Additionally, after Cuba dominated in boxing during the 2004 Athens Games, none of Cubas five boxing champs returned for the 2008 Games three defected, and a fourth was removed from the team after attempting to flee. 1951, P. 6, BTL, 3.1.9. 65 In comparison, more than 10 per cent of the Hungarians who left the nation after 1956 returned in 1957. Two Books on Hungary's Recent Past, The Hungarian Historical Review, trans. When the games finished, Moraru decided that he liked the San Diego sun. More than 100 athletes may have defected at the Munich games in 1972, according to the Associated Press, though little is known about them and the exact number is still disputed. Pteri, Gyrgy, External Politics-Internal Rivalries: Social Science Scholarship and Political Change in Communist Hungary, East Central Europe, 44 (2017), 30939, 313CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. The steeplechaser said he felt conditions at home seemed to be getting worse, according to the news outlet. Midfielder Yordany lvarez played with the Austin Aztex, Orlando City and Real Salt Lake, according to his Major League Soccer profile. One of those kids turned out to be Mark Spitz. 83 See especially Llewellyn and Gleaves, Rise and Fall. Belarus Olympic defector Tsimanouskaya auctions medal on eBay When laws mandating seat-belt use passed in the U.S., he'd sometimes drive a while before buckling up as a kind of protest: "The government was telling me what to do." "I stepped on the feet of senators' wives," he said, "but I left my heart in San Francisco." While sport leaders recognised the need to soften their policies towards athletes, athletes learned that socialist Hungary, and not the capitalist West, oftentimes offered them the best opportunities for their sport career and desired lifestyle. "PCC has a gorgeous pool," he says, "and I have the key. That's when SI's parent, Time Inc., needed a place in Alexandria, Va., to house its Time-Life Books unit, and the company rented office space from one of the people it had brought to the U.S. Jozsef Sakovics and Lidia Domolky Sakovics, Fencing. Some eventually returned home, according to Sports Illustrated, even donning the Hungarian uniform again at the Olympics. hasContentIssue true, Copyright Cambridge University Press 2019. This article examines three case studies between 1951 and 1960 to illustrate how the 1956 Revolution and mass defection of Hungarian Olympic athletes following the Melbourne Games impacted the relations between Hungarian sport leaders and athletes. : Patrons, Clients, Brokers and Unofficial Networks in the Stalinist Music World, Russias Economy of Favors: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange, A kz-kezet mos: A szocialista sszekttetsek a Kdr-korszakban, Palette: I. j- s Jelentkortrtni Tudomnyos Dikkonferencia, Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games, The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field, Lszl Tbori, A Biography: The Legendary Story of the Great Hungarian Runner, Tracksuit Traitors: Eastern German Top Athletes on the Run, Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 19571990, Gyarmati sors, avagy egy bal kz trtnete, Srni csak a gyztesnek szabad! ShaCarri Richardson missed the Olympics. Neither the SI archives, Hungarian sports officials nor fellow 1956 Olympians could shed light on what became of these two athletes. With no health insurance, he accepted the Hungarian sports ministry's offer of medical care, an apartment and a pension to return to Budapest, where he died in 2002. Although there are numerous factors that can influence the development of successful athletes, some of the important possible factors that relate to the parents' socio-economic and cultural background include the athletes' preconditions (coaching resources, training, facilities and finances) and their ability to acquire the necessary psycho-social competencies (sport knowledge and connections). Gyrgy Pteri demonstrates how similar aims motivated Hungarian state organs and cultural figures in the creation of the nation's pavilion at the 1958 Expo in Brussels. Magyar Olimpiai Bizottsg. George Domolky, for his part, never looked back after getting a taste of the West: He joined the SI tour, then fenced at Stanford and got his MBA from Cal. Now 76, he works for the Munkacsy Foundation, a cultural institute in Budapest. An . Some of them returned home, where they were welcomed back and some even represented Hungary in later Olympics. Keresztes, do you want to pay cash this time, or