Gallery: Canada at the 1908 London Olympics
Canada’s team first travelled to the Olympic Summer Games in London in 1912.
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Gallery: Canada at the 1908 London Olympics
Canada's 1908 Olympians
Members of Canada's 1908 Olympics athletics (track
and field) team pose together in London at the beginning of the Games.
Marathoner Tom Longboat is seventh from the left in the first row of
standing athletes. Sprinter Bobby Kerr, who wong gold in the 200M
race, is second from the left in the first row of athletes seated on
chairs.
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