Summer Olympic Games the strict quarantine laws of Australia, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm. At the 1960 Rome Games a young light-heavyweight boxer named Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, arrived on the scene. Ali would later throw his gold medal away in disgust after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky. He was awarded a new medal 36 years later at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Other performers of note in 1960 included Wilma Rudolph, a gold medallist in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 4 × 100 meters relay events. The
Service Medal in Gold at left and a 4 millimetres wide yellow edge at right. Conferment of the Service Medal in Gold was discontinued upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003. Service Medal in Gold The Service Medal in Gold was instituted by the President of the Republic of South Africa in April 1996. It was awarded to veteran cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress, for thirty years exemplary service. Umkhonto we Sizwe, abbreviated as MK, "Spear of the Nation" in [isiXhosa language|Xhosa]], was the para-military wing of the African National