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The true spirit of the Olympic Games still prevails today
By JOHN COTTRELL
Cynics may sneer at sham-amateurism in many sports. They may decry the idea that the Olympic Games promote international good will,
Yet believe that the true spirit of the Games prevails today almost as much as it did half a century ago when the founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, first stated that: "The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.
Of course, there are State alded athletes in the Communia University- countries und
the athletes in sponsored United States. Of course, every Olymple competitor dreams of winning that coveted gold medal,
Sacrifice
But, ret and foremost, it is The dream of taking part in the Games which is the spur Fur this end, the majority of the 7,000 competitors in Rome have sacrificed their leisure hours for months, often years, to dedicate themselves to intense training Some have even turned down ternating uffer from the pro- fessional world in the hope of taking the road to Rome,
Above all the spirit of the Olymplex is exemplified by those who have miraculously conquered physical disabilities to achieve the high standards demanded at the Games. Ray Ewry, the American standing Jumper who won the
CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
Here is an ending from actual play: White to move and win.
record number of elidit Olympic ful running style that one would gold medals, was no weak us a never suspect that he had once child, that the doctors doubted, been wrippled by polio.
the fabulous Even
Herb whether he would live And there are plenty of ex-Invalids Elliott, strongest or middle dis- te be found among the superb tance runners, was thought to be crippled for life whon a pinno alldeles now in Rome,
erished his foot.
The American Hal Connolly,' world champlon ham mèr- thrower, defends the Olymple title he won in Melbourne. He has a withered left arm which has been broken five times and which is more than four inches shorter than his right orın.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1960.
Is she the greatest woman athlete?
By ARCHIE QUICK
Stella Walsh, "Babe” Didrikson or Fanny Blankers. Koen. Who was the greatest woman athlete over to take part in the Olympic Games? The Pole, the American or the Dutchwoman?
Now the haustrau of a suc- cessful Rotterdam business man and the mother of three child- ren. Mra Blankers-Koon set
ber the seal upon
greatness
Bob Mathias thinks Formosa's C.K. Yang can win the Olympic decathlon
By. OSCRA FRALEY
Rome, Aug. 29. Five years ago when two-time Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathias was on a U.S. State Department tour he gave a clinic for some two doxen wide-eyed young mon on the island of Formosa.
She was ahead for three fences, and then Fanny, on the inside lane and with a wildly excited B0,000 crowd ila seot ste gradually overhauled the L01- whey she won four gold medals dones and won by perhaps six They were a silent, earnest lot, and they listened attentively as
inches. They were both given the same Ume of 11.2 seeS-A new Olympic record, and the same time as the world figures. Tragic
BL the Wembley Olymple Games of 1948.
She set up a new Olyinple reed for the 100 metres, then won the newly-instituted 200 metres from a world field by quite seven yards, equalled the world record in taking the 80 metres hurdles and then Wix the sole factor in the Dulch the [our relay team winning times 100 metres race,
And I have little doubt that If she had been allowed to enter the high jump and long jump for which at that me slie was the world rear holder she would have won them jog--for six gold medals;
Unnoticed
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In the subsequent relay inCE, Mrs Blankers-Keen, with three
Mathias gave them tips on the various track and field events which compose the decathlon and ther demonstrated his
prowess-until it came to the high jump.
Mathias leaped over the bar at "golda" alrendy In her poss-six feet. So dild one of the sion, brought the Dutch tean young men altending the clinic. from fourth to first place as she | Muthius cleared it at six feet Tan
tive Jast stage—n truly one. So did his observer. Kangy magnificent performance for a Bob hitched up his pants and mother of thirty years of age. cleared six feet twa, the highest
he ever jumped in his career.
in 1050 and 1931 she added two more world recards to her long list of successes in the 220 yards and, of all things, the five-event Pentathien
Pop-eyed
The young man sailed over it easily and went right on sull- Ing over it as Mathina watched from the sidelines until he clear-j ; . Then, although another loured six feet six inches.
years older, she was chosen for the Helsinki Olymples. gol through two rounds of the 100 to retire metres and then had
blood Infection. Sul with Ill she would not let her 80 metres hurdles tille go by de- fault, and actually equalled her 11. aces Wembley time! Âus- tralia's Shirley Strickland, how- ever, did 11 secs, but Fanny woR her semi-Anai.
Now It was Malhiss who was pop-eyed,
*Gert Rumamber, tou, that Potgieter, South African holder of the world quarter-mile hurdles records, broke his neck in a rugby match three years
The first we had seen of her prior to
his record-breaking-in fact, she passed practically
unnoticed-was
at the 1930 performance. But he came back
Gameg to smash the world record and
In Berlin when win the Empire Htle.
Miss Fanny Koen she tied for Polio victim
sixth place in the high Jump at Tragically, Potgieter
inct with Ave fect one Dectors despaired of saving | severtly injured in a car crash
Australian and un the Ite of New Zealander on the eve of the current Olym- American Murray Halberg following a
acquainted That was the event almost won pies. "But no one
Miss Dorothy ruby injury ten years ago.wil this lion-hearted Springbok Later they told his parents he detective believes that he will Odams, now Mrs Tyler,
She took two hurdles, and then Today, as Mathias walked would survive but that he would accept this as final defeat,
Twelve years went by, and a Who
whother such War with it. Mis Koen spent pale and disconsolate, she stop-through the Olymple Village, he be a semi-invalid for the rest of his life.
