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• Moments of Melbourne, Part 15 - Saturday, December 8th, 1956

  

  The last day of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was different from any other in history. Until the late 1970s, the last competition to be held before the closing... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 14 - Friday, December 7th, 1956

  

  While Dawn Fraser had become the female national sports icon of Australia, Murray Rose followed in her footsteps 24 hours later. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 13 - Thursday, December 6th

  

  Australia's athlete of the century, as she was later voted for, made Melbourne her Olympics at the evening of Dexember 6th, 1956. Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 12 - Wednesday, December 5th, 1956

  

  From today's point of view, Agnes Keleti was far too old a gymnast when she arrived in Melbourne for the 1956 Olympic Games. But these were other times, times i... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 11 - Tuesday, December 4th, 1956

  

  Of the145 gold medal winners at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games, Anatoli Bogdanov was probably the most mysterious. This was not due to his sporting achievement... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 10 - Monday, December 3rd, 1956

  

  Long before Greg Louganis became the most famous diver of all time, a young woman from California had achieved the very accomplishment as the legend. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 9 - Saturday, December 1st, 1956

  

  Whenever Hungarian athletes competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, it was a highly emotional affair. The bloody ending to the revolution in their home country... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 8 - Friday, November 30th, 1956

  

  A Harvard analyst named Gert Fredriksson the second most dominant Olympian of all time, second only to American jumper Ray C. Ewry, but still ahead of Carl Lewi... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 7 - Thursday, November 29th, 1956

  

  It took Christopher Brasher 8 minutes and 41.2 seconds to finish first in the Olympic 3000 meters steeplechase finals. But to get to the top of the podium, he... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 6 - Wednesday, November 28th, 1956

  

  Almost nobody notices, but Olympic history was made on this cloudy Wednesday, November 28th, 1956, at Oaklands Hunt Club in the north of Melbourne. Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 5 - Tuesday, November 27th, 1956

  

  Long before Pertti Karppinen and Mahe Drysdale, there was another dominator of the single sculls rowing scene. He came from Moscow and started his... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 4 - Monday, November 26th, 1956

  

  Blonde hair, a wild stride with highly lifted knees, and - most of all - a wide open mouth. These were the trademarks of the biggest female star of the Melbourn... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 3 - Saturday, November 24th, 1956

  

  The story of a hammer thrower winning Olympic gold with a crippled arm would have been enough to make tabloid headlines. But there was even more to the triumph... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Part 2 - Friday, Novermber 23rd, 1956

  

  It had been labelled as one of the great duels of the Games and so it was. On the early evening of Friday, November 23rd, Soviet runner Vladimir Kuts and Great... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2016 SPORTS

• Moments of Melbourne, Prologue - Wednesday, November 21st, 1956

  

  Starting tomorrow, I will look back on the Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics with daily highlights and news from 60 years ago. Today, I will begin with a prelude... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2016 SPORTS

• Mary Decker-Slaney - The Unfulfilled Dream, Part 4

  

  Some of the greatest athletes of the world have tried in vain to win an Olympic gold medal. We portray them in this series.Olympic gold has eluded many athletes... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2016 SPORTS

• Jefferson Perez - The One and Only, Part 4

  

  Some countries have won just one single gold medal in their Olympic history. We portray them in our series "The One and Only". One of them: Ecuador. Jefferson... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 SPORTS

• "Arms And Olympics" - Westbrook Pegler and the 1936 Winter Games

  

  While a new German book sheds new light on the infamous 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen these days, many people don't know today how critical... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2016 SPORTS

• Franziska Van Almsick - The Unfulfilled Dream, Part 3

  

  Some of the greatest athletes of the world have tried in vain to win an Olympic gold medal. We portray them in this series.The name of her homepage says it... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2016 SPORTS

• Anthony Nesty - The One and Only, Pt. 3

  

  Some countries have won just one single gold medal in their Olympic history. We portray them in our series "The One and Only". One of them: Suriname. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 SPORTS