At the initiative of the Golden Team Foundation (named after the Hungarian national soccer team that was one of the best in the world in the late 1940s and early 1950s), a monument was erected in honor of the Hungarian athletes who participated in the 1952 Olympics. The sculpture by Miklós Melocco is located in the Olympic Park in Székesfehérvár, SW of Budapest.
The monument was inaugurated this Tuesday. The artist sculpted a book and a bookshelf, which is open in several places, with the names of all the Hungarian medalists of the 1952 Olympics on its pages.
The idea's patron Lajos Kű, a former national football (soccer) team player and now president of the Golden Team Foundation, recalled that the idea was born two years ago when he was invited to Helsinki, where the Hungarian delegation won 16 gold, 10 silver and 16 bronze medals in 1952. He had wanted to set up a national pilgrimage site in Finland's capital, but he was unsuccessful. Budapest as the venue for the monument did not work out, either but Székesfehérvár welcomed the idea "with open arms" of the monument to the 70-year-old "glorious summer Olympics."
He noted that three of the 52 heroes of the Olympiad are still alive: gymnast Ágnes Keleti (101 years old), pentathlete Gábor Benedek (95) and swimmer Valéria Gyenge (89).


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