OLYMPIC GAMES.
AUSTRALIAN -REASONS FOR DEFEAT. By Tclosraph-Press Association-Copyright Sydney, September It. Several of Ihe athletes who took pai-t in tho Olympic Games have returned. Wnley, coxswain of the Olympic Eight, attributes the Australian crew's defeat at Stockholm to the unfair course. Had it been a straight one, he says, tho Australians would have won by a length, notwithstanding the fact that tho crew had not quite, the same dash ns at Henley. In a race of such importance there should be no advantage for either crew.
Hill, the long-distnnco champion, considers it: necessary that athletes sent to future Games should bo at least three months in the visited country before bring aslied to compote. He is confident that if an English team of amateur athletes visited Australia or Now Zealand they would suffer defeat.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1546, 16 September 1912, Page 5
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135OLYMPIC GAMES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1546, 16 September 1912, Page 5
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