just leave your watch here as you used to? For some athletes, the Olympics arent just a competition: theyre a chance to escape oppression. They had both tasted glory -- she as a sprint freestyler at two Olympics; he as a reserve on the water polo team in Melbourne -- but there wasn't much glitter to their first jobs in the U.S., where she worked in a bank in Beverly Hills and modeled on the side, and he served a Los Angeles architect as a draftsman. Laszlo Magyar, Swimming; Olga Gyarmaty Track and Field. The canoeist was. He is now deceased. Afghanistans flag bearer, boxer Jawid Aman Mukhamad, had the same problem: Afghan officials accused him of being a communist (Mukhamad had trained in Russia). . "When returning to his favorite nightclub after 50 years, the old bartender asked him, 'Mr. 54 A forradalom vrtaninak szellemben, Magyar Npsport, 1 Nov. 1956, 1. When parents at the Bay Area club heard Zador had been an Olympian, they asked him to teach their children to swim. Will of the People (album) - Wikiwand Hungarian Defectors Story: 1956 Summer Olympics: Closeup portrait of Hungary gymnast Andrea Bodo during photo shoot in private home. He died in April 2011 in Budapest at age 87. Only 16, she skipped the SI tour and lived in Seattle with the family of teenage U.S. swimmer Nancy Ramey. He returned after learning he'd be spared reprisals, and he became a decorated professor of phys ed and sports science. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at Rome in 1960 . Heres a look at some other Olympic defections. I worked. 2015, Budapest, Hungary. 96 Gyarmati's Story, Sports Illustrated. "The story he told me on our last visit sounded true," says former teammate Eugene Hamori, who saw Keresztes shortly before his death. The plan worked. Hungarian athletes have won a total of 475 medals, with fencing as the top medal-producing sport. Tsimanouskaya says Belarusian Olympic authorities tried to force her to fly back to Belarus after she criticized the countrys Olympic officials. Phone +36 1 386 8000. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. Explained: Why do athletes go 'missing' from international - MSN Also taking part in track chatter were four-time Olympic long. The United States finished the Tokyo Olympics with 113 total medals, including 39 gold. Will of the People ialah album studio kesembilan oleh kumpulan rock Inggeris Muse, dikeluarkan pada 26 Ogos 2022 melalui Warner Records dan Helium-3. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. "Without the Revolution, I wouldn't be here," Schmid-Shapiro says. And I was at the beginning of my career and so eager for success. Title Hungarian Olympic Committee. . "And because George had gotten out, that really pushed us to try to stay in the U.S. For some athletes, the Olympics aren't just a chance to compete they 71 K, Andrs, Lszl Tbori, A Biography: The Legendary Story of the Great Hungarian Runner (Sarasota: First Edition Design Publishing, 2015), 103Google Scholar. 37 This contributes to Kiril Tomoff's point about the same phenomenon in the Soviet music realm. In 1976, four Romanians and one Russian sought refuge in Canada. Poland has given the athlete a humanitarian visa, and she will fly to Warsaw on Wednesday to seek asylum, according to Alexander Opeikin, executive director of the Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation, a group that opposes the Belarusian government. Jnos Soproni, j csillagok a trvivs egn, NpSport, 19 Sept. 1957, 1; for more about citizenship, see Rider, Cold War. That's what surfing is: You go up; you go down.". The following list of Eastern Bloc defectors contains notable defectors from East Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania before those countries' conversions from Communist states in the early 1990s. But Provaznikova said she was a political refugee and proud of it.. "For years, before I'd engage in any political talk, I'd look around to see if anyone was listening," says Hernek, whose parents had spent time in custody of the AVO, Hungary's secret police. She memorized 25 English words a day, figuring, "if I forget 20, I'm still five ahead." Hungarian Defectors, 1956 Summer Olympics - Getty Images The history of Olympic defectors. For some athletes, the Olympics arent just a chance to compete theyre an opportunity to defect. and The 1964 Tokyo Olympics: Japan's Re-Emergence and the Olympians 79 Gyarmati's Story, Sports Illustrated. He competed in two more Olympics, winning another gold in Tokyo, then served as coach as Hungary won Olympic gold in 1976 and three world titles. [3] Lima single dikeluarkan daripada album; "Won't Stand Down", "Compliance",[4] "Will of the People . The Svengali spirit of his mentor even permeated the running-shoe store Tabori ran for two decades, where he refused to put products on display because he didn't trust customers to pick out the right pair. The man who carried the flag for Eritrea, steeplechaser Weynay Ghebresilasie, along with three others from the Eritrean delegation, also chose to defect, VOA News reported in 2012. 