(Recasts with memorial service) By Nick Carey and Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 10 (Reuters) - Religious and political leaders joined celebrities, sports stars and tens of thousands of ordinary people on Friday in bidding farewell to Muhammad Ali, the boxing champion who jolted America with his showmanship and won worldwide admiration as a man of conviction. Ali, a once-controversial convert to Islam who lost three prime years of his boxing career for refusing U.S. military service during the Vietnam War, died a week ago at age 74 as one of the most respected men in the United States. "What does it say of a man, any man, that he can go from being viewed as one of his country's most polarizing figures to arguably its most beloved?" sportscaster Bryant Gumbel told an interfaith memorial service with 15,000 people in a sports arena in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
Friday, 10 June 2016
Muhammad Ali feted by the famous and fans in final farewell (Reuters)
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