1956 Olympic flame hoax

The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, including a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was the torchbearer of the Olympic flame during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The Independent called it the greatest hoax in Olympic history.

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