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| | Harry Hill - Olympian |
 | | When Harry Hill meets the Queen tonight, surrounded by a nation's greatest athletes all gathered for a unique reception at Buckingham Palace, perhaps this grand old man may reflect that this is the Olympic homecoming he should have savoured nearly 70 years ago. |
 | | They thought Harry was the oldest medallist, period, until the unexpected discovery, the other week, that swimmer Sarah Hunt, née Stewart, part of the 4 x 100m freestyle relay silver medal-winning quartet from the 1928 Amsterdam Games, was still going strong in Scotland at 93. |
 | | Having reached Berlin by cycle, boat and train, Harry reckoned the Nazis' great global propaganda exercise and Jesse Owens's heroics tended to pass the cycling competitors by because the velodrome was situated away from all the hullabaloo at the main stadium. |
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