Rhodesia Drops Games Plans
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copgripht) BULAWAYO.
Rhodesia had dropped plans to send a team to the Olympic Games in Mexico City, a leading Rhodesian Olympics official said yesterday.
Mr Douglas Downing, president of the National Olympic Committee of Rhodesia, said in a statement: “In accepting enforced exclusion from the 1968 Mexican Olympics we express the hope that Interference—authorised or assumed—by the United Nations in the affairs of the international Olympic movement will not create that type of unity between sportsmen which exists between nations.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31772, 31 August 1968, Page 14
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