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14 August 2025
Bright local recognised with other Aussie Moscow Olympians

Bright’s Bill Scott was one of 50, 1980 Moscow Olympic athletes recently formally recognised for their efforts at the controversial Games, boycotted by dozen of countries in protest to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.

At a dinner in Canberra on Wednesday, 30 July, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese formally acknowledged 121 athletes who defied the then government’s...

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