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Writing in the "Observer” on the award of the 1964 Olympic Games to Tokyo, Norris McWhirter says: “It is not the traffic jams or the earthquakes which will frighten visiting athletes so much as the Japanese starting orders. 4 They are: 'I chi Ni to’, ion your ■ marks). *Yoo P (get set). Mer- ■ cifully the bang is internationally ■ understood.” ■
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 5
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