OLYMPIC GAMES

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 3

OLYMPIC GAMES

ALLGERMANY TEAM TO COMPETE (N.Z. Press Association —Copyrlaft.tr HINTERZARTEN, August 28. Members of the East and West German Olympic committees have agreed to choose all-German teams to represent the whole country in next year’s Olympic Games in Melbourne. The teams will be chosen on the basis of performance. Some details have still not been agreed on and will be the subject of further discussions in East Berlin on November 12 and 13. The East and West German participants will still be separate in many respects. The Eastern and Western committees will remain in being and will each be responsible for their own competitors. Different national anthems will be played for German individual victors according to whether they come from East or West Germany. But the team will have a common black, red, and gold flag and will wear the same uniform. Mr Ritter von Halt, president of the West German Olympics Committee, said the meeting took place in an atmosphere of good will. In the last Olympic Games only West Germany Was represented. East Germany was recently admitted into the International Olympic Committee on condition that an all-German team was constituted for next year’s games. BRITAIN WILL SEND WATER POLO TEAM (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. Britain will send a water polo team to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, a meeting of the Amateur Swimming Association decided in Blackpool yesterday. "We have a top flight team.” the secretary of the International Water Polo Board (Mr E. J. Scott) said. “During the last 12 months we have not been defeated in any unofficial international match.” Mr Harold Fern, treasurer of the British Olympics Committee, said: “It is already highly doubtful whether the contemplated £7500 needed to cover the whole of the British contingent will be reached.” An appeal will be made to every district and club in Britain for contributions.