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‘The most exciting environment in the world’ — Beaufort resident remembers his Olympic experience as 2026 Winter Games continue

George Greenfield sits comfortably in his Lady’s Island home overlooking a pond where blue herons visit daily as he thinks back to the warm day of Aug. 26, 1972. He was one of the 400 U.S. athletes marching into the Olympiastadion in Munich for opening ceremonies of that summer’s Olympics.

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