BAN ON CYCLIST

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 252, 21 July 1938, Page 17

BAN ON CYCLIST

When Does Bond Expire?

Reference to the two-year disqualification imposed by the New Zealand Amateur Cycling Association tliis week on the Olympic cyclist, G. R. Giles, and the declaration of Mr. J. M. Coffey. Christchurch, vice-chairman of the New Zealand Cycling Federation, that the ban was void, wqs made yesterday by Mr. H. McCormick, chairman of the Olympic and Empire Games Association. Mr. McCormick said that Giles was disqualified for two years as from April 16, 1938, at a special meeting of the New Zealand Cycling Association, for breaking the bond he had entered into with the Olympic Association when he was selected for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. The bond provided that he would not turn professional for two years after his return to New Zealand. Giles had broken Tiis bond by competing as a professional at Otorohanga on April 16, 1938. Giles had inadvertently been misinformed, added Mr. McCormick, having been told that his. undertaking to the Olympic Association expired in Novemb<nv 1937, instead of the correct date of October 2, 1938, which terminated the two-year period from the end of the Games. However, Giles knew perfectly well that there had to be a two-year break before he could turn professional. What he did not know was whether the period was reckoned from the time of leaving New Zealand or from his time of re.turnjng to the country. He must have known that the date of November, 1937, was wrong.