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Olympic gold medal winner at 84 | Olga Connolly

Olympic gold medal winner at 84 | Olga Connolly

Episode 2 Published 9 years, 6 months ago
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Olga Connolly is an Olympic gold medalist, who triumphed during the 1956 games in Melbourne. She threw the discus for her home country, Czechoslovakia. During the competition, she fell in love with, and later married, American athlete Harold Connolly – a controversial move at the height of the Cold War. Now 84, Olga has forged a career in fitness, working as a personal trainer at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in holistic fitness studies and training.

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