AMATEUR SPORT
4 DANGER OF OLYMPIADS. (Rec. July 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 22. The committee of Amateur Rowing Association, in a conference with representatives of the universities, the Henley regatta, and provincial rowers, passed a resolution that organised international athletic competitions like the Olympiads, entailing a vast expenditure, are entirely contrary to the true spirit of amateur sport, and will endanger, instead of fostering, friendly relations with international contestants, owing to the exaggerated importance attached to victories therein. The conference decided not to support the British Olympic Association, offering instead itself to arrange yoaasional friendly contests open to British and foreign amateurs. The conference also refused to alter tho present definition of amateur.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 257, 25 July 1921, Page 5
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