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Start of a new life. World-ranked butterfly and freestyle swimmer Marcel Gery, who defected from Czechoslovakia last week, poses outside the home of a(...)
Start of a new life. World-ranked butterfly and freestyle swimmer Marcel Gery, who defected from Czechoslovakia last week, poses outside the home of a(...)

Start of a new life. World-ranked butterfly and freestyle swimmer Marcel Gery, who defected from Czechoslovakia last week, poses outside the home of a(...)

Date10/5/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Start of a new life. World-ranked butterfly and freestyle swimmer Marcel Gery, who defected from Czechoslovakia last week, poses outside the home of a friend in Richmond Hill yesterday with his wife, Michaela.
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