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LarkinCollector
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Time to hunt for some great Olympians ...
Some of the possibles listed here: https://www.psacard.com/pop/multi-sport-cards/1976/edis-olimpiadi/99431
and here: https://www.psacard.com/pop/multi-sport-cards/1976/panini-montreal-76/43168
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Edis was, not surprisingly, a bust on star power, but totally worth it for this kooky pic of an Indonesian weightlifter ...
C'mon Panini, show me some love!
Although I'd never heard of her, sounds like Babashoff was a heckuva swimmer w/three golds and six silvers in the Olympics ...
Although Babashoff never won an individual gold medal in Olympic competition, she is still regarded as one of the top swimmers in history, and is most vividly remembered for having swum the anchor leg on the gold-medal winning 4×100-meter freestyle relay team, in its victory over the doped up, steroid-plagued 1976 East German women, in what is widely acknowledged as having been the single greatest race in the entire history of women's swimming.
Abebe Bikila was back to back olympic marathon champion, and one of the all time greats.
No love from Panini either, solid Cuban boxer, commem of the first Olympics, and what I would expect to be the first image to come up if Googling '1970s italian man' ...
Total cost w/shipping and tax from two different sellers, a touch more than a modern blaster. Adding Serbia to the countries I've had stuff mailed to me from, priceless (and only took about a week).
I'm not sure why anyone thought the 1976 East German women were on steroids, seems a bit far-fetched to me . . .
Whoa, hold up there Kyle; how the heck did you overlook mentioning in the OP that you had tracked down the Yugoslavian issue version of the Panini Montreal 76 set?! The Yugo ones are significantly more rare, with only a tiny fractional quantity printed compared to their standard Italian counterpart.
It wasn't intentional
I actually know very little about the set, was just hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and hit a RC on the cheap. I did notice the '1 Dinar' on the front before opening and probably should have done a bit of research.