“More Dignified” End To Games

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 10

“More Dignified” End To Games

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) MADRID. The president of the International Olympic Committee, Mr Avery Brundage, slated the Tokyo Olympic Games closing ceremony as “disorderly and undignified.”

Mr Brundage told the 1.0. C. meeting on Saturday that a commission had been appointed to study the order for the closing ceremony, to try and plan a more dignified closure. Mr Brundage said the 1.0. C. was “not happy” with the closing ceremony at Tokyo but he added the 1.0. C. approved the spirit of this type of closing ceremony—as it was first presented in Melbourne in 1956 —providing it was done in a dignified manner. Mr Brundage also announced that the 1.0. C. would choose the venues for the 1972 Olympic Games at its meeting tn Rome next year. Applications to stage the Games, both summer and winter, would have to be made four months before the 1.0. C. meeting. Award Of Cash Prizes Referring to cash prizes awarded in some sports, Mr Brundage said it was the intention of the 1.0 C. to see that no cash prizes were awarded in any sport, otherwise the competitor was ineligible for the Olympics When asked if equestrianism was included. Mr Brundage said

that all sports came under the ban, even if in the case of equestrianism it was the owner of the horse who got the prize. Several new swimming events were approved for the Mexico Games; Men: 200 metres freestyle, 100 metres backstroke and breaststroke, 100 metres butterfly and 200 metres individual medley. Women: 200 metres freestyle, 800 metres freestyle, 200 metres backstroke, 200 metres butterfly. 200 metres individual medley and 100 metres breaststroke Mr Brundage said that women’s volleyball would re main on the Olympic programme providing the number of men’s ana women’s teams competing did not exceed 16. He added that a proposal to tn elude women’s basketball on the programme was not approved. It was decided to increase the number of sports to 21 for thp 1972 Games, with judo, archery and handball included. Judo, included on the Olympic programme for the first time in Tokyo in 1964, was excluded for the 1968 Games in Mexico City.

The committee recommends the introduction of a “trimmer” sub-grade of two weight ranges in the frozen quarter beef for prime carcases otherwise unsuitable for the G.A.Q. grade. Beef in this sub-grade would need to be cut and trimmed for export. It recommends also that the board should examine the efficacy of the Southland percentage yield system, and subject to any necessary modifications, encourage such a yield system of buying, based on age. weight, and ‘cutability.’ with a view to its general adoption in 1967-68 season.