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Nothing to do with motocross and not 50 years ago (I was only 5 50 years ago!!) so 38 years will have to be close enough. The photo was taken at the first ever "Whitehorse Trophy" Archery Tournament that was run by my club back then, Box Hill City Archers. The year was 1980 and I was shooting in Under 18 Boys. We shot an unusual format comp that year, shooting an old English Hereford round which used 5 ring scoring and distances were in yards rather than metres. I was lucky enough to win the section (my second ever win!) and got to shoot on the same target as Carole Toy, who the year before had won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Berlin and went on to represent Australia at the Moscow Olympics later that year after resisting the bucket loads of money the Fraser Government threw around to persuade athletes to boycott. I recently discovered that I still have my old bow in a box that I have carted around for the last 30 odd years.
If you read the article, it has nothing to do with the photo BTW!! The cutting is from the old Progress Press paper in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne.
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