THE SIDELINES : S. Africa Seen Back in Games
South Africa could return to the Olympic Games in 1996, the chief of the International Olympic Committee was quoted as saying today.
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, in an interview with the German sports news agency SID, was asked if he thought South Africa could be readmitted to the Olympic Games.
“I believe so. A participation in the 1996 Games is surely possible,” Samaranch was quoted as saying.
The 1996 Olympics have been awarded to Atlanta.
South Africa was formally expelled from the IOC in 1970 because of its apartheid policies. The last time South African athletes competed at the Olympics was in 1960 in Rome.
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