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Ancient Olympics - sport and politics
Fourth in a series of programmes on the ancient Olympic games. Why sport and politics could be a potent mixture. The programme explores how an athlete's sporting victory was also a political victory for the city he came from and victorious athletes were regarded as national heroes.
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