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Editorial

The Olympics, Ireland and me

My ‘first’ Olympic Games were in 1972—no, not as a competitor, but as a schoolboy spectator on summer holidays with plenty of time on my hands. Who can forget the USA’s Mark Spitz winning seven gold medals in the pool, Belarusian gymnast Olga Korbut charming the world (but not the judges), the USSR beating the … Read more

Categories Editorial, Issue 5 (September/October 2024), Volume 32

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