shot put
 
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Shot-putters will heave their 16-pound spheres in the very temple in Olympia where the games were founded in 776 B. C.
After three throws, the top eight shot-putters move on for three final rounds.
While at Cambridge, he was selected as a shot-putter for the 1956 Olympics.

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