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Remembering Joe Sweeney and his surfing connection

 

Remembering Joe Sweeney and his surfing connection

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On this day at Melbourne 1956, Ronald "Joe" Sweeney’s Olympic wrestling competition lasted just six minutes and five seconds, but it would take nearly 60 years for surfing, the sport he was passionate about, to be included in the Olympics