ATLANTA — At halftime of Saturday night's U.S.-Yugoslavia men's basketball game, Muhammad Ali was presented a replica of the gold medal he won in boxing at the 1960 Rome Olympics, which he had either lost or thrown away, depending on whom you believe.
The story goes that a young Cassius Clay, angry at indignities such as being refused service at a restaurant in Louisville, Ky., walked to the middle of a bridge and threw his medal into the Ohio River. Ali has since claimed to have fabricated this tale. The medal was supposedly misplaced.
