Mexico Now Target
(Special Crspdt. N.Z P A ) KINGSTON. R. A. Williams, who won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games decathlon on Saturday, hopes to compete in the Mexico Olympics in 1968, He said yesterday that this would now become the goal in his athletics career. In 1956 he had been nominated for the Melbourne Olympics, but was not selected, and again was not selected for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. He said that bia aim would be to achieve a decathlon points total of 7500. He won the Commonwealth gold medal .with a record score of 7270
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 16
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