“SIT-IN” OFF
Australia's athletes called! off their “sit-in” at the main! 'Commonwealth Games stadium yesterday. “At an athletics team| executive meeting we de-[ jcided that we would not; yvish to be the cause of any; general disruption,” the team coach, Mr Clive Lee. said, i The team had considered a; !"sit-in” at a section of the; main grandstand used by I technical officials and theirfamilies. Mr Lee said that it was a !“ludricous” arrangement! that athletes should have toi battle for seats in various! open sections under the sun. Instead, the athletes might sit in the grandstand “and see if they would throw us out.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 10
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