A Competition Brings Determination

[DoubleRBar]

Happy birthday today (Saturday) to two Olympic champions with both athletes winning Olympic medals at the same Games.

The older of the two champions was 14 years old when the younger person was born.

These athletes were born in different countries and if you flew from the older person's birthplace to the younger athlete's birth site, you would travel approximately 5,346 miles (8,605 km).

You might know that the distance from the younger individual's birthplace to the older athlete's birth site is just about the same as mentioned in the previous sentence.

Both athletes won Olympic medals at the same Olympic Games and not in the hurdles.

Five months after Neil A. Armstrong stepped on our moon, one of our birthday people died at the age of 52.

A one-two finish by two different countries at the Olympics happened when our birthday athletes won Olympic gold.

Our birthday people competed in a total of five Olympics.

Today (Saturday) is a celebration of a total of 190 combined years for these two individuals.

One of our birthday athletes had polio at the age of nine and had a mother who was a registered nurse.

This person with polio turns 88 today, but no longer suffers from polio.

I bet you can name our birthday athletes for this first Saturday of January and remember that one of these people uses a nickname.

Please name these champions.

[tandfman]

These athletes were born in different countries and if you flew from the older person's birthplace to the younger athlete's birth site, you would travel approximately 5,346 miles (8,605 km).

You might know that the distance from the younger individual's birthplace to the older athlete's birth site is just about the same as mentioned in the previous sentence.

That's a very odd clue. Is there a difference between a birthplace and a birth site? If not, how could the distance from A to B not be "about the same" as the distance from B to A?

[lonewolf]

I wondered abut that too....

[DoubleRBar]

Birth site and birthplace are the same. It doesn't matter which direction you measure, of course the distance would be the same. I guess it was more of a joke than a clue. I won't repeat that one.

[Olli]

Consolini?

[LopenUupunut]

And Walter "Buddy" Davis.

[Olli]

One-two Finnish, it seems.

[DoubleRBar]

Happy birthday today to Buddy Davis (88) winner of the men's high jump in Helsinki (1952). Very good, LopenUupunut. Today marks 102 years since the birth of Adolfo Consolini (winner of the 1948 men's discus). You got him, Olli. Adolfo Consolini and Giuseppe Tosi went 1-2 for Italy in the London Olympic discus. Walt "Buddy" Davis and Ken Wiesner went 1-2 for the U.S. in the 1952 Olympic high jump. Consolini took the silver medal in Helsinki (1952). Davis competed in only one Olympic Games.