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de voir les Jeux se d&eacute;rouler dans la          Ville &eacute;ternelle. Rome devait dailleurs les organiser en&nbsp;1908,          mais l&eacute;ruption du V&eacute;suve avait forc&eacute; lItalie &agrave;          se d&eacute;sister. Ce nest que 52&nbsp;ans plus tard que Rome obtient          a nouveau sa chance.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">Les Jeux attirent pour          la premi&egrave;re fois plus de 5000&nbsp;concurrents et sont retransmis          &agrave; la t&eacute;l&eacute;vision. Le rituel olympique ne cesse d&eacute;voluer.          Les m&eacute;dailles, qui &eacute;taient remises dans un &eacute;crin,          sont maintenant munies dun collier pour les passer au cou des athl&egrave;tes.          Avec la d&eacute;colonisation, les pays africains font leur entr&eacute;e          dans le mouvement olympique. Mais lAfrique du Sud en est bannie apr&egrave;s&nbsp;1960,          jusqu&agrave; labolition de lapartheid.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">Cest sous la chaleur          &eacute;crasante de l&eacute;t&eacute; romain que les comp&eacute;titions          se d&eacute;roulent. Les Jeux sont domin&eacute;s par lUnion sovi&eacute;tique,          suivie des &Eacute;tats-Unis. Le Canada ne r&eacute;colte quune seule          m&eacute;daille, largent en aviron, gr&acirc;ce &agrave; l&eacute;quipe          de huit rameurs en pointe avec barreur.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">En athl&eacute;tisme,          lAm&eacute;ricaine Wilma Rudolph remporte lor trois fois, au 100&nbsp;m,          au&nbsp;200&nbsp;m et au relais 4&nbsp;X&nbsp;100&nbsp;m. Ses exploits          sont dautant plus remarquables que, durant son enfance, celle quon surnomme          la &laquo;&nbsp;gazelle noire&nbsp;&raquo; a souffert de poliomy&eacute;lite.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">Cest &agrave; Rome que          Muhammad Ali fait ses d&eacute;buts, avec une m&eacute;daille dor dans          la cat&eacute;gorie des mi-lourds. Le boxeur na alors que 18&nbsp;ans          et sappelle Cassius Clay. Il changera de nom apr&egrave;s sa conversion          &agrave; lislam et deviendra lun des plus grands champions de lhistoire          de la boxe.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">Toutefois, le h&eacute;ros          incontest&eacute; de ces Jeux est Abebe Bikila, qui donne &agrave; lAfrique          noire sa premi&egrave;re m&eacute;daille dor. Pieds nus, ce soldat de          la Garde imp&eacute;riale &eacute;thiopienne remporte le marathon, qui          se tient &agrave; la tomb&eacute;e de la nuit dans les vestiges de la          Rome antique.</font></p>       <p><font face="Arial, Geneva, sans-serif" size="2">Enfin, le dopage retient          lattention du public avec la mort dun cycliste danois, Knut Jensen,          qui seffondre en pleine course. 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