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TIL Edwin Flack is Australia's first and sole Olympic Gold Medalist in the 1896 Olympic in Greece, before Australia was even an official country (1901). With no flag, national anthem or uniform; he simply competed in his Melbourne Grammar School banner and singlet.

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