Talk:1956 Olympic flame hoax

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Did you know... that Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?

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Strictly come dancing?

I don't own the DVD. Is the current Reference 3 to the Strictly Come Dancing DVD a joke? IAmNitpicking (talk) 10:53, 25 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nazi Image

The Nazi image is surely relevant to the article, but is there anything that can be done to prevent that image from being presented as the thumbnail when linking to this article in, say, a chat app? A free use image of the actual event would be fantastic, of course, but is there at least some sort of robots.txt/honors system syntax that can be used to ask external applications not to use that image? - Dπ (talk) 17:19, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]