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 * Wilma Rudolph**

Wilma Rudolph Came down with Polio (a disease that can mess with your body functions). It had messed with her left leg. She wanted to walk very bad. She would have never got to get her wish, if it wasn't for her mother's support. Wilma Rudolph exemplified perseverence by overcoming her rough childhood, challenges of staying in school due to her left leg, also her physical needs.

Wilma Rudolph overcame her rough childhood: At the age of four, Wilma was sick with polio, and it had affected her left leg.If she wanted to go to the doctor she would have to travel over a mile by bus twice a week to get to the hospital in Nashvile,Tennessee because her family didn't have a way to get there by car. After a while she felt that one day if she tried hard enough she would be able to walk, and run perfectly. So she asked for therapy and got it twice a week.

Wilma Rudolph overcame the challenges of staying in school: When she started school, all local schools said she was not going to be able to go to their schools, because she could not walk and it would not be fair if she got out of her classes and the other kids couldn't. They said this because when she would walk it would be for a short distance, because she would have to only use her good leg and it got tierd after a while. Due to this she would exercise extra hard. One day when she went to the doctors they felt that she was ready to get a heavy steal brace that would help to support her leg. After getting used to the brace she attended a local school. It wasn't like she had ever imagined, but she was thankful.

Wilma Rudolph overcame her physical needs: When Wilma had turned twleve she got to take off her leg brace. After a while she started to do sports. She was playing in basketball, and track, but had to be very carefull because she was still geting used to not wearing the brace. When she got in high school, she didn't have to go get therapy anymore. She was doing sports so good that a caoch from TSU(a college) asked her to join their team and so she accepted the scholarship. In 1956 in Melbourne,Australia she went to the olympic. She won a bronze medal.

By not listening to what others had said, she got to accomplish her wish after a harsh past, challenges of staying in school, and needs for her leg with polio which had paralyzed it..Also in 1960, she had another olympic competition, but this one was aginst the best gold medalist ever. Her name is Jutta Heine. at the end of the olympics, Willma Rudolph had won 3 gold medals in a row.

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Humphrey, S. (2005). //Dare to dream!25 extrodinary lives//. (pp. 81-84). newYork: Prometheus Books

Getty. (Photographer). (n.d.). //Wilma rudolph//. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=imh&ANimh212206&site=srck5-live