A Sporting Chance
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Tears flowed like spring rain as the elfin A ustra lian realised that she had be come the country’s first track and field medallist for 16 years ... There were women athletes at the Olympics who were distinguished by moustaches and physiques that would alarm Dean Lukin, and it is enough to say that Glynis Nunn was not one of them. She was an a th le te of und im in ished femininity who smiled warmly and spoke softly, who ran lightly and through with grace, who tri umphed with modesty and who accepted her hour of happiness in the time-honoured woman’s way, she cried. That is why the world applauded. (Melbourne Herald, Oct 2,1984.)
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