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theage.com.au on 2021-11-21 04:11

From the Archives, 1956: Melbourne’s Olympic triumph

In two hours of supreme spectacle and sunlight, an MCG crowd of 103,000 heard the Duke of Edinburgh declare the Games open. The first Olympic Games ...

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