Due to the Apartheid government and international pressure, South Africa had been exiled from international sports competitions for almost a decade and Miss Pellegrini, alongside great tumblers like Tseko Mogotsi, was making history by being one of the first competitors to join the South African national team, to receive Springbok Colours and to represent her country on an international platform.
Tassilo Pellegrini | Carlo Pellegrini | Aldo Pellegrini | Thalia Pellegrini | Nicola Pellegrini | Daniella Ohad Smith | "The painstaking Irishman"
As depicted by "Ape" (Carlo Pellegrini | Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini | Nicolino Pellegrini | Ines Pellegrini | "Hull". Caricature by Carlo Pellegrini | Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini | Federica Pellegrini | Daniella Álvarez |
Birkbeck as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
Jenkinson as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
Forster as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini
As caricatured by Carlo Pellegrini