a week you’ll remember a lifetime!
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A Week You’ll Remember a Lifetime!
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Terry Fisher
Javelin Thrower
With Northern Rhodesia
team mascot Kafupe
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Trinidad sprinter
Mike Agostini holding
his 100 Yards gold medal
and pair of
Adidas track spikes
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Bill Parnell’s track spikes, at
left.
Bill Parnell, far right, leading 1950 British Empire Games mile, on his way to winning gold and setting
the BEG record.
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Opening Ceremonies
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Lord Alexander
Prince Philip
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Stan Smith, testing out the
new cycling track, at left.
Stan Smith with Mayor Fred Hume,
at right.
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Ticket Stubs Victory Medal: Front and Back
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BEG Society General Manager Blair Clerk (left) and BEG Society General Chairman Stan Smith (right)
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Empire Stadium
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Emmanuel IfeajunaNigeria
Gold MedalistMen’s High Jump
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Canada’s Doug Hepburn, gold medalist in weightlifting, heavyweight division
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North Vancouver’s Sam
Gardiner and Dick Williams,
who represented Canada in pairs lawn bowling, winning silver.
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Gardiner and Williams in action during BECG lawn bowling competition.
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UBC-VRC Rowing Eights Crew, Gold medalists in men’s eights rowing
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John Landy arriving in Vancouver
Roger Bannister at right
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The eight starters in the Miracle Mile (left to right): Bill Baillie, New Zealand; David Law, England; Ian Boyd, England; Roger Bannister, England; Victor Milligan, Northern Ireland; Murray Halberg, New Zealand; Rich Ferguson, Canada; John Landy, Australia.
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English marathoner Jim Petersbreaking the marathon world
record for the fourth time in the spring of 1954.
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Bannister-LandyMiracle Mile
statue at Empire Fields
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