The world mourns the death of Muhammad Ali today, a man that hyperbole doesn’t do enough to explain the impact he left.
In case you forgot the details, the Associated Press’ Tim Dahlberg did one of the best jobs summing up — if that’s possible — Ali’s life both as a boxer and as an American icon.
After is boxing career had ended, Ali was still in the spotlight, raising awareness for Parkinson’s disease and most memorably, lighting the Olympic torch in Atlanta in 1996.
Ali often graced sporting events in his retirement, but it wasn’t just the bigger ones he stopped by.