94 Szkely, va, Srni csak a gyztesnek szabad! Fax +36 1 386 9670. V-71031, llambiztonsgi Szolglatok Trtneti Levltra, Budapest (BTL). At the end of the games, about three dozen members of the Hungarian delegation - perhaps more - did not return to Hungary. While her team wined and dined, Ute Gaehler, an alternate for East Germanys toboggan team, ran for the border. vilghbor utn A kommunista diktatra viszonya a hazai labdargkhoz 1956-ig, Palette: I. j- s Jelenkortrtni Tudomnyos Dikkonferencia, ELTE BTK j- s Jelentkori Magyar Trtneti Tanszk, The Communist Rule in Polish Sport History, Romania at the Olympics: Women Gymnasts as Ambassadors in Sportswear, 1950s1970s, The People's Game: Football, State and Society, Des sordides actes de spculation: traces de circulations conomiques dans les dlgations sportives sovitiques (19671982), Sport Under Communism: Behind the East German Miracle, Beyond Boycotts: Sport during the Cold War in Europe, The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War, The Emergence of Europe-Wide Collaboration and Cooperation: Soviet Sports Interactions in Europe. Reduced to serving as the rec director of an orphanage on Long Island, he was afraid to return to Hungary because of things he had been quoted as saying. In Hungary everything was kind of gray.". In 1996 the Sakovicses spent a season as visiting coaches of the Harvard fencing team, living with George and his family in nearby Weyland, Mass. Chronicles of an Olympic Defector Paperback - March 3, 2020 20 Gyrgy Pteri provides an excellent analysis of how Hungary's concerns about its external legitimacy impacted the state's participation in a 1958 international exposition, and the handling of a writer who had contacts with Imre Nagy but was tasked with creating a Hungarian pavilion at the 1958 show. They were a common thing of the Cold War, which saw a number of sportspeople from the Eastern bloc and the USSR seize the opportunity of a sports competition in the West to stay away from their country.iii At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic games, which took place less than 2 weeks after the Hungarian revolution and its violent repression by the Red . One exception in the Hungarian sport literature is Ivan, Emese and Ivan, Dezs, The 1956 Revolution and the Melbourne Olympics: The Changing Perceptions of a Dramatic Story, Hungarian Studies Review, 35, 12 (2008), 923Google Scholar. 'WJ Live': China's Olympics: US Defectors, Uyghur Torchbearer and He died in San Francisco in 1960 at age 61. View all Google Scholar citations "It was a very hard decision to go home," says Lidia, who in 2004 received the Hungarian Olympic Committee's lifetime achievement award. 12:03 PM (GMT) In an interview with Al Jazeera, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian Olympian defector who missed her moment at the Tokyo Games, explained why she is auctioning one of her. 44 Szcs Sndor rny. Decorated Kenyan runner found stabbed to death; police say her husband is a Olympic officials wont push China on human rights ahead of Beijing Games, A cyclist won silver in the Tokyo Olympics. Five days after Takach's arrival in the U.S., Magda trudged over cornfields at night into Austria; eventually she joined him in Los Angeles. He retired to Miami, where he died in 2004 at 85. "It's a skateboard that works like a surfboard," says Gerlach, who's 73 and lives in Ontario, Calif. "A board that can ride uphill. Interestingly, all of the four Romanian players who defected were of Hungarian ethnicity and from the Transylvanian region of Romania. Tomoff, Kiril, Most Respected Comrade. 73 In the absence of concrete evidence, retribution seemed limited to requisitioning the apartments of the defectors, although family members could even remove the personal effects beforehand. 97 See Saunders, Frances Stoner, Who Paid the Piper? He wound up developing office buildings and more than 25,000 dwelling units all over the country, including the early wave of singles-only apartment complexes. 