DIXON TO STAY
s Games hid first 8 1 (N.Z. Press Association) J NELSON. “ The Nelson runner, R. I Dixon, has refused an athletic scholarship to New Mexico University in preference to trying for selection in the New Zealand team to compete in the Olympic Games next year. Dixon has been named among the 41 athletes on the long list of prospects for the . Munich Games. . If he accepted the fouri. year scholarship to New e Mexico University he might u jeopardise his chances of a . place in the New Zealand team, Dixon said. Also, in America he would jibe running indoors, which he r had never done before. j Dixon, a 21-year-old insurjiance agent, represented New 3 Zealand early this year in Europe with the cross-coun-t|try team. s He will probably try for the . Olympic team in the 1500 I metres, but is also considering the 5000 metres and the J 3000 metres steeplechase, t Dixon said he would ask » the university if the scholarj ship would be available next year.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 24
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