Athletics INDONESIA REPROVED
Discrimination In Sport
(N Z P A .-Reuter— Copyright) BELGRADE, Sept. It. The International Amateur Athletics Federation yesterday "severely reprimanded” Indonesia for discrimination in sport. The action was taken following the exclusion of Formosa and Israel from the recent Asian Games in Djakarta. Earlier the LA.AF. council had proposed that the Indonesian Amateur Athletics Association be suspended for six months. The congress took no action against countries which participated in the field and track events at Djakarta. But it ruled that these events should not be included in the records as part of the Asian G-.mes. The Indonesian delegate to the congress (Mr Ragowal apologised to the Formosan and Israeli delegates
Book By Elliott (N.Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Sept. 18 The Australian miler. H. J Elliott, has left London by air for Moscow to meet Russia's Vladimir Kuts for talks on a book on athletics to be written by Elliott and the Melbourne Olympics steeplechase champion, C. Brasher, of England
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 21
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