1960 Vintage Rome Summer Olympics Boxing Postcard First Day Cover Cassius Clay1960 postcard from the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, featuring artwork of a boxing event Postcard marks closing of these Olympics 18 year old Cassius Clay, later Muhammad Ali, won the Gold Medal for the United States in the Light Heavyweight division Ali later claimed to have thrown his medal in the Ohio River out of anger at segregation in the United States when he returned home. He was given a replacement medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in