Mar 7, 2017
Olympic gold medalist inspires as an octogenarian fitness trainer
About this episode
Olga Connolly was an Olympic gold medalist who triumphed during the 1956 games in Melbourne. She threw the discus for her home country, Czechoslovakia. During the competition, she fell in love with, and later married, American athlete Harold Connolly – a controversial move at the height of the Cold War.
When spoke to Olga she was 84. She had forged a career in fitness, working as a personal trainer at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in holistic fitness studies and training and was a remarkably inspiring woman.
She passed away at the age of 91 in 2024.
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