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Hungarians in the Olympics

When Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi was asked if he believed in extraterrestrials, he replied, "They are already here...they are called Hungarians!"

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Despite its being torn apart after WWI and losing half her total population and 2/3 of her territory, Hungary ranks 8th in the world in medals - this does not include the Hungarians that won medals as nationals of other countries after borders were artificially redrawn. 

The beginnings of the Olympic Movement in Hungary go back further than the Games in Athens. Ferenc Kemeny, a great pacifist and member of the International Peace Bureau, was one of Pierre de Coubertin's first kindred spirits, with whom he struck up a friendship in the 1880's. He took an active part in the Congress for the re-establishment of the Games held in Paris in 1894 and was one of the founder members of the IOC. Thanks to the Hungarian Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee for many of the pictures here.

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