Triumph and Tragedy in Munich
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“It was 20 minutes of film that I had never seen before. I wasn't conscious that they had been filming everything. The International Olympic Committee had all of this out-take footage that never made the documentaries they made at the time. I only saw 20 minutes of it. There's 300 hours of it!”
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“I go: ‘Well, I was actually thinking the same thing about you.’
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“This isn’t about developing Olympians – these programmes are sustainable, they are there for the long term in these communities.
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