FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Al Oerter was destined to become an athlete, although he often wondered what he might have been if not for a chance meeting with a discus. "I could throw a baseball, a football or ...

Al Oerter, one of only two track and field competitors to win gold medals in the same event in four consecutive Olympic Games, died Monday of heart failure at a hospital near his home in Fort Myers, ...

Four-time Olympic gold medalist and former Kansas University athlete Al Oerter stands in front of some of his artwork at the ACT gallery in downtown Fort Myers, Fla. Oerter created much of his art by ...

Al Oerter, 71, a discus-throwing sensation who won gold medals in four consecutive Olympics, broke numerous world records and was one of track and field's biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s, died ...

The meaning of a guy like Al Oeter is a hard thing to explain to our children. Oerter, the discus-throwing legend, died this week. He won his gold medals during a time when the Olympic Games captured ...

FORT MEYERS, Fla., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Al Oerter, a world record holder in the discus and the first man to win four Olympic gold medals in an event, died Monday in Fort Myers, Fla., at 71. Oerter died of ...

Al Oerter, a discus thrower who became the first modern track and field athlete to win four consecutive Olympic titles in one event and who broke the world record six times and competed into his 60s, ...

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A lot of younger sports fans may not recall Al Oerter. Oerter was an Olympic discus thrower who won gold medals in four consecutive Olympics, in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 during an era when it seemed ...