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10,000 meter race in Melbourne Olympics.
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Physculture Salute.
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Larissa Latynina was a crowd favorite at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the Game's most successful competitor with four gold medals, a silver and a bronze.
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Soviet stars Choudina and Gorchakova won gold and silver medals in the javelin at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games. V. Savostianov, photographer.
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Soviet weight lifters, such as T. Lomakin swept up gold medals the first time their country appeared at the Olympics in 1952. V. Savostianov, photographer.
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Football (soccer) fans in the stands of Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, May 1950. For many fans, "football…was the only sometimes the last possible hope for maintaining in one's soul some small piece of humane feelings and humanity." (Nikolai Starostin)
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Stalin and other Kremlin bosses on their way to meet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to review August 1945 Sportsmen's parade in Red Square.
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Anatoly Tarasov, "the father of Soviet ice hockey" greets the winners of The Stars of Hope Competitions, all students from Sverdlovsk High School #93. 1976.
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Coach Larrissa Latynina supervises a pupil prepare for a gymnastic competition. Latynina stuck to tried-and-true Soviet approaches to become one of the world's most successful coaches.
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The Soviet team.
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