“My life changed the day I saw Adhemar on the track in Melbourne.' Via sbsportuguese
When Adhemar won the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics, Rosemary saw him for the first time. She was only 15 years old then but has kept his memory alive.
Above all, he won the hearts of the Brazilian people by winning two gold medals at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, where he surpassed the world record in the triple jump and then at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.The day Adhemar died, my husband and I decided we had to do something to celebrate his life, honour him and continue his sporting legacy here in Australia, where he won one of his Olympic medals.
“My husband and I, after hearing on the radio that Westfields Sports High School – with the most vulnerable students – needed money to provide these students with participation in sports events, we looked at each other and decided that there was an opportunity to do something in the name of Adhemar,” Ms Mula tells SBS Portuguese.
Coming to Australia was ‘goodbye forever’ to everything I knew and liked and everyone I loved. I was a very angry teenager”, she recalls. “I was with a group of kids cheering for Adhemar, shouting ‘da Silva, da Silva, da Silva,’ while he was competing on the athletics track. At the end of the competition, he came to us to thank us for the support and to advise us to study, listen to our parents, do our homework, and train hard. He told us all the good things,” recalls Ms Mula.She went about her life, studied, got married and made a career as a teacher. Life turned her away from athletics for a while. But not for good.
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