Swimming body upset
The chairman of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association (Mr M. R. Duckmanton) is disappointed by a lack of response by other sports bodies to a suggestion that there be a later closing date for nominations for the Moscow Olympic team next year. In November last year the
association decided to write to other national associations involved in the Olympics to ask for their support to have the closing date extended from mid-April to mid-May next year. Mr Duckmanton said that several sports had indicated they were in favour of the later date and would support
swimming’s move, which was raised at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association last week. But when Mr Duckmanton raised the subject at the meeting it was met with disinterest.
“I was very disappointed to see the apathy of sports bodies to the suggestion,” he said. “The sports who said they supported it said nothing. Nobody spoke for or against it. It was as though no-one cared less.” Mr Duckmanton said that unless a move was made soon to have the dates changed it would be too late. The matter had been passed to the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association’s executive for a recommendation.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19790416.2.127
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, 16 April 1979, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
208Swimming body upset Press, 16 April 1979, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.