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Gainesville,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ga: Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went on to play pro football and become a motivational speaker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], has died, his family said. He was 78.
Linda Rusch,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Campbell's partner of 13 years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Campbelk died Friday at his home in Gainesville, about 55 miles northwest of Atlanta. She said he had been fighting prostate cancer for a decade.
"He was extremely disciplined," Rusch told The Associated Press on Saturday. "He had huge passion. For you to win the gold you have to be so self-motivated and so self-disciplined. And you have to have a very strong mind."
"He literally had to train himself to have this incredible mind,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to be such a positive thinker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she added. The Americans swept the decathlon that year. Four years later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Campbell won gold at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
"World record holder Rafer Johnson was hampered by injury, but even in full health he probably couldn't have beaten Milt Campbell in Melbourne,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," according to The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics by David Wallechinsky.
Campbell had hoped to qualify for the Olympic team as a hurdler, but he finished fourth during tryouts.
"I was stunned," Campbell said in the book. "But then God seemed to reach into my heart and tell me he didn't want me to compete in the hurdles, but in the decathlon."
The 6-foot-3, 217-pound Campbell, who attended Indiana University,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was drafted in 1957 by the Cleveland Browns, where he played one season in the same backfield as Jim Brown. Campbell then played for various teams in the Canadian Football League until his football career in 1964.
Campbell was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1999 and was honored this year by the International Swimming Hall of Fame,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. "He needed to beat his brother."
Rusch said Campbell became a motivational speaker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and maintained a positive outlook despite the loss of a son to cancer and as he himself fought the disease. In addition to Rusch, he is survived by three grown children.
"Someone would say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'How are you feeling?' He'd say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Great,'" Rusch said. "He was such a fighter. And with this cancer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he tried to fight it until the end. For his wife. For his family. And for his friends."
Rusch said Campbell was a whirlwind of activity - playing tennis as well as riding bikes, horses and motorcycles - until cancer treatment began slowing him down. She said the past year was a special one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with him being honored by the New Jersey and the International Swimming halls as well as being invited to attend the Olympic trials in Oregon.
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