Organisers admit error
NZPA-Reuter Calgary The confusion surrounding the schedule for the Olympic ice hockey tournament took a new twist yesterday when Games’ organisers admitted they had released an original match programme in error. A blueprint issued at the start of the Games on February 13 indicated Sweden, as Pool B runners-up, should meet Pool A winners, the Soviet Union, in the first match of the medal round today with Canada playing West Germany.
But at a news conference, the International Olympic Committee (1.0. C. sports director, Walter Troeger, issued a revised schedule which showed Canada playing the Soviets today in prime North American television time.
“A key decision is that Canada is the host country ... and the hockey tradition of Canada against the Soviet Union is very strong. We want this featured,” said George Kingston, the Calgary organising committee hockey chairman.
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Press, 25 February 1988, Page 32
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