FILE - In this Aug. 7. 1948 file photo, Bob Mathias, right, is shown during the Olympic decathlon in London.
At left is Oto Rebula of Yugoslavia and at center is Orn Clausen of Iceland. The Associated ... LONDON -- Sammy Lee remembers it vividly: food rationing, bombed-out buildings, rubble. The year was 1948, and London was hosting the Olympics amid severe austerity in the aftermath of World War II.
london 1948, When U.S. basketball player Ray Lumpp traveled to London to compete in the 1948 Olympics food was being rationed and bombing rubble remained in a city still recovering from World War II. Things were ... LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Veteran Olympians reminiscing on Sunday, as London began its countdown as host of the 2012 Games, recalled a very different British Olympics 60 years ago. The 1948 London ...
london 1948, The New York Times: At the Olympics in Bombed-Out London, She Forever Changed Women’s Sports The 1948 Summer Games, the first held after the war, were a celebration of improvisation, renewal and change, embodied in a Dutch track star named Fanny Blankers-Koen. Fanny Blankers-Koen crossing the ... LONDON (Reuters) - With a year to go until the opening ceremony, the 2012 Olympics are a constant presence in Britain: construction work is in full swing, warm-up events are under way and the ... insidethegames.biz: London 2012 polyclinic to be named after Paralympic founder Sir Ludwig Guttmann
