OLYMPIC GAMES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 33, 2 November 1928, Page 17

OLYMPIC GAMES

FINANCIAL RESULTS (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Amsterdam, October 31. The Olympic Committee announces that Olympiad receipts totalled £118,700, of which lootball produced £45,000, athletics £26,200, swimming £!)i!00, cycling £5OOO, and rowing £2OOO. Tlie opening day produced £7900. Tlie total expenses are not yet available, but it is believed there will be a slight profit. BRITISH EMPIRE TEAMS IMPROVING. Prior to. the recent Olympic Gnmcs, Mr. H. hr. Abrahams, manager of the British team, and winner of the 100 metres at the 1924 Games, expressed the opinion that England’s team was the best ever sent to the Gaines. On his return from Amsterdam recently he said that lie

saw no reason to amend or revise that opinion in any shape or form. Referring to wliat lie said had been foolishly termed the American "failure” at Amsterdam, he pointed out that the United States had only dropped from twenty-four to twenty-two places. ‘T’ersonally, I saw no failure at all,” lie remarked. “’rite only reason that the American figures got lower and lower towards the close is, I think, that they overestimated their own performances and under-estimated those of the British Empire and other nations. In the field events the Americans did every bit as welLas they have ever done. I think they were over-coached, but I think that the nonsense that has been talked about their feeding is pure and simple nonsense. The explanation is the very simple one that they met better opponents.”