Today, courageous Halberg is the Emplie three-mile cham- plon and he has battled his way to Rome despite a withered left are and shoulder,
At the age of five Peter Rad- ford was struck down with a kidneys which disease of the can kill or cripple a person fer 1}le, For two years
he was confined to a wheelchair and wi- able to walk
Now Radford is in Rome-s England's fastest-ever sprinter, Jon Konradu, on a Latvian stricken with refuger, was polio. He went on to hold six wimming world free-style records at the same time and now he is Australia's grantest gold medal hope at the Olym-
pics.
Even Elliott
As boy. Norman Read was an invalid with a curvature of the spine. He could not gain n place in Britain's Olymple team four years ago, but that did not stop him competing in the Grimes. He went to New Zealand, represented that country at Mel- Olympic Hi, 2 Q-83, K-BI; 3 Kt-bourne-and won the Q6 mate. If 1 K-Bd: 2 ¦ 50,000 metres walk. KI-Q6. K-B3; 3 Q-B3 mate,
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Mal Spence, South Africa's 400 metres hope, has such a beauti-
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The Final was an anti-clanax.
"Holy smokes," he told the young man, "you can jump. If you tried some of the other events you'd make a terrifie decathlon man."
That was Ave years ago.
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"But don't spend !! yet," Mathias warned. “If Johnson has one had event and if Kuznetsov Isn't, in the great- est shape of his Me, Yang with win this thing sure."
is known #fTec- Yang, who tionately lo his friends "C.K," look Mathlas' advice and turned up in the United States where he went to schoòi at UCLA,
has heavily- merled legs and
sort of sunken chested appearance but, Mathing worn, the 27-year-old Taiwan athlete has been work- ing with weights to improve the strength in bils upper body and with the proper breaks can win.
Protest on Olympic fencing rule
Several
Rome, Aug. 28, nations Protested
new
strongly ipday shout a ruling
claimed which they prevented thele top fencem from competing in the men's Irullvidunt fatt championship..
The Olympic Committee, at a special meeting held 24 hours A bit weak
before the championship started "He's a bit weak in the shot this morning, ruled that no and discus, admitted Mathias substitutes would be allowed. who won the Olympic decathlon They also said that where there championship as a 17-year-old were mate entries than the in the London Games of 1948 three competitors allowed from four years later cach nation, they would have to Helsinki, "But I he's ready be accepted in their and repeated
inter-
glante of amateur sport devole the time in occupied Holland.ped at the third fence and walk- said: "I will bet you 8,000 Jire for the 1,500 metres and high national licenco atimber order.
to training
and then burst upon. a gaping ed away! I was trigle, but it that this fellow wins the Olym too much time
of subsidy,athletic world by breaking the did not expunge the memory of ple decathlon. And you can have receive some kind
the rest of the field," her 1918 supremacy. These men of indomitable spirit nishing tape at Wembley on compete for the love of the sportro less than eleven occasions nol for financial gain, And for four Anais four semi-finals and
to qualify three heats, that is enough them as true amateurs,
SPORTRAIT
"They should be a good runner-personally redom- mended to me by Gordon
Pirte-
London preas, Servi04.
in
The 80 metres hurdles was
Тасса of the ent alla Those memorable 1948 Gamas North London at the great stadia. and Mrs Blanker- Koen's
rivat
Britain's winsome Maureenl Gardner, now the wife of the chle! ^^A Douch
Dyson
Maureen had
looked
com
right
out of form in the semi-drals when she just struggled into third place to qualify.
How different in the Final:
Four D. Jones (OKAY BY. MADDOCKS
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He wasn't talking about world record holder Rafer Johnson, the U.S. nor about formier world record holder Vassily Kuznetsov of Russia, who generally is con- sidered to be Johnson's main Combined threat in the gruelling 10-event man-killer which runs over two tinys.
South
Koreans Chinore at Caroline Hi11, .30 pm
Dowl Open Pals semi-finals matches at it and Recreio, 4 pea.
Iboration Shield: KGC v KCC. 3 pm.
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Colway Mixed matches at Recreio, KBGC, KCC, PRC, HKFC, JRC. FKCC. 6.29 pin.
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HERC v Stanley Chit (Cavendish Helghia), 5 pro.
jumps up to his normal of six feet six inches or belter, he'll be This hit the Australian team tough to bent."
tore them any other, as they Johnson's world record, laxi entered six foilists, plarning apprayed yesterday is 8,683 to choose the top three on eur polnik. Yang's top mark is rent fort, the rule meant they
the 8.426 points—a deficit of 25 went into championships without their top swordsmen, Z., points.
Okaly and D. McKenzie,
a
he "But remember, when made that mark, Yang had bad leg and only high-jumped five feet, 10 inches," Mallilas
Later, Hungary and several other notions also protested, Committee and the Olympic which changed their minds, saying points are graduated steeply as they would permit countries to
"Henominate their best fencers. broken was too late for the men's in-
foll he dividual
championships, but which had already started, will apply in all other events.
He was pleking the fellow said of the event in who beal hire in the high-jump that day in Formosa a fel performances
well low named Chuan-kwiing Yang
Such a bet naturally was mapped up like a leaf of lettuce in a rabbit warren.
MEANWHILE THE CRAVON JONES IS REALLY} [OH YOU LIVING DOLL! LIVING IT UP...
increase.
have might Johnson's world record it had been right. And he just might do it right here in the Olymples."-UFI.
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