Alberto Santos-Dumont, Sport Aviator And Olympic Hero

In 1905, the first ceremony to award Olympic Diplomas to relevant personalities linked to sports at the time took place at the Olympic Congress in Brussels. Theodore Roosevelt, later President of the United States; Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian joint inventor of the airplane and sporting aviator; Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer of the North Pole; and William H. Grenfell, w ell-know n educator in the United Kingdom and later Lord Desborough would receive the very first awards.

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