Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
September
13, 2007
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Helsinki, Finland,
July, 1952: Tourist Donna Stone leaves no doubt
that she's a fan of Bob Mathias as she poses with the American decathlon star
at the Kapyla Olympic Village. It was a very good year for Mathias, who had
already played football for Stanford in the Rose Bowl in January; at Helsinki,
he won the gold medal in his specialty by a margin of 912 points to defend the
Olympic title he won in 1948