A Bag of Flour Cost Vic Naismith an Olympic Chance. So How Did He Still End Up at the Games?
Vic Naismith was a Richmond ruckman and a serious javelin thrower who had pushed himself close to the Melbourne Olympics. Then ordinary working life intervened.
Naismith was a baker. A 150-pound bag of flour slipped while he was handling it and damaged the shoulder he needed to throw. His Olympic path appeared to be gone.
Yet one of the stranger Richmond artefacts from 1956 is a green Olympic football guernsey that eventually found its way back to the club museum. The line between the workplace accident and that jumper is where the story becomes extraordinary.
It also opens a window onto an era when a senior VFL footballer could work through the night, travel across Melbourne and still be expected to perform at the highest level.
How did a bag of flour remove one Olympic opportunity and still leave a Richmond footballer inside the same Games?
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