On Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, the world will say goodbye for the last time to Muhammad Ali, the boxing champion who died on Saturday at the age of 74. The eulogy will be delivered by former US president Bill Clinton. "He was a citizen of the world and the world mourns his passing," said the family spokesman.
The coffin will be carried in procession along the road that bears Ali's name in the city where he was born. And he will cross the neighborhood where he grew up, thus retracing the route that had seen him paraded as a very young boy, then still Cassius Clay, on his return from the 1960 Olympics with the boxing gold medal won in Rome. The procession will end at Cave Hill Cemetery for a private family ceremony.
