Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
At the 1960 Rome Olympics, a barefooted African athlete whose name nobody knew astounded the world by winning the marathon and that too in a record time of 2 hours and 15 minutes. With that, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia became the first black African to win a track-and-field gold medal.
He was a member of the palace bodyguard of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. In 1964, at Tokyo, Bikila, this time wearing shoes, won the gold again, with a margin of more than four minutes. He relaxed a little before the others entered the stadium, lying on his back in the infield and bicycling his legs! He even did a smiling lap of honour. Few among the spectators knew that he'd had an appendix operation just five weeks earlier.
He could not participate in the 1968 Olympics due to a leg injury. The following year he was involved in a near-fatal car crash that left him wheelchair-bound. He died four years later.
last updated on: 5/14/2021
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.