The races to be run, the records to be broken, were not all that preoccupied the heavyhearted Hungarian Olympic team. Fresh from the ordeal of a revolution at home in which many had fought and for which victory seemed certain at the time of their leaving, the young athletes heard the bad news soon afterward during a brief stayover in Communist Czechoslovakia. "I am regaining control of their physical condition," said Chief Coach Mihaly Igloi, when his boys and girls were settled at last in Melbourne, "but their minds are in Hungary."
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