Eight years after the great Hungarian defection at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, athlete Andras Toro defected at the 1964 Tokyo Games. A canoe specialist, he sought asylum in the United States and became a naval engineer in Michigan. Thirteenth episode of our summer series on Olympic deserters.
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Andras Toro, the Hungarian kayaker who dreamed of America
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