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Document 1 WHEN A GIANT ROAMED THE EARTH. Muhammad Ali was a colossus of sports and culture. Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, died in Phoenix on June 3 at age 74 of respiratory illness and complications related to Parkinson's disease. Some kings wear crowns. The Greatest simply wore a heavyweight
Document 1 WHEN A GIANT ROAMED THE EARTH. Muhammad Ali was a colossus of sports and culture. Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, died in Phoenix on June 3 at age 74 of respiratory illness and complications related to Parkinson's disease. Some kings wear crowns. The Greatest simply wore a heavyweight championship belt. Few athletes have been as dominant in their chosen sport: Ali was a three-time 5 heavyweight champ whose career spanned three decades. […] Boxing was his occupation, but Ali was a colossus of culture. He was by far the most charismatic athlete of the 20th century […]. He was undaunted1 by the stature of his opponents or by the divisive racial years during which he entered his prime. At a time when leaders of the civil rights movement were marching peacefully, locking 10 arms2 and singing "We Shall Overcome”, Ali was standing defiantly over the prone figures of boxers he’d dispatched and unapologetically proclaiming, “I am the Greatest of all time!” He was introduced to America during those 1960 Summer Olympics, […] a time when athletic vainglory was intensely frowned upon3, particularly if it emanated from a 15 "Negro" athlete. Ali repeatedly declared that he was pretty - and he was. He said he was gonna "whup"4 whomever he fought – he did. As early as 1964, before his first heavyweight title bout, versus Sonny Liston, he proclaimed himself "the Greatest.” And he was. […] But Ali's final opponent was Parkinson's. He was diagnosed in 1984, and it slowly 20 and cruelly robbed him of his physical abilities and later his ability to speak. In these last 32 years, though, Ali became, as The New York Times called him a "secular saint," an international ambassador of good will. […] Ali's legacy transcends every sport, every geopolitical border and every language. He was a creature immune to self-doubt and a fighter who seemed to embrace or at 25 least enthrall5, every person he met. Immediately after knocking out Liston in February of 1964 to win his first heavyweight title, Ali stepped to a microphone in the ring and repeatedly declared, "l shook up the world!" That he did. And a world that needed shaking is in his debt. by John WALTERS, Newsweek, June 17, 2016 1 not afraid 2 joining arms 3 disapproved of 4 to beat 5 to make someone very interested 17AN2TEPO1 2/6 Document 2 Looking back