Green Grow The Swimmers, O
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, Sept 9. Australian competitors at the Tokyo Olympic Games next month will be wearing the country’s traditional green blazers as they march around the athletic stadium on opening day. For the later events in the same stadium they
will be wearing the traditional green shorts and white tops. But in the swimming pool things will be different There, thanks to modern chemistry, Australia’s male representatives will be appearing in all green. At Ayr, in Queensland, where the swimmers have been training for the Olympics, pool attendants have had to put extra quantities of copper sul-
phate In the water to help keep it pure. Soot from the burning of nearby sugar-cane fields has made it imperative, but it means that the swimmers, now have green hair, green ears, with green tints also showing on their chests and backs. As one columnist puts It: “Our team by next month could look like the first entry from Mars.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 19
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