Writers Rasselas Lakew, Davey Frankel, Mikael Awake
The Athlete
2009
· ⭐ 6.2 · Votes: 8
Running the streets of Rome in 1960 an unknown barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon.