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Posted: Wed 23:54, 28 Aug 2013 Post subject: Marjorie Jackson Nelson-spun4 |
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Marjorie Jackson Nelson
GEORGE NEGUS: Another bygone Olympic hero they labelled the 'Lithgow Flash'. In 1952, Marjorie Jackson had become the first Australian to win an Olympic gold medal since 1896 and also the first Australian woman to ever achieve this. Fascinatingly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nowadays she's the Governor of South Australia, but tonight she remembers her athletic era of homemade equipment and literally training in the dark.
MARJORIE JACKSON-NELSON, GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: You know, I trained every night after work. Then when these kids say, "Oh, I can not do that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I can't do this," it's not during my dictionary. You can do anything if you believe in yourself. And that i wanted to go to people Olympic Games. You'd be amazed how many people ring me, like, Olympic year - like, a parent or gaurdian - and will say, "Oh," you realize, "my daughter can run. How do I get her within the Olympic Team this year?" I say, "Wish it was quite that easy!" They don't realise the years of dedication that goes with it.
After i was competing, you couldn't buy running shoes. You didn't have your brand shoes. I remember my first pair was a second-hand pair of men's shoes plus they were too big. Dad got them from somewhere. I'm not sure where. And I used to stuff all of them with newspaper and run inside them. Dad would draw my foot on some paper, send them down to Sydney and also the chap made the athletic shoes. Never once did they unfit me, so that will explain what a good shoemaker he was.
I earned ? 17s 6d per week. I gave Mum 7s 6d. It took me three months to save up my wages - what was left of these - to purchase both pair of running shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Dad made my blocks. If he hadn't,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I wouldn't have experienced any starting blocks. Would have had to dig out a hole having a trowel. That will happen to be hard in the cinders. There wasn't any sponsors. I was away for two and a half months and you couldn't wash the tracksuits - they were great big, heavy, cotton things. So we all stunk together. Because if you washed them, you never, ever got them dry, not working in london, not a way. We stayed there a month before we went on to Finland.
When I got selected for the Olympic Games, they only competed overseas on cinders and we only ever ran on grass. So we'd never, ever had cinders to run on. So the people of Lithgow all place in and built this track by using the council, In my opinion. And,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], um, they didn't have money left to put any illuminates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so, um, I trained in the fog and the sleet and the snow for all those Olympic Games by the lights of 1 motor car. Sometimes you couldn't even call at your hand in front individuals for that fog. Uh, Mr Monaghan was my trainer, and that he owned this second-hand motor car. He would get on the end and set the lights on,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you couldn't view it with the fog. Then I'd feel with my feet and hope I had been in the center of the track and then just keep running till I banged into the car, since you only saw the light concerning the last 5m! Looking back, I'm not sure how I didn't break a leg.
All I possibly could think of the Olympics was going overseas, you know. The whole of my entire life, I needed to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace because that's all I ever knew about whenever we were little, you realize - these pictures on the Movietone News of Buckingham Palace, never, ever thinking I would ever use it.
I remember I got invited to compete in Victoria and I was the talk of Lithgow because I had been going to Victoria. And so i was much more of a hero because I was going interstate than ever before any race which i ran.
I got married just on my 22nd birthday. I met Peter the year before,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], therefore we got married the next year. We'd no money. He had enough to purchase this diamond engagement ring and also the wedding ring. We did not have another razoo. And I can remember on our honeymoon, we visited this little place and that we became quite friendly with the people who were there. And I've never, ever forgotten it as long as I live. They arrived on the scene the night before we left plus they gave us back our deposit and said that the honeymoon was on them. Well, nobody had ever provided us with anything. And I've never, ever forgotten those individuals.
GEORGE NEGUS: Aren't some parents marvellous - "How will i get my daughter to operate within the Olympics?" Well, thank you, Excellency - we still call governors that these days, I think. Well, 10 world sprint records despite the fog and also the car lights. And how about those homemade starting blocks? Mind you,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rudimentary facilities and equipment like those blocks were in no way unique back in those times.
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