World Stage: An Olympic Introduction to the Greatest of All Time
This is an image of the front of a ticket to the Opening Ceremony of the Rome Olympic Games held on Thursday, August 25, 1960, which features an image of the statue of Marcus Aurelius, Emporer of Rome from 161-180 A.D., and an image of the Capitoline tower. Tickets from the 1960 games were printed on filigrained paper manufactured specifically for the Rome Olympics.
This ticket was donated to the Muhammad Ali Center by John Dyrud in 2011.
Opening Ceremony Ticket
Near the end of the opening ceremony, after the entrance of the Olympic flag, a proclamation from the Italian President, and the singing of the Olympic anthem, the torch was carried into the stadium. It was carried by Giancarlo Peris, an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, the last torchbearer of 1,529. The torch journeyed through Greece and Italy, and across the Ionian Sea, to emphasize and highlight the history and correlation between the ancient and modern Olympic games.
