When Agnes Keleti was 19, she was an Olympic favorite in gymnastics. But after the outbreak of World War II, the 1940 and 1944 Games were canceled. She was kicked out of her athletics club for being Jewish and had to go into hiding in the Hungarian countryside.
But Keleti survived. She went on to win 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics and was the most awarded athlete in the 1956 Summer Games. Now, at 100 years old, she is the oldest living Olympic champion, and her story headlines the International Olympic Committee’s latest spot in the “Stronger Together” campaign promoting the imminent Tokyo Olympics.