Synopsis Think you know all there is to know about Wilma Rudolph? Well, did you know that: She earned an Olympic medal for the 400-meter relay while still in high school? She once scored 49 points in a high school basketball game? Her face has appeared on a U.S. postage stamp? Early...
Early in her life, doctors told Wilma Rudolph she would never walk. She had a disease called polio, which crippled her leg. But Wilma proved the doctors wrong. Not only did she walk, she also ran - fast By the time she was 16, she had an Olympic bronze medal. This is her story...
A biography of the woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.