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‘Blood in the Water’: The Melbourne Olympics water polo stoush that wowed Tarantino – Wide World of Sports
‘I told him that he was a loser, his family were losers’
By Dennis Passa, AP — Quentin Tarantino called a documentary film about it “the best untold story ever.”
Even allowing for the famed director’s Hollywood-spawned hyperbole, generations of sports fans have never heard of one of the most extraordinary events in Olympic history.
It was dubbed “Blood in the Water” and centres on a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The semi-final match occurred just weeks after the Soviet invasion o…
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