https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/iranian-soccer-players-seek-asylum-in-australia/news-story/a5374a200cb2129f6d9614d2312408e6

> Australia has experienced several high-profile cases of athletes seeking asylum while attending international sporting events.
> One of the earliest and most significant occurred during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, held shortly after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian uprising.
> In the aftermath, 61 Hungarian athletes, coaches and officials chose not to return home, making it one of the largest political defections in Olympic history and a powerful symbol of Cold War tensions.
We took the fellas