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Title
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These tarnished Olympics
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Excerpt
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[Excerpt]: "If anyone does not believe the repercussions of apartheid stretch far and wide, they should be present at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where it has tarnished the Games as they have never been before. One only had to see last week a departing team from Afria waiting with their baggage for transport to the airport...Everywhere was a feeling of sadness and futility... This was a seminar organised by the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid and held in Havana, attended by 200 delegates including the crucial nucleus of leading African sports officials and SAN-ROC. It was at this stage that Dennis Brutus, the president of SAN-ROC, a professor of English in the African Studies Department at the Northwest University of Illinois, threw his own acknowledged ability and experience and that of SAN-ROC unequivocally behind the African protest. Brutus, an exiled coloured South African, who was imprisoned in South Africa as a result of his views on apartheid, was portrayed in oarts of the British and foreign Press last week as a somewhat sinister figure. Yet, it is he who turned to de Broglio in Havana to say: 'If they (the African countries) are prepared to go through all this--which is much more than we would ever ask--who are we to quarrel? We're with them.'"
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Bibliographic Citation
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"These tarnished Olympics (1976-07-25)", The Sunday Times, 1976-07-25, p. 20.
Accessed 2019-12-17. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/FP1802369580/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=6c9454e4.
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News Item Type
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News Report
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Date
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25 July 1976
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Identifier
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apdp.news.000198
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People referenced
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Hughes, Rob
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Hopkins, John
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Williams, Bryn
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Quax, Dick
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Harris, Norman
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Berlioux, Monique
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Ordia, Abraham
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Ganga, Jean-Claude
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Rous, Stanley
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Herbstein, Denis
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Harriman, Leslie O.
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Graham, J. C.
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Killanin, Michael Morris
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Muldoon, Robert
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Ward, Peter
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de Broglio, Chris
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Lovesey, John
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Wint, Carl
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Evans, Lee
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Temple, Cliff
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McGregor, Allan
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Brutus, Dennis Vincent
Dennis Brutus; Race, Sports, and Poetry
