FILE PHOTO: Born on April 20, 1938: Betty Cuthbert, Australia Sprinter Australia's Betty Cuthbert carries the Olympic Torch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne June 5, 2004. Cuthbert returns to the MCG some 48 years after winning gold in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. REUTERS/David Callow
SYDNEY (Reuters) - There have been many 'Golden Girls' over the history of the Olympics but for Australia, sprinter Betty Cuthbert remains the original and the best.
In nine days in late 1956, teenager Cuthbert came from almost nowhere to win three sprint gold medals and become the face of what were remembered as the "Friendly Games", the first to be held in the southern hemisphere.
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