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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1960.
John Cottrell reviews the
Pago
17th Olympic Games RAMSEY HAS GIVEN IPSWICH
AN OUTSTANDING SUCCESS
London, Sept. 12. The 17th Olympic Games in Rome has been the costliest (over £10,000,000) and the most colossal (nearly 7,000 competitors re- presenting 2,000 mil-
Greatest of world jamborees in
entertainment value and
high quality performances
lion people) sporting gone a change of sex and that defent spectacle of modern times.
It has produced more shocks and sensations than any festival of sport in living mem-
Once ory.
again athletes have respond. ed to the Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius"-by smashing records in almost every event.
Superlatives
2/0
in a summary of Roman Games. But Games a ALECOSH?
compare favourıbbiy festivals of the past?
Inevitable the, 1900 were the
Do with
Too unwieldy
Britain's' athletics standards- are improving too, but they are not keeping pace with the rest of the world. Though
trany OXGUINCE have been offered, the basic explanation of the British failures is alms- vìr that their stars #FO xot good enough,
THE SPURS' TOUCH
'Do it simply, do it quickly, do it accurately'
There have been three great football managers in the postwar years-
Matt Busby, Stanley Cullis and Arthur Rowe.
The mark of Rowe is still upon Tottenham Hotspur although it is a de- cadé since he led them to successive Second and First Division Cham- pionships. The Cockney wing-half's imprint is already upon Crystal Palace, but, there is more to it than that..
West Ham United manager Ted manager and we aim to put up Fenton said to me: "Ipswich one more new big sland, should go up this time." That probably next summer." would mean First Divisjon foot- Yes, football is booming at ball in the Suffolk town for the Ipswich to prove that good Soc- first time, and, as Norwich City cer always pays off dividends. gained promotion to Division-Donews Service,
Only Gordon Piric's failure demands on explanation and, many American hurdles, shot-put, discus of so
and though he himself dentes ft. 1 like
Ray 110 metres hurdles, Their gold cannot help concluding that he Hal Connolly, Bill and sliver medallists, Ralph over-trained for Rome.
Or his glory boys of ten years oge Hoonie Burgess has already Boster and Irvin Roberson" re-
Consolation for Britain spectively, smashed the oldest
was steered Watford to promotion Americans of Olymplo
records, Jeme the sliver success of her women from the Fourth Division to the Hartfordshire men's Owens long jump of 20 ft 5 athletes. No other country has Third and the
with ins.
had so many women in second club is already challenging for
lace at the Olymples, but re-promotion in its now sphero. markably Britain han still win her first-ever gold in women's athletics.
somne, alhletes had used drugs, ehtimpions → stars
Also, contrary to the Olymple, Norton, spirit, were the Formosan Alley and John Thomas, political demonstration and As always, the
alibls have those host of miserable
dominated the for failures lack of teum dis- athletics in close contes! cipline, inadequate time for ne-
the might of the Soviet Union. climatisation, the murcieraus heal, over-training and so on.
But
bo nothing should allowed to cloud the glitter- Ing BUCOCIN that these Olympics. bave been.
Surprises
Never have paying customers been given greater value fur inney in the sporting #re For the great attraction of the events in Rome has not be the outstanding performances
And the gynkes wil neer again that the Olymplos have been a private wär between State-alded men of Rusla
subsidised and tho students of American Univer nilles.
NZ's
progress
to
medal
The United States also pro- vided the finest all-round athlete of the Games in 25 year-old world decathlon champion Rafer Johnson and the outstanding woman athiele in the phenomenal long-legred Outside Europe, the moat Wilma Rudolph, triple gold spectacular progress medallist and one of four star me
has been by New Zealand, sprinters to roll off the pro- country of only 2,500,000 people, duction line of Tennesse State which has produced two trick University.
wold medallists her first since Jack Lovelock's famous, 1,500
and Germany's 'iron men'
But while the Olympics entinue to serve as a Summit meeting for the two big powers, there is at last evidence List the rest of the world is closing the Russians have achieved Americans gap.
such that Incredibly high standards they so much as the intriguing un-they can now make only Trac- Other tienal Improvements. countries have room for drama- No one of nomial vision tic advances. would hove anticipated the many successes and fallures in Rune. Every day the fore- custers rubbed their eyes
the certainty of
entertainment In terms of value and high quality per- health- formances, I have no tion in describing the 17th Olympiad as the greatest of all world Jamborers. Whether they fulfilled the ideals of the Olymple founder, Pierre de Coubertin, is quite a different maiter,
nazement.
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World
champion
In Thomas finishes third
unknown 2'eter high jump .. Snell triumphs over 800 metros Baron Australia's sprint girls Call
to win a single gold medal.. Gordon Pirie ftops over 5,000 metres... world record holder B Alley and 1958 Olympie champion Egil Dunkelsen Caillo qualify in the men's javelin... Livia Berrull captures the gold medal for 200 metres. world champion Harold Connolly does not finish in the Arst six in the humaner-throw...
were
1 fer certain that the noble Baron would have been horri- ded to see the sporting extra- developed vagation that h from the Games he revived in Athens 4 years ago.
