Amazingly, Australia won only five medals in Montreal - one silver and four bronzes. This comparative failure did indeed inspire the founding of the Australian Institute of Sport. Britain's best return in the last 50 years was the six gold medals won in Melbourne in 1956. In Lausanne, Switzerland, where the Olympic Museum is also to be found. One Cassius Marcellus Clay, who won the gold medal in the Light Heavyweight boxing.
Scullers have two oars each, but rowers use only one oar each.
It is 98.48 metres, set by Jan Zelezny in 1996. Zelezny, of the Czech Republic, has won his third consecutive Olympic gold in Sydney - his winning throw of 90.17 metres broke his own Olympic record. They normally travel by air, by specialist carrier. The aeroplanes are specially adapted to provide comfortable stable facilities for the horses, who are normally accompanied by their grooms. Quarantine regulations must be observed, and the horses need a few days to acclimatise at the end of their journey.