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PETER SNELL’S SINGLET SELLS -THEN DOESN’T The sale of the singlet that Peter Snell supposedly wore to victory, winning two Olympic Golds at the 1964 Olympics, fell through after Te Papa questioned its authenticity.
Barry Magee with the singlet he was wearing when he won his medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Inset: October 21, 1964, Peter Snell crossing the finish line to win the gold medal in the Olympic 1500m event at the Olympic stadium in Tokyo.
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The news brought a sense of nostalgia to me about Arthur Lydiard’s boys – six men – Murray Halberg, Peter Snell, Barry Magee, Bill Baillie, Jeff Julian and Ray Puckett. They were all Olympians. Murray and Peter were all-time greats. The amazing thing is that they trained in Mt Roskill, based at Owairaka, and several, including Lydiard, lived here. For several years until recently I worked with Jeff Julian. When he started he was in his early seventies and he often jogged from one part of the site to another. Coincidentally, Jeff and Barry Magee lived in the same street in Lynfield. I was driving past the old Council Chambers and sports field at Three Kings with Jeff one day. He told me about training there in winter after work. The field was poorly lit with only the spill from a couple of street lights casting weak light across the field. When there was light rain or dew, they could run around the track before it got too dark and flatten the grass. Later they could see the track in the dark due to the shadows cast on the grass from those two Continued pg 2 street lights!