1956 Olympic flame hoax
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1956-olympic-flame-hoax-166-9421037
title:
1956 Olympic flame hoax
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The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, including a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was the torchbearer of the Olympic flame. The Independent called it the greatest hoax in Olympic history.
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1956 hoax involving a homemade Olympic flame torch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Olympic_flame_hoax
date created:
2008-04-06T14:26:12Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:26:03Z
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