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Title
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Monteal and Denver Chosen: North America scoops Olympics pool
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Excerpt
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[Excerpt]: "North America scooped the pool when the voting took place here tonight for the 1976 Olympic Games. The summer sports are to be held in Montreal and the winter variety at Denver, Colorado. The choice of Montreal was greeted with volleys of applause, that for Denver with squeals of surprise... The case for South Africa's expulsion from the movement is to be put to the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) this week, probably on Friday, by Jean-Claude Ganga (Congo) and Abram Ordia (Nigeria), respectively secretary-general and president of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, a body embracing 19 countries. The South African National Olympic Committee, headed by Mr. Frank Braun, will have the right of reply, whereupon Mr. Ganga and Mr. Ordia will have a further 10 minutes to answer the case for the defense... The South African non-racial Open Committee for Olympic Sport (Sanroc) is here in force, but unavoidably without their guiding spirit, Mr. Denis Brutus, more immediately required in England with the cricket tour on the boil..."
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Bibliographic Citation
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"Monteal and Denver Chosen: North America scoops Olympics pool (1970-05-13)", The Times, 1970-05-13, p. 14.
Accessed 2019-12-17. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS235893421/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=49748c25.
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News Item Type
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News Report
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Date
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13 May 1970
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Identifier
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apdp.news.000203
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People referenced
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Ordia, Abraham
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Alexander, Reginald
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Ganga, Jean-Claude
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Hennessy, John
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Braun, Frank Dirceu
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Brutus, Dennis Vincent
