A few more items. The Olympic Collectors Fair was hosted by the Gothenburg Sports Museum. A nice museum with displays on everything from table tennis to boxing to Olympics, including Ingemar Johansson's championship belt. As part of the show they arranged for some Swedish Olympic medal winners to appear at the show and sign autographs. They also produced 100 postcards for each athlete that was to appear. There were 13 Olympians and one Paralympian that appeared at the show and they signed anything you gave them. They also had 4 Olympians and one Paralympian who were unable to attend who pre-signed the postcards. There were different people each of the three days. On Sunday they placed all of the remaining signed postcards on a table if you wanted extras. The longest line was maybe 2 people and most were people I knew. Here are a few of the postcards.
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'Integrity is what you do when no one is looking'
"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”
Last edited by Michael B; 05-21-2016 at 02:30 AM.
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