OLYMPIC GAMES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 6

OLYMPIC GAMES

The Final Events CLOSING CEREMONY SPECTACULAR COMPETITION IMPRESSIVE SCENES PLACES OF THE NATION (Alist, and N.Z. Cable) Los A navies. Any. 14 The tenth Olympic Games festival concluded at tlie Olympic- Stadium today, a feature of the closing ceremonies* being a spectacular o. pies trian jumping <-o.i.petition known us the Prix ties Nations. Lieut. Baron Nishi, Japan, won the individual honours. All four contesting nations* teams for the championship were disqualified. ; The closing programme, before 90.000 people, was impressive. It Included parading the flags of the victorious nations and tlx- ceremonies of lowering and presenting the Olympic flag to the City of Los Angeles and extinguishing the Olympic ’torch. THE POINTS The uuofficial point standing, based on ten points for first place, five for second, four for third, three for fourth, two'tOr'--fifth and one for sixth, is as under

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