Games View Defended
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Mr Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, has defended his view that Olympic winter games in their present shape should be abolished or at least reshaped to get rid of “commercialism.”
Mr Brundage said bn Sunday that most people round the world had no opportunity to practise winter sports. “Olympic winter games therefore were created in spite of considerable disapproval. However, now the problem is mainly that they have become too successful and have grown to enormous proportions,” Mr Brundage said.
“In France last year we experienced that the Olympic winter games, in fact, were organised in five different cities. The winter games programme has also become too big.”
W.E.A. Maori Club. Officers elected at the recent annual meeting of the W.E.A. Maori dub were: Patron, Mr D. G. Clark; president, Mrs E. Walters; vicepresident, Mrs Klebb: secre-tary-treasurer, Mrs P. Adcobk; committee, Mesdames K. Jackson, J. Foley, H. Counihan, Messrs R. Te Whenua, D. Klells.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31942, 20 March 1969, Page 12
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