Track Council Recommends 2-Year Ban for Budd

The International Amateur Athletic Federation council passed a rule Sunday that would ban South African-born Zola Budd from international competition for 2 years.

A spokesman said the rule, which must be approved by the 182 member countries at the IAAF congress next September in Spain, bars South African athletes who emigrate from all competition for a year and restricts them to domestic meets for another year.

They must also renounce their South African citizenship and not spend more than 3 months each year in their native land, the IAAF spokesman said.

Budd was granted a British passport in April, 1984, that enabled her to run in the Los Angeles Olympics. But she never broke her links with South Africa, and the IAAF demanded that she be banned after allegations that she had been associated with competitions in her homeland.

South Africa was suspended from the IAAF in 1976 because of its racial separation policies, and it is a violation of federation rules to compete there.