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NBC will air a 45-minute tribute Sunday to five American Olympians who won gold medals at the 1960 Rome Games.
Produced by Lisa Lax, the documentary will focus on Muhammad Ali, Wilma Rudolph, Rafer Johnson, Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, using an anecdotal format to portray their lives before and up to the Rome Games.
“We were trying to focus on pulling together a few American athletes born in and around the South. And as we were going through all the Olympiads, we came across these five from Rome,” said Lax, NBC Sports senior producer and head of the network’s features division in Atlanta.
“One of the reasons we focused on Rome was because it was kind of the last totally pure games, it was kind of a time of innocence,” she said.
