Yoshinori Sakai, a student born in Hiroshima on the day the first atomic bomb devastated the city, carried the Torch up the stairs to light the Cauldron ©Keystone/Getty Images

Soviet Valery Brumel cleared the high jump bar with a leap of 2.18cm to claim an Olympic record and the gold medal ©Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Japan's Yoshinobu Miyake won gold in front of his home crowd in the men's featherweight weightlifting ©Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Robert Hayes (far right) of the United States was the winner of the men's 100m in a world record time of 10.06 seconds ©Allsport Hulton/Archive

Spanish featherweight Valentin Loren hit boxing referee Gyorgy Sermer of Hungary with a left jab after being disqualified for illegal blows during his Olympic bout ©STF/AFP/Getty Images

Frenchman Pierre Jonqueres dOriola won individual jumping gold in Tokyo ©Central Press/Getty Images

Marathon runners kept warm in patterned blankets after the men's race ©Keystone/Getty Images

A bag of food for Swedish cyclist Gosta Peterson during the men's road race ©Central Press/Getty Images

Australian Dawn Fraser (centre, without cap) won her third straight women's 100m freestyle Olympic title ©Staff/AFP/Getty Images

Edith McGuire (centre) of the United States won the women's 100m ©Keystone/Getty Image

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