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The Olympic Games is a two-week smorgasbord of sports. But it’s not just the sporting action that makes the Olympics the Olympics – it’s the music too. Music features throughout the Games, in the ceremonies, the entrances and exits, the TV coverage and more besides. Marco Werman talks with The World’s Alex Gallafent who’s been trawling through the archives for examples, from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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