Melbourne Olympic Games

  • Zsuzsanna Bogos
    Ágnes Keleti

    1956 ruined sporting stars, and let plenty of talent out of the country

    The Hungarian women's gymnastics team was at the height of an astonishing run of success when news came of the crushing of the 1956...
  • Andrea Csongor
    The group of sportsmen travelling to the XVI Summer Olympic Games. In the foreground István Hevesi water polo player, next to him Imre Polyák wrestler, and György Gurics wrestler, behind them Ervin Zádor water polo player, and Jenő Bakó, swimming master coach

    The "Melbourne bloodbath", the revenge of the Hungarian water polo team – How we repaid the crushing of the '56 revolution

    It would surely be difficult to find a connection between the sight of blood mixing with the pool water, the Olympic performance of our...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Sándor Iharos running at a race

    World success chased him in vain, never caught up with him – Sándor Iharos, a runner who was faster than everyone

    It is said that in Hungary in the 1950s, Sándor Iharos was to athletics what Ferenc Puskás was to football. In 1955, he was...