1952: Olympics

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The games of the fifteenth modern Olympiad were held in Helsinki, Finland, from July 19 to August 3. That they were held at all was a tribute to the idea of sports for sports' sakean ideal revered by the late Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who fathered the Olympic revival in 1896. That they turned out... ...