As we look forward to the Olympics next year, 2012, in London, it’s time to look back at Britain’s progress in the Olympic Games in the 1960s.
This year hopes are high for sporting gold from the British team who have been out training hard and already hitting the headlines with sporting wins. So, how well did we do in the years of the 1960’s decade? Was Britain a grand nation winning gold at every turn?
Well, there were three Games in the decade; the first in 1960 was in Rome, the second in 1964 in Tokyo and the final one of the decade in 1968 was in Mexico City.
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