Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 4 | Olympic History
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2015
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My word we have come a long way since 1956.
I come from Melbourne and was only 5 at the time , so nice to see this . Cheers .. gus
gusthebroken2 Cool! You were very young. How was it to have the Games in your home town as a kid?
Thanks for commenting. :)
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Hi , How was it to have the O.G's in my home town ( was 3 million strong back then ), it did have a huge impact on us in Melbourne , and Australia as a whole. I for one became quite interested in participating in sports and our schools and college ( I went to a private Christian school and Col's/High schools ) held inter school competitions etc.
Long story short , I became a ice speed skater ( short track , first, and held the 3000 meter Australian record for 10 years running and high up in the other distances , as short track was not an Olympic sport then , I moved to the Netherlands at age 20 and skated Long track on ice , skated 3 world championships for Australia (1973, 75 & 76 ...ISU ) and qualified for 3 distances for the Winter Innsbruck Olympics , but due to circumstances beyond my control , did not get to compete .You probably know my fellow country man , "Colin Coates ".. ( we were the best two practising Australian skaters at the time ) .. He skated in 6 O.G's...starting in Grenoble France...and to my knowledge still has the Australian record for participating in so many Winter Olympic games. ( he actually competed in 7 of them , one unofficially ? , I'm not quite sure of that last one !) We both came from Melbourne. Our first skating medal in the winter games was in Squaw valley 1956? USA.... Colin Hickey , , 500 meters , bronze medal ...He also came from Melbourne , and was one of my mentors ....You see , it did have an impact and lead to sporting results even back then ..., Bradbury won the Gold in short track later ( first across the line in the 500 meters , as the rest fell !!! ... so the last became First , kind of the Turtle and the Hair story ) He came from Sydney , and I skated against his father ( short track ) We had no 400 meter track in Australia , some of us made our own on the lakes in the mountains to train on back then ... Well that's a bit of the story . My name is Gus Katinas ... cheers , and all the best ... gus
Christa Stubnick G.D.R.(100m) and Gisela Birkemeyer (80m hu) great seconds
Hi, @Olimpic. Yesterday at 22:00 died our maximal historical women sports star. In Chile we have only one woman olympic medal. Marlene Ahrens. She is the girl in the video (1:50 to 2:01). In case you have more images or videos of our girl and his participation in Melbourne, please share it. Chile will be happy.
RIP Marlene.
400 meter relay (at 12:40 on video) . . . . 2nd leg Leamon King of DELANO, CA. . . King was running better than Morrow during training in Australia before the Olympica (after the trials).
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I did not realize they wore diapers at the Olympics in 56!
The commentary is hilarious. I loved it... but, those poor women in non-stretchy silk shorts....eek.
ouch PC 06: lovely girls white :13 formidable black
Or maybe that just your modern racial lens. I mean the black girls was formidable - huge. not sure that body type has even been in vogue culturally.
Disgusting that the Olympic organizing committee cut short the US anthem. Athletes work their entire life for one glorious moment, and they were cheated
How did Melbourne manage to host the Olympics when at the time, thousands of Indigenous Australians were not allowed to vote?
Look up wikipedia at any olympics ever held and there is a controversy section for you so you can go and post on every olympic video on youtube about how shocked you are that x country hosted an olympics when x was happening, for virtue points.
Gotta love the sexist narrator...smh
It wasn't considered sexist in 1956. Women weren't offended like they are now.
Break From The Herd you mean women didn’t have the social power to stick up foe themselves like they do now.