29 See Kornai, Jnos, Economies of Shortage (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980)Google Scholar. Then one day Arpad, while in a furrier's shop looking for a wrap for his wife, overheard a real estate broker mention a vacant lot in East L.A. Kimia Alizadeh beat Team Great. "You need to work hard in life. Khrushchev was one of the USSRs least repressive rulers, and the Hungarians feared that life back home would change for the worse. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during his state . American athletes have defected to China to compete against the United States, and some of them are even using fake names. Now 75, he still coaches 12-year-old swimmers when not selling aquatics supplies and running a pistol range near Stockton, Calif. "My neighbors are cows," he says, "but if I were to win the lottery, I'd probably stay right here.". What became of 1956 Hungarian Olympians? - Sports Illustrated Peterdi, Gyarmati sors, 160. Cooper, Thomas (Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2017)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. . After winning national breaststroke titles in 1958 and '59, she enrolled at Seattle University, studied chemical engineering and then joined Boeing, where she created gold paint that wouldn't flake off the tails of Continental's planes. His runners -- Sandor Iharos, Istvan Rozsavogli and fellow defector Laszlo Tabori -- had been the Kenyans of their time, breaking 22 world records between 1954 and the Melbourne Games. Pteri, Gyrgy, Transsystemic Fantasies: Counterrevolutionary Hungary at Brussels Expo58, Journal of Contemporary History, 47, 1 (2012), 13760CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Having studied chemistry at the University of Budapest, Hamori was able to hook on with a plastics company in Philadelphia for seven years, then study at Cornell before returning to Philly to earn his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Penn and then did postdoctoral work in biophysical chemistry at Cornell. 3 Hungarians Defect At Olympics to U.S. - The New York Times Blood in the water: Hungary's 1956 water polo gold - BBC News Explained: Why do athletes go 'missing' from international sporting Soproni, j csillagok. Ervin Zador is now 76, and lives in northern California They met the Russian team in the semi-final on 6. I didn't burn too many behind me. The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Aquatics 19082008: 100 Years of Excellent in Sport, Holistic Approach to Athletic Talent Development Environments: A Successful Sailing Milieu, http://rtl.hu/rtlklub/hirek/XXI_szazad/videok/314174, http://nol.hu/kultura/a-tarsait-szitava-lottek-a-magyar-uszotehetseg-tulelte-az-ugato-halalt-1628457, http://index.hu/sport/2006/08/19/060816bg/, http://m.heol.hu/heves/sport/kadas-geza-a-gyorsuszobol-lett-peldakep-450770. 104 Gyarmati faced difficulty finding a team that would accept him, probably due to the stigma around his punishment. 8 Robert Edelman similarly discusses the understanding and compromise that British and Soviet leaders developed in sport. 52 Blutstein, Harry, Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games (Melbourne: Echo Publishing, 2017), 556Google Scholar. In 1984, a San Diego newspaper hired Romanian sportswriter Vladimir Moraru as a translator. Hungarian Olympic Triumph: 1936 Berlin - American Hungarian Federation 47 Szcs was tried in an accelerated procedure by the military court, with soldiers standing along the corridor. He joined coach and fellow defector Mihaly Igloi on the American indoor circuit, where meager appearance fees made for a harsh existence until he retired in 1961. Hope and heartbreak of Olympic defectors who used games to flee In the. 45 Szcs Sndor, 3 Mar. An Olympic Defector's Chronicle." This retired naval architect still . The AP reports that 13 fans from Eastern European Communist countries also escaped. 39 Mellis, Negotiation Through Sport, especially Chapters 3 and 6. 26 After Stalin's death, the MKP installed Imre Nagy in power, whose policies aimed to soften repression and base state policies on research, and not on Stalinist dogma. Detractors maintained that Igloi did all the thinking for his runners. 