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Poland at the Olympics

• Poland first competed at the Olympic Games in 1924.

• Polish athlete Stanisława Walasiewicz (also known as Stella Walsh), won gold in the women's 100 m at the 1932 Summer Olympics in LA, and silver in the 100 m at the 1936 Olympics. After she was shot dead during an armed robbery in 1980, the subsequent autopsy revealed she possessed male body parts, although she also had female characteristics as well.

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