AMATEUR STATUS
CONTROVERSY REVIVED PAYMENT FOR LOST TIME OSLO, Aug. 27. Lord Burghley was elected president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, succeeding M. Sigfried Edstroem, of Sweden, who is relinquishing the presidency at his own request. Mr E. J. Holt, of Britain, was elected secretary. The federation after a bitter discussion, postponed until 1948 a decision to amend the rules to permit payment for broken time to athletes in all international contests. The federation,
on the suggestion of the British delegates, decided to refer the whole amateur question to a special commission for report to the London meeting on January 1, 1948, in connection with the Olympics. The Swedish delegate announced that Sweden intended paying compensation to athletes. This was against the rules, but “we shall do it,” said the delegate. He added that an athfete who was a family provider -must be compensated against the loss of wages. The Swedish stand was supported by Norway, Depmark. Jugoslavia. Hungary, Finland, and Portugal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26242, 28 August 1946, Page 5
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