Discus great Al Oerter, who won gold medals in four straight Olympics and became one of track and fields biggest stars in the 1950s and '60s, died Monday. He was 71. Oerter died at a hospital near his ...

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, the discus thrower who won consecutive gold medals in four straight Olympic Games from 1956 to 1968, has died of heart failure. After track, he began a career as an abstract painter. He was ...

FORT MYERS, FLA. — Al Oerter, the discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics to become one of track and field’s biggest stars in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday of heart failure. He ...

Fortune Gordien. "Rink" Babka. Ludvik Danek. Jay Silvester. Between 1956 and 1968, they were supposed to win discus gold medals in the Olympics. Al Oerter overcame all of them. Perhaps more impressive ...

Even though he has been dead for nearly a decade, the honors keep coming for Al Oerter, the Village of New Hyde Park’s legendary Olympiad. Recently, Oerter was inducted posthumously into the Nassau ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Al Oerter is the greatest discus thrower in Olympic history. There can be no debate about that. Oerter — a native of Astoria, New York — and Carl Lewis are the only Olympic track ...

Sure, Al Oerter isn’t a name you’ve heard often and it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but the Astoria, New York native was one of the most dominant athletes in Olympic history. Oerter owned the ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Al Oerter, the discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics to become one of track and fields biggest stars in the 1950s and '60s, died Monday. He was 71. Oerter died ...

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 a golf ball a ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Al Oerter, the discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics, has died. He was 71. Oerter, a native of New Hyde Park on Long Island, was brought to a hospital, where he ...