No change to Games selection
GV.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. There will be no change in the system of selection of New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams in the immediate future. A move by athletes to change the existing selection system was overwhelmingly rejected at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association asked that Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams be selected by the individual sports concerned without interference from the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association. However the motion was lost by 57 votes to 11, but not after considerable discussion and debate. The existing selection system is a “two-tier” one in which sports nominate competitors and then these nominations are considered for final approval by a threeman O. and C.G.A. selection panel. This “two-tier” system came in for a great deal of criticism after the 1974 Commonwealth Games where the panel rejected eight competitors nominated by their individual sports. The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee handed over a cheque for $120,000 to the O. and C.G.A. as part payment of the profit from the last Games. The total profit payable is $246,000.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33804, 29 March 1975, Page 22
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192No change to Games selection Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33804, 29 March 1975, Page 22
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