LAS VEGAS — Of all the accomplishments and honors Bill Toomey accumulated over his legendary track and field career, one still amazes him perhaps more than any other:
Toomey, an All-American track and field athlete for Colorado in the early 1960s, is still the only Buff to ever win an individual Olympic gold medal. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Toomey's gold medal performance in the decathlon in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
"When I heard that, I couldn't believe it," Toomey said recently from his California home. "I thought surely one of our skiers had won one.