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the arrest or

K. Krupin, leader of the
Soviet team which was in Lon-
don to compete against Brit-
ish athletes at a White City
meet, told reporters his ath-

letes regarded the arrest as

a “dirty provocation” aimed
at slandering a world famous
sportswoman.

let’s say
; a teacher
a doctar, she
and could

NINA PONOMAREVA

a dozen hats. So

nec n ord-
I srupt British - Soviet
sports relations.

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frar 1 her,

And how did you react,
Krupin? Why, you did the
le, and call-

worst thing p le,
1 f , just what
he p ( wanted.

W hen Moscow Lokomotivs
toured Canada, a few anti-
Seviet jerks made feeble de-
monstrations against them and
tossed out some foul leaflets.
And when Russian farm del-
egates, and Russian church-
men visited our country’ a
while back, a handful of pro-
vocateurs were around to give
them the raspberry. But the
farmers and the clergymen
didn’t pack up in a huff and
ery “Foul ball.” They ignored
the bums and earried_on.
» Cancelling of the Anglo-
1es Caused deep re-
thousands of fans
k ickets for the
ing event. It doubt-
provocateurs

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and

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friendly relations
and develop
Of course,

Not. that
won’t continue,
as time goes by.
that will happen.

But Krupin’s regrettable ac-
ion, plus Nina’s failure to ap-
pear in court (as she should
have done) can’t be condoned
from where I sit.

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And while I’m on the sub-
ject of sportsmanship, it seems
obvious that the. Hungarian
Olympic officials could stand
a lesson or three.

Their action in withdrawing

the Hungarian soccer team
from coming competition at

Melbourne because of “chang-
es in the management of the
team and the results of inter-
national competition this year”
is quite inexcusable.

Haven’t the Hungarian au-
thorities ever heard that the
purpose of the Olympic Games
is to take part in international
amateur competition not
necessarily to win?

Last week an analytical ar-
ticle in the PT discussed the
crisis in Hungarian _ soccer.
Gustav Sebes, the coach of the
national team, has. been re-
placed by a committee of five.
Sebes was said to be respon-

sible for “the downward
trend” in soccer — the team
won only one international
match this season.

Whether Sebes was solely

responsible I don’t know—but
if the decision to withdraw
from the Olympics was made
by the five-man committee, all
Hungarian soccer fans should
hope for a reversal of the de-
cision.
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And here at home, one Mike
Geoghegan, a hard rock miner
from Campbell River, swam
from there to Powell River
and now plans a 32-mile swim
from Nanaimo to Vancouver.

The Black Ball ferry will
blackball Mike if he isn’t care-
ful.

MIKE GEOGHEGAN

wie SSeS es

Swimming coach To

mmy Walker
female splashers who will accompany him to Melbourne for the Olympic
fall. The girls (from left) are Sara Barber, Beth Whittall, Gladys

Grant, Irene MacDonald and Helen Stewart.

Melbourne prepares for hug
influx of Olympic visitors

Melbourne ,the garden-studden city on the quiet River Yarra, is
for the greatest influx ‘of visitors in Australia’s history. In late Novembet ~
summer on this continent ‘‘down under’ the Equator — the city that has PF
such sportsmen as miler John Landy, swimmer John Marshall, tennis stat

Sedgman and golfer Peter Thomson will become a centre of world atten

16th Olympiad gets under
way.

The CBC is planning cover-
age of the Olympic Games in
the form of two 15-minute
radio reports each day of, the
16-day sports. festival which
begins November 22. Exten-
sive TV film coverage will be
flown to Canada.

A number of Australian
Olympic Games committees
have been working for months
on the- details of everything
ranging from ticket sales to
housing and hospitality. One
of the visible signs of their

activity is a $8,400,000 .con-
struction program in Mel-
bourne to expand existing

sports facilities as the country
prepares to receive the sym-
bolic flame kindled in Olym-
pia, Greece, which is being
carried for the first time into
the Southern Hemisphere.
One of the main construc-
tion jobs involves enlarging
the seating capacity of the
Main Stadium of the Mel-
bourne Cricket Ground just
outside the city’s business

centre and the scene of the’

Games ceremonial opening
and closing as well as eight
days of athletic events.
Normally able to accom-
modate 90,000 spectators, one
of the grand-stands is being

DIANE MATHESON
Canada’s sprint champ

rebuilt as a new triple-deck
steel -and-concrete stand to

provide for 20,000 more people. '

Nearby is Port Phillip Bay,
which will be the scene of all
the Olympic yachting events.
This almost landlocked 1720
square miles of water is ideal
for boating, for it is free from
reefs, tidal streams and curr-
ents.

The Olympic rowing events

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