Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali will, three years after he passed, get an airport named after him.
His hometown, Louisville, will be naming the Louisville International Airport after Ali.
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CNN reports that the decision was made after a vote on a recommendation by a working group that’s been studying the renaming for over a year.
The airport will be known as the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Jim Welch, chairman of the Airport Authority Board, said:
This tells the world how proud we are to associate ‘The Greatest’ with not only our great city, but our great airport.