Romi Bryden
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/ 6 August 2004

Olympians, every last one

When the Olympic Games start in Athens this month, former Robben Island prisoners will remember their own Summer Games. The torch that started the Robben Island Olympics was a Molotov cocktail made by the prisoners out of a glass lampshade filled with earth and combustible oil. Robben Island’s inmates were the ultimate sports heroes, writes Romi Bryden.