Hockey power play
NZPA London Britain’s leading hockey players will press the sport’s administrators to reverse their decision to boycott the Moscow Olympics. Heartened by the success of the British rowing squad in getting the Amateur Row-: ing Association to support; the games in -spite of earlier! support for a boycott, the hockey squad is to try its ■ own player power. ■'
i Hockey is the only sport »i to have made a positive : I decision against participat- ; ing at Moscow although four; .others — including swimming and yachting — have ; jnot yet finalised- their postil tions. All the other sports in-< Evolved in the summer games ’have now voted to compete in the games in defiance of ' the Government’s wishes.
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Press, 28 March 1980, Page 26
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