Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti

Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti

Gymnast Ágnes Keleti was one of about 40 Hungarian athletes who defected from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Unlike most of her compatriots, she stayed in Australia, spending a few months there before leaving again: Germany, Israel, and then back to Hungary where she lives today. This is the seventh episode of our series “Olympic deserters, a parallel history of the Olympics”.

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