Mock Games sad - Tass
NZPA-Reuter • Moscow The Soviet News agency Tass has dismissed as a “silly farce,” home-grown mock Olympics to be staged soon in the town of Moscow, Tennessee.
The “alternative games” would include an “Olympic torch” brought from Athens, Tennessee, ceremonies mocking those at regular Olympics, and competitive events such as spitting and fryingpan throwing. “The tomfoolery in Tennessee would deserve a laugh, it’d be funny — if it weren’t so sad, weren’t linked with a campaign started by the White House Administration against the summer Olympic Games,” Tass said.
“It remains only to sympathise with the American athletes who have become victims of politicians.”
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Press, 9 June 1980, Page 8
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