By Chris Parsons PUBLISHED: 11:06 EST, 26 July 2012 | UPDATED: 20:00 EST, 26 July 2012 When medal winner David Bond scooped gold at the last London Olympics over half a century ago, the event was a far cry from the all-encompassing, multi-billion pound 'Greatest Show on Earth' it is today. Now 64 years after the capital last hosted the Games, Britain's only surviving gold medal winner has described how it felt competing in the first post-war Olympics in 1948. Sporting hero Mr Bond, now 90, claimed gold as one half of the Swallow class sailing team - having taken unpaid leave from work to compete in the Games his bosses barely cared about.
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David Bond, 90, was one half of medal-winning sailing team 64 years ago
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He tells how holidaymakers in Britain did not even know 1948 Games were going on
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