Ralph Boston
Ralph Boston
Ralph Harold Bostonis a retired American track athlete. An all around competitor, he is best remembered for the long jump, in which he was the first person to break the 27 feetbarrier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLong Jumper
Date of Birth9 May 1939
CityLaurel, MS
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete people promise run
Without the Khrushchevs or the Nixons or the Reagans or those people you know, let us run it and I promise you we'll have a much better world.
dog years pet
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
team athlete winning
So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.