2019, Cupertino, CA. 109 ed., Craig Lord, Aquatics 19082008: 100 Years of Excellent in Sport (Lausanne: FINA, 2008), 110Google Scholar. The Czechoslovak Embassy said the Communist-led government in Prague had approved her decision to remain abroad, according to a New York Times article at the time. The history of Olympic defectors. It pains them to be here and see people beat them who they can beat if they are well taken care of.. After 16 months of surviving on temp jobs and unemployment benefits, he lit out for Hungary. Parks, Olympic Games, xviixx, 4. Upon completion of the SI tour, she was taken in by a family in Walnut Creek, Calif. Fifty-five years later, at 75, she is back in Walnut Creek with her husband, Julius Nagy. Vonnard, Philippe, Sbetti, Nicola and Quin, Grgory, Divided but not disconnected: Studying a New Paradigm for the History of Sport during the Cold War, in Vonnard, Philippe, Sbetti, Nicola, Quin, Grgory, eds., Beyond Boycotts: Sport during the Cold War in Europe (Berlin/Boston: de Gruter Oldenbourg, 2018), 5Google Scholar. They know if they are well trained, they could beat the person from another country. A brief history of asylum seekers at the Olympics and why they are Dihasilkan sendiri oleh kumpulan itu, ia adalah album melonjak genre yang diterangkan oleh Muse sebagai "album hit terdiri daripada lagu baharu". In 2012, around a dozen African Olympians did not return to their home countries, suspected to have instead sought asylum in Britain. Olympic "Defections": Questioning the National Pride Narrative 9 The Disney film enabled viewers to leave with a moral message and a feeling of uplift about the United States's Cold War victory after 9/11. He died in 2009 at age 81; his widow, 76, still lives in the Buda apartment they shared for 52 years. Now, shell face Jamaicas 100-me Olympic magic cut through the pandemic gloom, but the Tokyo Games legacy i Remembering all of the firsts at the Tokyo Olympics. From Defectors to Cooperators: The Impact of 1956 on Athletes, Sport 62 Fdration Internationale de Football Association to National Associations, Information to the National Associations Affiliated to FIFA Transfer of Hungarian refugee footballers, 17 July 1957, Fdration Internationale de Football Association Archives (FA), Zurich. 61 Lszl Tbori, interview with the author and Toby Rider, 5 Nov. 2017, Los Angeles, CA. Kimia Alizadeh: Iranian defector from Olympic Refugee Team stuns two Women's marathoning pioneers Jacqueline Hansen and Miki Gorman flourished under Tabori, who repaid their trust with a confidence rare for male coaches of that era. . From Defectors to Cooperators: The Impact of 1956 on Ursinus College, 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426, United States, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000183, Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. After a few months' stay, she moved to the US where she taught PE and lived to be 100. Tsimanouskaya told the Associated Press her move to seek asylum was not premeditated. by Bryan Dawson. 7 On how Soviet sport bureaucrats balanced these two priorities, see Parks, Olympic Games. She says she was pregnant at th Simone Biles says she should have quit way before Tokyo. 91 I thank Harry Blutstein for sharing this evidence with me. 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Earlier this week, seven of Cameroons athletes disappeared from Londons Olympic Village. Hungary at the Olympics - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ", Her first husband, sportswriter Miklos Molnar, escaped to join his wife on the SI tour, and in 1958 the magazine ran a photo of their baby girl, Aniko. 19 The 3-T phrase comes from the Hungarian words for support, toleration and prohibition. Email info@olimpia.hu. 48 XXI. Czechoslovakia had recently become a satellite of the Soviet Union, and Provaznikova knew her country wouldnt be the same. When Tsimanouskaya made clear her intention to seek asylum Sunday, the Czech Republic offered to welcome her. Belarusian Olympic sprinter who sought protection in Japan granted Polish visa. But on the whole, life was good: a leap out of a hot-air balloon above Schaefer Stadium at halftime of a Monday Night Football telecast in 1972; a gig opening for Evel Knievel in the mid-'70s; his name on a marquee on the Vegas strip: jumpin' joe's sponge plunge. He eventually had to revoke his defection, and he left brokenhearted. 38 People used different kinds of connections to obtain access to hard-to-find goods and services. 