3:50, Snell At Best
(N.Z. Pr«M Axociation) AUCKLAND. P. G. Snell, at his greatest could have broken 3min SOsec for the mile, bad he been faced with the intense competition of the international mile at Auckland on Wednesday night said the Kenyan, Kipchoge Keino. “Snell had the ability to stay with a fast early pace and was so strong that he could race away from the world’s greatest runners over the final 300 yards," said Keino. Jurgen May, of East Germany, who won. the mile in 3mln M.lsec, equalling Snell’s best time, said that when he saw Snell race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo he considered him invincible.
Olympic bowing.—Report! that rowing may be dropped from the 1968 Olympic Games because ot the lack of an adequate course have been denied by the Mexican Olympics Committee.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 19
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