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my strength to thy will, with love"

Wilma was the seventeenth child of poor Negro domestic help. Her left leg has suffered a form of paralysis. Specialists told her mother that years of therapeutic massage might restore the use of the leg. For the next two years, Mrs. Rudolph, on her weekly day off, made a 90 mile round trip to the clinic. The other Six days, after arriving from work and preparing the family’s supper, she carefully massaged the wasted small leg until long after Wilma had fallen asleep.

After two years of such painstaking effort, Wilma could manage to hop for short distances.  Then she graduated to braces and playing basketball. Soon she could walk without her braces…and then she started running. “Skeeter”, as she was called, proved to be the sensation than discovered by the Tennessee State University coach, Edward temple. Along with nine other girls, she was chosen to train with Temple’s crack team, the Tigerbelles. Pairing each girl with one of his Tigerbelles, Temple ordered 50 yard sprints. Wilma did worse than most. The rigorous training almost did her in mother saying “Never give up.”  

She tried harder and finally she got her reward – she made the team. Throughout the high school summers, Wilma drilled in the minute details of the Tigerbelles style. Again and again should would race 100 yards, walk back and race again. Soon, it became instinctive to take off and run so fast that she was almost floating and then strain forward to touch the finish line. She soon ranked among the four fastest Tigerbelles. She won many races. And with a little more effort, she raced to glory at the Olympics. 

In the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Wilma Glodean Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games. A track and field champion, she elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.

The powerful sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tornado," the fastest woman on earth. The Italians nicknamed her La Gazzella Negra ("The Black Gazelle"); to the French she was La Perle Noire ("The Black Pearl"). She is one of the most famous Tennessee State University Tigerbelles, the name of the TSU women's track and field program.

Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL). was the first Indian to be awarded the Dean’s Medal from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in recognition of his leadership in founding and building RIL into India’s largest and mostly profitable company. In his speech, he said, “Success is the outcome of the joint efforts, common dreams and sincere dedication.”

Nothing worthwhile was ever achieved without an effort and a struggle.