25 Moreover, as the interviewer co-creating the oral histories and the scholar analysing the materials, I cannot ignore the fact that my background and lenses influenced this analysis on several levels. Now 78, she lives with her husband, retired physics professor Charles Shapiro, in Novato, Calif., while Aniko lives nearby and works as a chemical engineer. team famously defected during the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne after they found out the Soviet Union stamped out the Hungarian Revolution in Budapest. I'm just an eternal optimist, a diver from a country that had one pool with a diving board.". 95 Itt Tdor beszk a Sportuszodbl Sport, 24 Feb. 1957, 4. There was still a faint scar over his right eye, a reminder of the incident that made his face the iconic image of Hungary's "blood-in-the-water" defeat of the Soviet Union in Melbourne. Laszlo Nadori, Hungarian Sports Ministry Chief of Staff. Silk, Mike, Schultz, Jaime and Bracey, Bryan, From Mice to Men: Miracle, Mythology, and the Magic Kingdom, Sport in Society, 11, 23 (2008), 27997, 281CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Both fled because Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, had been ousted from office. As the iron curtain descended on his home in Budapest, Hungary, Andrs Tr turned to one of the few opportunities permitted by the communist government the sport of canoeing. Paperback - March 3, 2020. Back where the SI tour began, he took a job lifeguarding at an athletic club in Oakland for $6 an hour plus meals, then went on to install air conditioning, build furniture, work as a masseur, carve gun handles, open a restaurant and run a hotel. "Mine's bigger," she says. Provaznikova lived in the U.S. until 1991, dying at age 101. And I really liked working. But I was so homesick for my mother. By the eve of the 1956 Olympics he had set a world record in the 1,500 meters and become the third miler to break four minutes. 1968 was the first time summer athletes had to take sex verification tests. The controversial tests stirred up some noise, helping Cuban tennis player Juan Campos quietly defect to Mexico amid the ruckus. Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has sought refuge at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo becoming the latest Olympic athlete to refuse to return to her country out of fear for her personal safety. vilghbor utn A kommunista diktatra viszonya a hazai labdargkhoz 1956-ig, Palette: I. j- s Jelenkortrtni Tudomnyos Dikkonferencia (Budapest: ELTE BTK j- s Jelentkori Magyar Trtneti Tanszk, 2014), 5780Google Scholar; Fryc, Adam and Ponczek, Miroslaw, The Communist Rule in Polish Sport History, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26, 4 (2009), 50114CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Wood, Michaela, Romania at the Olympics: Women Gymnasts as Ambassadors in Sportswear, 1950s1970s, Revista Arhivelor, 84, 34 (2007), 27381Google Scholar. Scared for his life, he acquired refugee status in Canada. At 77 he still serves on the ski patrol at HoliMount Ski Area near his home in Lawtons, N.Y. As the best English speaker on the SI tour, Martin found himself quoted so often that he feared he'd be punished as a ringleader if he were to return to Hungary. The last one retired. I'm so much more American than Hungarian. The Romanian writer asked for, and received, political asylum. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2021 - On 9 January 2021, five-time Olympic champion gymnast gnes Keleti (photo) turned 100.IOC President Thomas Bach spoke with gnes on the phone, while Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) President Krisztin Kulcsr and Secretary General Blint Vkssy personally conveyed their best wishes to her.The oldest living Olympic champion is also one of the country's most . 2019 Ted Fund Donors The five children she raised with her husband, Dan Zimsen, have dual citizenship. Without a passport, he was detained by Austrian guards at the border for trying to use his Olympic I.D. A sabreman who won a gold medal in Melbourne in the team event, Hamori continued to fence, winning two individual U.S. sabre titles and, in 1964, a berth on the U.S. team in Tokyo. 1951, P. 1011, 3.1.9. He worked as a lifeguard in Virginia, then as a masseur in the Bay Area. She became the first person to defect at the Olympics, at least in the modern era, and a tradition was born. Chin, Jessica W. Selected to represent Hungary in the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games, he made a life-changing decision. Despite the difficulties of adapting to life in a country where at first he didnt speak the language, Zador said before his death in 2012 that there hasnt been a moment Ive regretted it, Sports Illustrated reported.
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