Case #3: Gábor Benedek
On of the elected leaders of the Revolutionary committee was pentathlete Gábor Benedek (shown above). He had won a gold medal at the 1952 Olympics, and was the champion at the 1954 World Pentathlon Championships. When he returned to Hungary after Melbourne, Benedek was forced into retirement by the Hungarian Physical Education and Sport, and stripped of his privileges. By 1959 he was allowed to begin training young pentathletes, several of whom went on to have enormously successful careers. Benedek ended up defecting to West Germany in 1969.
[1] Freedom’s Fury, documentary, 2006.