Gamest Above all, the Jar too unwieldy. While the organisation was superb, no ene could hope to follow more the small section. of the events being staged al 201 different centres situated miles apart..
There bre Lwo solutions: prune the Games down to something like the original Greek selle or spread. the pro- gramme over several months as happened with the gladiatoriai games of ancient Rome.
I would prefer the farmer course, evalining the Games' lo say athletics, baxing, swimming and wrestling. We can well dis without such side-shows ciny-pigeon shooting kuyuk zacing and team Contraction such as football and basketball.
Brought discredit
Then it would not be neces- sary to mil entries so drasil- cally for the athletes events which are always the show. piece of the Olympics,
It was the original' inten. tion that the Games should be open Rii amateur alicies and it is ludicrous thai world champions should be excluded because of failure in one - tional trial.
one
If a country has four or five World-class performers in event, she should be allowed tu send them all.
The Olympic founder would also have been greatly disturb ed at the way the true spirit of the Games was faunted openly by small, but very noisy, minority of the Olympic com- petitors and officials. These gold medal gluttons, who * con- Rider winning more important than fighting well, brought dis- #redli on the Games RS # whate
We had the boxing manager who openly accused his me of "not trying'"' Que two Beld event rivals who segred #1 each other; allegations that one woman competitor had under-
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Such astonishing results sun-baked Rome added to the excitement of the glorious Gomes. But the most signif- cant feature of the Olympics bas undoubtedly bren the
The
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Outstanding
triumph in 1936.
Eddle Baily is the coaching genlus behind the now Leyton Orient, Les Bennelt is the right hand mer of bearded Jack Chisholm of the new profes sional club of Ramford,' Leslie Medley is chief coach to an Ottawa club, Bill Nicholson Is, Rowe's old position at White of course, successfully, Alling Mr Hart Lane and instilling his old master's principles on his top- of-the-table "Bank of England" team, while last but by no The man behind the All Black means least, Alf Ramsey is yet another of Mr Rowe's disciples Examination of performances champions-Murray Halberg spreading the gospel of simple shows that the Americans were (5.000 metres) and Peter Snell Soccer in his capacity of mana- perfectly justified
In boasting (800 metres)-is honorary ger to Ipswich Town that they were sending
man their coach Arthur Lydiard, a who helleves in strongest-ever athletics team to
the tough Rome.
Training But so did many other Cerutty approach to
and who now deserves to countries.
be
one The most
the great of notable, progress rated an has been made by Germany coaches of modern athletics. has who
elded such brillant per-
Probably no country ham 23-year-old Khine-
been so severely disappointed lander Armini Hary, first
by events in Rome as Aus Continental ever to win the
tralia who have lost their Olymple 100 metres; Army stranglehold an sitleja in officer Hans Grodotzaki, silver
women's sprinting, medallist in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres: Dr. Manfred Steinbach, who passed the 20 ft mark in the long jump; and Carl Kauf man, one of
Arsi iwe humans ever to run 400 metres in under, 45 seconds.
greatest progress brei
made in the sprints formers where, until very recently,
Bot European had
triumphed since Harold Abrahams won the Olympic 100 metres in Paris,
1924.
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of
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Division. InternationaÏ
Aston Villa recently spent SCENOT i the Second their Irish Left-winger Peter McParland, in his new book, plumpe for Xpewich as the best footballing -alde in the Division.
In Rome, the American speed
But with the triumphs of They looked Exceptionally kings foiled to win either
their swimmers and the unfor- good when I saw them win 4-2 the 100 or 200 metres gold medal
gettable performance of Herb with the greatest of ease at for the Arst time since 1928.
Elliott, Australians ear hold Brighton. The stamp of Rowe, And event they had won every time
In the 800
their heads up high. metres-un
as imparted by Ramsey, was upon them for all to sec. since 1832-Americans failed to
The When the 'history the old familiar push-and-run style, gain one place in the final.
Germany, combining the 1960 Olympic Games is even- and I dare say that pinned to stars of East and West, ure tually written twe golden the wall of the dressing room at now producing the kind of champlons will shine above all Ipswich is a notice similar to "iro men" needed to challenge others triple gold medallist the one Rowe used to display the might of Russia and the Wilma Rudolph who has revo- at Tottenham: "Do it simply, da United Stales, Other European lutionised women's sprinting it quickly, do it accurately." countries fast improving In- and Herbert James Eillott, the clude France (Marcel Bernard, superhuman Iron-man who has Like Spurs, Palace, and Wat- Abdoul Seye and Michel Jazy), turned the metric mile into aford, Ipswich too are bidding Poland and Italy.
for promotion, and at Brighton
Burl while the United States suffered some of the bitterest disappointments in Rome, they also enjoyed some of the most spectacular triumphs.
They monopotised the medals in such events as the 400 metres
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