King Gong

 Olympics Photo Quiz 7 

 Background 

The British Olympic medal winner Ken Richmond's nineteen stone frame was for decades known to millions, but few of them could have named the face that topped the six foot five strongman. For, although three men preceded him in the role, from the mid fifties onwards it was his oiled torso that cinema goers saw bang the gong at the start of J Arthur Rank films. Or at least that's what they thought they saw and heard. In fact Richmond mimed striking what in fact was a prop made of papier mache, for as he said in an interview in his later years 'hitting a real gong that size would have deafened me'. By that time Ken Richmond was able to look back on a colourful life that had not only included competing at three Olympic Games, and appearing as an extra in numerous films, but saw him serve time both in prison as a conscientious objector during the second world war and as a crew member of Antarctic whaling ships. His Olympic medal, a bronze, came at the Helsinki Games of 1952, while he kept himself fit enough throughout his life to be an active windsurfer in his sixties.                         

 Olympics Photo Quiz 7 

In what sport did Ken Richmond compete at the Olympic Games held in London in 1948, Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956? 

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 Olympics Photo Quiz 6 Answer 
Three other Olympic medalists in addition to Johnny Weissmuller played the character of Tarzan in Hollywood films, they were fellow swimmer Buster Crabbe, shot putter Herman Brix and decathlete Glen Morris.

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