but he opted not to play football professionally and continued at medical school. In 2010, Duke named him their most outstanding athlete of the 20th century. Olympics Sime was unable to make the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne due to a leg injury in his first attempt to ride a horse, but he competed in Rome four years later and won a silver medal when he was edged out by Armin Hary of Germany in a photo finish in the 100 meters. He anchored the U.S. to an apparent victory in the 4 × 100 m relay. The team finished first in a world record time of 39.4 s but was disqualified because at the first exchange from Budd to Norton, Norton started too early and the exchange happened outside the changeover box. During his career, he held world records at 100 yards, 220 yards, and the 220 yd low hurdles. During the Rome Olympics, Sime worked with the CIA trying to entice Soviet long-jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan to defect; the attempt failed. Ophthalmology Sime never played sports professionally. He graduated in the top 10% of his class at the Duke University School of Medicine. He then practiced medicine as an ophthalmologist in Florida, where he was a pioneer in intraocular lens transplants. Personal life Sime's eldest child, Sherrie, went to the University of Virginia, where she was the school's top-ranked singles tennis player. His son Scott was a state wrestling champion and all-state football player at Coral Gables Senior High School before going on to his father's alma mater at Duke, where he was a starting fullback. Sime's youngest child, Lisa, attended Stanford University, where she was a standout soccer player. There she met her future husband, Ed McCaffrey, a Stanford Cardinal football player who went on to win three Super Bowls and a Pro Bowl during a 13-year NFL career. Their first two sons, his grandsons Max McCaffrey and Christian McCaffrey, are an American football coach and a former NFL wide receiver, and a running back in the NFL, respectively. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Sime died at age 79 in 2016. References Maraniss, David (2008). Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World. New York, Simon & Schuster. . External links Appreciating Duke Legend Dave Sime at Duke University Athletics 1936 births 2016 deaths Fair Lawn High School alumni People from Fair Lawn, New Jersey Sportspeople from Paterson,