WML Project: Female Olympians

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1/21/58 Ernestine Russell, who was both a Canadian and US Gymnastics champion, visited TTT. (She comes on at 16:50) She was at both the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.

 

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6/10/58 Olga Connolly, Czechoslovakian Olympian who married American Olympian Hal Connolly after the 1956 Olympics, (where both won gold medals int heir events), appeared on TTT. She's the first contestant- and Harold is the second! One of his imposters is Alex Webster of the New York Giants.


Harold and Olga's romance was quite the sensation at the height of the cold war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Fikotová

Harold's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Connolly