High heels, bikinis and an anti-flirt fence

31 July 2016 - 02:00
By David Isaacson

Free condoms for athletes in the Olympic village? Not at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, where the men's and women's sections were separated by a fence said to have been one-and-a-quarter inches higher than the world pole-vault record.And the only gate between them was guarded around the clock by a sentry, recall the three surviving members of the South African women's 4x100m freestyle relay team that won bronze.

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