As the London 2012 Olympics Games comes to a close, and we celebrate Australia's highs and lows of the Games, the 702 Breakfast team uncovered a heart-warming story with a difference involving an Aussie spectator, an urn of ashes, and a 1948 London Olympics connection.

Australians are known for their larrikinism the world over.

So the story of Robyn Glynn, her father's ashes, and the Triple Jump track at London 2012 should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Aussies.

It would make anyone proud!

As Adam Spencer discovered this morning, Robyn Glynn left Sydney last week with her sister and family - including the ashes of her late father, who happens to be a silver medal winning former-Olympic athlete.

George Avery, born in Morree in 1925, competed at the last London Olympics in 1948, and after attending the Olympics in 2000, decided with his daughter Robyn and her sisters, that he would return to the site of his own Olympics glory in 2012.

"We decided in 2000 that we were going to bring my father back here,' Robyn told Adam, 'but unfortunately he passed away a few years ago.'

So my sister and myself, our husbands, our daughter and our grandchildren came with his ashes... and he's here with us as we watch the Triple Jump."

When Adam spoke to Robyn on-air, she was at the Olympic Stadium, having just seen the Triple Jump and the great Usain Bolt run in the 200m final.

But Robyn admitted to Adam that she had done more than just bring her Dad to the Games.

"Actually, we did more than sneak him in, we snuck ourselves down to the edge of the track and in the breeze we let his ashes go and they went right over the Triple Jump track!"

It's a far cry from the Olympics Games her Dad would have seen in the 1940s.

"In those days, travelling to the Olympics was quite primitive, and it took them three weeks to fly here, and the plane broke down thirteen times.

"By the time they got here, a lot of them ended up sick and rundown, and my Dad ended up with pneumonia."

Originally planning to compete in both the Long Jump and the Triple Jump, when he was released from hospital George was told to choose only one event - and Triple Jump won.

Not that Robyn or her sister's knew how successful their Dad was when they were growing up.

"I didn't even know he was an Olympian until I was about 12! The medal was in a drawer, and Dad decided that it was time that we started Little Athletics... and it was after that we realised what he'd done and what he'd achieved. But he never really made a big deal of it."

Later in life, when George became more "famous" for what he achieved, and he began to attend a lot of events for the 2000 Olympics and spoke at schools.

And now the story has come full circle, with George's ashes mixed in with the sand and sweat of the Triple Jump track at London Olympics 2012.

"We decided that this is where he would have wanted to come back to."