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Road to Paris 2024: Moscow 1980 - “Greatest Olympics ever”, US-led boycott, and “Gold, Gold, Gold!”

Jun 16 2024 Updated June 16, 2024

David Dixon

7 min read

Our first Gold in eight long years, Australia’s triumphant four-times 100-metre medley relay team, from left, Mark Kerry, Peter Evans, Neil Brooks, and Mark Tonelli. Photo: Fairfax Archive/Russell McPhedran

With the Paris Summer Games starting on Friday, July 26, Dubbo Photo News is taking a nostalgic look at some of the highlights and heroes, controversies and clashes, of one of the world’s great sporting extravaganzas, the modern Olympics.

By David Dixon

Well-known Australian sports journalist, Barry Ross, taking an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour in mid-1979 at the planning behind the 1...