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The Hungarian Olympics
Cort, David | November 24, 1956 issue

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One more ominous clue to Russian intentions, when the threat of "force" in Egypt was made in Moscow, was the fact that a Russian ship full of Russian athletes on the way to Melbourne, Victoria, had temporarily disappeared in the Indian Ocean in a fog of radio silence. The presence of Hungarians aboard the ship made a travesty of the Olympic claim that athletes have no politics. The modern Olympics expressed hope of enduring as long as the ancient games--at least 1,170 years, was looking sickly. The modern system' must permit nations to pick their own athletes through channels. The size of a country cannot determine the index of its athletic prowess.

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OLYMPICS; SPORTS tournaments; ATHLETIC recruitment; ATHLETES -- Political activity; RUSSIA (Federation); HUNGARY
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