Addition To Games Team
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. A former Wellington cyclist J. Kuiper, now living in Holland, has been added to the cycling section of the New Zealand team for the Mexico City Olympic Games as mechanic-masseur.
Kuiper recently acted as manager of a Dutch team which competed in Britain. The New Zealand association will meet all the additional costs.
Kuiper has ridden for both the Wellington and Auckland centres and his best performance was fourth in the national 100-mlle road race in 1963.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 5
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85Addition To Games Team Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31764, 22 August 1968, Page 5
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