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Figures of a wrestler, a sprinter, a shooter and a hockey player on the numerals “1972”, with the Olympic rings and the words “XX Olympic Games” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1.45 stamp.
The Munich Games
India Post issued two stamps on 10 August 1972 for the XX Olympic Games, held at Munich from 26 August to 11 September 1972. India had won the Olympic hockey gold six times in a row from 1928 to 1956; at Munich its team took the bronze. Besides hockey, India sent athletes, boxers, wrestlers, yachtsmen and marksmen to Munich.
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