Knock-out blow for Rackley
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. The Nelson boxer, Jeff Racklei', said yesterday he “would never fight as an amateur again,” after missing selection for the New Zealand Olympic team.
Although Rackley, the No. 1 boxing nomination, was left out, the other two nominations, Robert Colley and David Jackson, were named in the team on Monday night. “It means that either the Olympic committee is displeased with me, that I’ve been a bad' boy, or the spokesman for boxing has cut my throat. “It’s the old stab-in-the-back trick,” said Rackley. Mr Brian O’Brien, boxing’s advocate to the Olympic selection panel, denied, however, that he had spoken against Rackley. “As the boxing advocate, I was not empowered to make any suggestions to the Olympic selectors,” said Mr O’Brien. “The Games selectors made it plain from the start that they were not interested in selecting Jeff Rackley and if the top nomination is not picked, those below him aren’t either.
“Tlie Olympic pane! asked me if I had the power to agree to them re-grading the boxers and I informed them that the New Zealand Boxing Association had given me that power.”
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34128, 14 April 1976, Page 40
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