Canada’s One-Girl Team In Moscow – Ernestine Russell, of Windsor, Ont., the single Canadian entrant in the world gymnastics championships at Moscow, parades alongside her country’s flag in opening ceremonies at Lenin Stadium Saturday, before 100,000 spectators. Today her coach, Bernard Newman, in a call to his home at Windsor, from Vienna, said he and Ernestine were ushered prematurely out of the Soviet Union by the Moscow government.

Associated Press · [ca. July 1958]

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