Rod Dixon ‘ashamed and angry’
PA staff corres Loud Rod Dixon, New Ze land’s Olympic 50t! metres gold medal hope has threatened never to wear the New Zealand black singlet again, according to the British newspaper “The Sun," yesterday.
Dixon says that the All Blacks' tour of South Africa has made the New Zealand athletes unpopular at the Olympics and that several have had threats to their lives, says the story, from John Sadler in Montreal.
“Dixon is angry with New Zealand Premier Robert Muldoon for giving his blessing to the All Blacks rugby tour,” he said, quoting the New Zealand runner as saying:
“I am only wearing the New Zealand singlet at the Games because I want to represent the rightthinking people of New Zealand and not the Government.”
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Press, 29 July 1976, Page 6
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