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07 Apr: Michael Lapage, Olympian & Missionary and 1948 Olympics

07 Apr: Michael Lapage, Olympian & Missionary and 1948 Olympics
Apr 6, 2016 · 15m

Our journey through the Olympics of the modern era brings us to the 1948 Games in London. Organised just three years after the end of the Second World War it...

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Our journey through the Olympics of the modern era brings us to the 1948 Games in London. Organised just three years after the end of the Second World War it became known as the Austerity Games due to the economic climate and post-war rationing. A record number of 59 nations took part but not Germany or Russia. Many athletes were housed in military barracks rather than a comfortable Olympic Village. British rower Michael Lapage, who later became a Christian missionary, recalls his experience at the Games when he won silver in the men's Eights and we hear again from Dorothy Tyler who won her second Olympic silver medal in the women's high jump, adding to the medal she won 12 years earlier in Berlin.
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