I was in the house on my own in 1960, nine years old I was, telly on, watching him win his gold.   A little while later, he couldn't be served in a restaurant because he was a negro. This wonderful human being played a massive part in dragging the US out of the Stone Age (still some way to go), he showed how threadbare the alleged morality of the Vietnam war was, and, eventually, he showed how we can all be brothers and sisters regardless of colour and creed. Not bad for a black lad from a racist town. I'm not going to hear any criticism or demurring right now. Not the time, and certainly not from anyone who is nowhere near as good a human being as he was.