While studying engineering and chemistry, Magay earned room and board at a fraternity by waiting tables and washing dishes, then found work with a fledgling Silicon Valley firm called Raychem. 88 He says he helped pull down a large red star from a building and build a barricade in Budapest. The Olympics have served as sites of protest, platforms to isolate discriminatory regimes and theaters for Cold War tensions. Some of the soccer players who defected in 2008 under a U.S. policy that allowed Cubans to obtain asylum upon reaching American soil went on to play for other teams. This article examines three case studies between 1951 and 1960 to illustrate how the 1956 Revolution and mass defection of Hungarian Olympic athletes following the Melbourne Games impacted the relations between Hungarian sport leaders and athletes. Hungarian Defectors, 1956 Summer Olympics - Getty Images 3 Kijellte a Magyar Olimpiai Bizottsg a rmai olimpin szerepl magyar versenyzket, NpSport, 27 July 1960, 1. Now, shell face Jamaicas 100-me Olympic magic cut through the pandemic gloom, but the Tokyo Games legacy i Remembering all of the firsts at the Tokyo Olympics. She met her husband, Bernd Wachter, an international marketing executive for an oil company, in New York City while studying art history there. For some athletes, the Olympics arent just a competition: theyre a chance to escape oppression. That's when SI's parent, Time Inc., needed a place in Alexandria, Va., to house its Time-Life Books unit, and the company rented office space from one of the people it had brought to the U.S. Jozsef Sakovics and Lidia Domolky Sakovics, Fencing. card, but he charmed them by playing U.S. LPs on their record player. 16 For another perspective on how Hungarians interacted with developments in the global Cold War following the Hungarian Revolution, albeit with those in the global South, see James Mark and Pter Apor, Socialism Goes Global. Andre Laguerre and members of the Sports Illustrated via Getty Images . Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is the latest in a long list of Olympic defectors That's what surfing is: You go up; you go down.". 78 Tks, Rudolf, Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 19571990 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 14Google Scholar. 4 Caute, David, The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1Google Scholar; Tomoff, Kiril, Virtuoso Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 19451958 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012), 11Google Scholar.
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