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Three Americans who hold a total of seven Olympic gold medals chat at a sidewalk café in Rome on Sept. 8, 1960. At left is Jesse Owens, who won four medals in the 1936 Olympic track and field events at Berlin. Second from right is Edward Eagan, former chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, who won boxing at Antwerp in 1920 and was on first place bobsled team at Lake Placid, New York in 1932. At right is world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson, who won medal in the ring at Helsinki in 1952. Man at rear is unidentified. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Jim Pringle)