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Dual Olympic distance swimmer Max Metzker<\/strong> and track and field star Denise Boyd <\/strong>hold a special place in the annals of Australian sport \u2013 celebrating today\u2019s 40th<\/sup> anniversary of the defining moment when they led their team into Moscow\u2019s Lenin Stadium for the 1980 Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Australian team marched proudly not under the Australian flag but the Olympic flag after team general manager Phil Coles<\/strong> asked if the pair would accept the honour and responsibility of leading the team after an historic struggle just to compete in a Games that saw 23 countries withdraw following Russia\u2019s invasion of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Coles wanted a show of unity in a divided country that saw a casting Australian Olympic Federation vote decide the fate of an Australian team who had to sneak out of the country \u2013 a team of just 123 athletes, 27 of them women, wilted down by withdrawals after enormous pressure to stay at home from the Government of the day.<\/p>\n

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United Under Olympic Ideals: Australia’s co-flag bearers from Moscow 1980, Denise Boyd and Max Metzker. Photo Courtesy: Russell McPhedran (Hanson Media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n

So for the first time in Australia\u2019s proud Olympic history, the team had joint flag bearers and not under the Australian flag which Metzker says: \u201cLeading the team in Moscow is my proudest moment in sport\u2026it\u2019s an honour from your country\u2026.it\u2019s something that is bestowed upon you and you think \u2018thanks for that it is something I’ll cherish forever.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Metzker remembers only too well the moment Coles asked him if he would accept the honour, a special moment in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe announcing of the flag bearer is always a big thing like in Sydney the 500 strong team are all assembled and the Prime Minister is there to announce who will carry the flag into the Stadium\u2026. it\u2019s huge,\u201d said Max.<\/p>\n

But in 1980 and inside the Moscow Village, Max Metzker was in the shower.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually shaving my legs and getting ready to race and I was sharing a room with Mark Kerry<\/strong> when Phil Coles<\/strong> sticks his head in the bath room and says \u2018Hey Max\u2026.sorry to disturb you mate but I have chosen you and Denise (Boyd) to carry the flag in The Opening Ceremony, would you like to do it?\u2019 and standing there in the shower I said \u2018Thanks Phil I\u2019d be honoured\u2019 and I just gave him the thumbs up,\u201d recalls Max.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I bumped into Denise in the food hall and said \u2018let\u2019s go\u2019. I remember a real feeling of excitement\u2026and Denise and I were thinking \u201cHow are we going to carry the flag together ?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are at a surf carnival on the beach back home, carrying the flag in a march past you have the flag in the frog and it\u2019s just one person but in Moscow we both had to twist to the left and right so we could hold the flag together. Not difficult but awkward\u2026but we got through it well and it was something I will never forget.<\/p>\n

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BRONZED AUSSIE: Max Metzker bronze in the Moscow 1500m Photo Courtesy: Australian Olympic Committee.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI was totally proud. It represented that defining moment of all our struggles\u2026..finally we are here\u2026the struggles are over we are walking into Lenin Stadium for the Opening Ceremony and that was the start of the competition\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metzker would go on to take a well deserved bronze medal behind Russian legend and his good friend Vladimir Salnikov<\/strong> in the 1500m freestyle who created history by becoming the first man to break 15 minutes \u2013 clocking a world record of 14:58.27.<\/p>\n

The pair had swum together in the 1976 Montreal Olympic final, Salnikov finishing fifth and Metzker sixth.<\/p>\n

Boyd, a dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist and a premier sprinter on the track and a finalist in the 200m in Montreal would go on to finish seventh in that final again in Moscow \u2013 racing superbly against the might of the dubious Eastern Bloc runners.<\/p>\n

But their paths did not cross again for 20 years after that momentous occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next time I saw Denise after Moscow was 20 years on at the function in Sydney to announce that Andrew Gaze would be the flagbearer in 2000\u2026and they honoured all the flag bearers of previous Olympics, including my old Maroubra Surf Club mate, five-time Olympic kayaker Dennis Green (1972) and they presented us all with a wall-mounted, framed flag and what Olympics we carried the flag and a momento that sits proudly on my wall at home,\u201d said Metzker.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd how many surf clubs in Australia would have two flag bearers \u2013 Maroubra has Greeny from Melbourne and myself from Moscow\u2026.that\u2019s pretty special\u2026Maroubra has quite a history there\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FLYING THE FLAG: Members of the Australian team happy to be arriving in Moscow. Photo Courtesy: Russell McPhedran (Hanson Media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n

Max Metzker, who also celebrates a 35-year career in the NSW Fire Brigade today, reached out to his fellow flag bearer Boyd, now living in Queensland saying in a message: \u201cHi Denise, just wanted to contact you to say how proud I am of what you and I did, marching into the Olympic Stadium together 40 years ago; you can be very proud of what you did and what we did for the team\u2026we don\u2019t need accolades from anyone else, lets just be proud of what we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Boyd came back with \u2018what a beautiful surprise to get your text Max thanks so much. Hopefully at our 50th<\/sup> anniversary we\u2019ll be able to get together at a function so please keep in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

A small group of Australian athletes led by dedicated decathlete Peter Hadfield<\/strong> and a group of swimmers, including Moscow medley relay gold medallist Mark Tonelli,<\/strong> bronze medallist Graeme Brewer<\/strong> along with Max Metzker\u2019s co-captain Lisa Forrest<\/strong> and Ron McKeon<\/strong> will be amongst a small gathering who will attend a casual COVID friendly lunch at a restaurant at Circular Quay today.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t help but get the feeling that these athletes are very much the forgotten Australian Olympic Team who defied the government of the day to continue Australia\u2019s proud and unbroken Olympic Games history \u2013 a fact that so many dine out on \u2013 one, officials seem to forget, instead of showing a great debt of gratitude to the brave 127 who went to Moscow without fear or favour \u2013 representing their country and upholding their Olympic ideals.<\/p>\n

As Phil Coles wrote in the 1980 Australian Olympic Federation\u2019s Official Moscow report: \u201cThe 22nd<\/sup> Olympiad for a number of reasons will long be remembered, significantly perhaps, being the non attendance of the US, West Germany, Canada and Japan. While the Olympics prevailed and contests were of a high criteria, there remained an air of sorrow for our absent colleagues. If I may be permitted to repeat the words of the Honorary President of the IOC Lord Killanin: \u201cThe Olympic Games are designed to bring people together \u2013 not divide them. Let us all hope for the future that understanding will take the place of misunderstanding.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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LET’S GET THE PARTY STARTED: Australians Isa Wye (Manager), swimmers Karen Van Der Graaf and Michelle Ford, legendary coach Joe King and a baby-faced Lisa Curry after the Opening Ceremony. Photo Courtesy: Russell McPhedran (Hanson Media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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