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South Africa invited to Olympics
LAUSANNE. Switzerland, July 26 : After decades of isolation. South Africa is once again a member of the Olympic community, reports AP.
The country whose apartheid policy of racial discrimination led to Its banning from international sport was among 167 countries that received Invitations Thursday to compete in the 1992 Olympics In Barcelona. Spain.
South Africa was readmitted to the Olympic movement earlier this month because of Its moves toward full racial equality tn sport
In an hour-long morning ceremony attended by senior Spanish officials. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch signed 10 invitations In front of the media. Included were South Africa and Namibia, the latest national Olympic committees to be recognized
The national organizations have until Nov. 25 to reply to Invitations to next summer's Games The 1988 Seoul Olympics were attended by athletes from 160 countries.
'It is really great news. fan tasUc." said Isay Kramer. treasurer of the National Olympic committee of South Africa He Mid the invitation would be dtacuaaed at a NOCSA meeting Saturday
Among those present at the ceremony at IOC headquarters were Javier Navarro, the Spanish government's sport delegate. and Barcelona Mayor Pascal! Manqpill.
Samaranch flew to Barcelona Thursday afternoon to join in official events mark Ing the start of the final year of preparations. The Games take place July 25 Aug 9 1992
The IOC recognized South Africa's national Olympic committee at a meeting July 9. after all the main apartheid laws were repealed The IOC had also demanded that the country's segregated sports federations be merged Into single non-racial organizations
South Africa last competed In the Olympics at Rome in I960 when it fielded an all white team The republic was expelled from the IOC In 1970 and became an international outcast tn the sporting world.
Despite lack of experience tn International competition. South African athletes could be medal contenders at next summer's Olympics. The country's main hopes arc In track and field. Zola Budd-Pleterse, who took part In the 1984 Los Angeles Games under a British passport, is the best-known competitor.
ATHLETES' APPEAL
Reuter adds from Sheffield. England. South African athletes appealed to the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) on Thursday to intervene In the row which threatens to prevent them competing at next month's World Championships In Tokyo.
The IAAF received a letter from a group of athletes saying they believed the South African Amateur Athletics Association (SAAAA) might turn down an invitation to compete in Tokyo because of pressure from Sam Ramsamy. president of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (NOCSA).
The SAAAA Is due to meet on Saturday to decide whether to accept the IAAF's invitation to send 25 athletes to the World Championship, but Ramsamy. who was a leading figure in the antl-aprthied movement, has said the haste to return to International competition was obscene.' I*u»t weekend two of the groups making up the SAAAA. the South African Amateur Athletics Congress (SAAC) and the South African Athletics Board (SAAB), decided to oppose participating 1n Tokyo.
"We have reason to believe that the SAAAA. under pressure from Sam Ramsamy. will not come to a decision on Saturday, said the letter from the athletes, including Zola Pieterse and several South African record holders and representing, they said, hundreds of other athletes. We feel the right of the Iryitvtdual athlete Is not being considered'at all." they added.
On Wednesday. IAAF President Primo Ncbiolo urged the South African athletics bodies to stop internal quarrels and accept the Invitation. He also said at a press conference here that South African athletes should push your leaders to come."
Franco Fava, spokesman for the IAAF, said: The letter showed to us most athletes want to compete and we arc pleased to know their position. We support them but all we can do Is wait. If South Africa decides to lake part In Tokyo it will be more useful than to sit decides to take part In Tokyo It will be more useful than to sit and talk for the next six months, it is down to them.
Nebtofo said on Wednesday: " If they hesitate they will lose great sympathy from the world. It's a danger for them, not for us."