OLYMPIC GAMES.
THE TORCH RELAY. ATHENS, July 18. Large crowds a.re expected to be present at the lighting of the Olympic torch. The King of Greece will not attend, but will watch a special ceremony at the stadium at Athens. A cavalcade of charabancs and motors will follow the relay runners, who will be given a civic welcome at a. host of Greek towns until they jeacli the frontier. THE BRITISH TEAM. LONDON, Julv 19. A brother and sister are unprecedently included in the Olympiad with the inclusion of Miss A. Brown, sister of A. G. K. Brown, as a sprinter in the British women’s Olympic Games team, after gaining third place in the British hundred metres. SPANISH OLYMPIAD. OPPOSITION CONTEST. BARCELONA, July 18. Seven thousand athletes from most countries, including the United States, are participating in a. “People’s Olympiad” as a replv to Nazi propaganda in connection with the Olympic Games. The exhibition grounds are to be transformed into a sportsmen’s city. France is sending over a thousand athletes and the Soviet a. hundred, which is the largest team ever sent out of Russia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 20 July 1936, Page 7
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185OLYMPIC GAMES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 20 July 1936, Page 7
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