Dawn Fraser caused a furore at the Tokyo Olympics when she stole an Olympic flag, but four years earlier she was involved in another, previously unknown, heist.
When Dawn Fraser and two fellow Australian team members souvenired an Olympic flag in Tokyo in 1964 and were chased by the constabulary, it wasn’t the first time the nation’s greatest ever female athlete had engaged in flag theft.
The 1960 Olympic flag – now faded white but with its five intersecting rings still clear - measures 3.7m x 5.5m and has been on a 62-year peripatetic journey. Following Keith’s premature death in 1980, the flag remained with Stevens, despite occasional entreaties from the Whitehead family for its return.
“It’s been like chipping away at an iceberg,” Edwards, the AOC’s head of community engagement, said. “But Jeff finally, sort-of, agreed over the last two years that the flag could and should be handed over.
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