shahan PetrossianHOST
They also won the 1960 Olympics.
Shahan PetrossianHOST
While clubs like Partizan Belgrade reached the 1966 Champions Cup final and Dinamo Zagreb won the Fairs Cup in 1967.
Shahan PetrossianHOST
Were these the fruits of this new way of thinking and managing?
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speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Say, here's a personal invitation for all of you to be Atlantic Television guests for the 1960 Olympics.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The exciting and colorful games got underway today.
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