Within the International Federations lnternational Amateur Athletic Federaiton (IAAF)! The long jump with salto will soon be forbidden, as certain officials deem it to be a highly dangerous innovation.! Towards indoor world championships. Mr. Adrian Paulen, Council member of the IAAF, is getting ready to support this project and to raise it at the Council of the European Athletics Association, of which he is President, which meets in Rome on 12th May, 1974.! The 1974 IAAF Directory has just been released. This collection presents all the useful addresses on this sport s organisation.! We would also like to note the publication of a Guide to lthletics in India. This volume, edited by Mr. Y. A. Gole, will be useful in helping officials and organisers by facilitating research among official texts. Fédération lnternationale des Sociétés d Aviron (FISA)! The 1974 World Championships will be held in Lucerne (Switzerland) from 28th August to 8th September on the waters of the natural basin of Rotsee Lake. The rowers will be meeting for the first time to obtain the highest honours. Let us remember that at Montreal in 1976, ladies rowing will make its first appearance on the programme of the Olympic Games.! The FISA Congress will meet on 3rd September in Lucerne (Switzerland). Fédération lnternationale de Basketball Amateur (FIBA)! Montreal 1976: Qualifiers for the next Olympic men s tournament: Canada, the organising country, a team from Europe, one from Asia, one from the American continent, one from Oceania, one from Africa and the three best teams from the 1972 Olympic tourment, as well as the three best teams from a qualifying tournament which will be organised by a Canadian town. Participants in the first ladies Olympic tournament: Canada, the three best teams from the World Championships and the two best teams from a qualifying tournament to be organised in Canada. Association lnternationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA)! We have received no. 1 of the AIBA s magazine. Messages appear in the summary from, among others, Lt. Col. R. H. Russell, AIBA President, and The natural basin of Rotsee. 267
Mr. Harry R. Banks, IOC Technical Director after twenty five years service with the AIBA, reports on the Xth Olympic Congress and on the extraordinary meeting of the AIBA in Montreal, a historic note on the AIBA, founded in 1946 and which, today, has 120 National Federations affiliated...! The 8th Annual AIBA Congress will be organized for the first time by an African federation in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) from 20th to 25th September, 1974.! Montreal 1976. The preliminary competitions of the Olympic tournament from 18th to 29th July will be set in the Maurice Richard arena, which has a 6,000 seating capacity. The semi-finals (30th July) and the finals (31st July) will take place in the Montreal Forum, one of the world s largest halls (20,500 seats of which 2,500 are ringside). This heated hall is air conditioned. Colonel D. F. Hull (USA) and Mr. N. Nikiforov Denisov (USSR) have taken up their positions as Olympic technical delegates. Mr. Richard Goddart! Mr. Richard Goddart, who has acted as AIBA Administrative Secretary since January, 1973, has had his position confirmed. Born in Portsmouth (England), he moved towards training while doing linguistic and psychological studies. Very quickly, he became interested in educational boxing and from 1967 to 1972 was Secretary General of the English and Welsh Student s Amateur Boxing Association and was based at the Council of the British Amateur Boxing Association.! The 1st World Amateur Boxing Championships will take place from 17th to 30th August 1974 in Havana (Cuba). Each National Federation can enter a team. The main bouts will be organised in the open air in the Latin America stadium, capable of holding 60,000 spectators. Fédération Equestre lnternationale (FEI)! The 1974 World Three Day Event Championships will take place at Burghley, on the estate of the Marquess of Exeter, IOC member for Great Britain, from 12th to 15th September. Fédération lnternationale d Escrime (FIE)! The World Championships and the Olympic fencing events have been reduced to 9 days. The Rules Commission of the FIE approved this project for the following reasons: to increase public interest and to help the journalists work.! Besides the National Federations of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, the National Sports Federation of China and the Amateur Fencing Federation of the Republic of China have submitted a request for affiliation to the FIE. According to the President of the Fédération lnternationale d Escrime, opinion on these latter two requests is extremely divided. Some wish to admit both Federations, states Mr. Pierre Ferri, which seems impossible taking into account the stand taken by Peking China. Others wish to admit Peking China and still others prefer to wait for the IOC s decision. The Executive Board will present a report to the Federation s next Congress, to be organised in Monte-Carlo from 14th to 17th May 1974. 268
! The FIE s Commission de propagande has expressed the hope that the Congress will intervene so that organisers of top level events will not forget to release results immediately, possibly with commentaries, to the press agencies.! A special control apparatus will make its appearance at the 1974 World Championships to control the solidity of the trellis-work. These championships will take place in Grenoble (France) from 16th to 27th July.! Long-term medical consequences of fencing (inflamation of the hip, sciatica of the lumbar vertebrae...) are the subject of an enquiry by FIE officials, under the direction of Dr. Guy Azernar. Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)! The 3rd International Football Round Table in March 1975 in Monte- Carlo will tackle two themes; firstly the dangers threatening the game and secondly large football clubs and their juridical, administrative, financial and sports problems.! Soviet football has reverted to standard rules. Forbidding of drawn games, adopted for the last national championships, has been abandonned for 1974; however, penalties after full time will still be taken to decide between the two teams but only in the case of no goal being scored previously.! The Federations of Morocco and Sierra Leone have been suspended for non-payment of their subscriptions. The editorial of the FIFA News no. 130 mentions the consequences of a suspension; the suspended association cannot vote at Congresses nor have sports relations with other associations and nor can their teams take part in either official or friendly matches. During the year of the FIFA s Congress, which will be held in Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany, on 11th June, a suspension will hide a much greater effect, as even though the National Federations concerned can send delegates they can take no active part in the Congress work, not having the right to vote. Fédération lnternationale de Gymnastique (FIG)! 1974 World Championships. For these championships, the ladies compulsory exercises remain identical to those of the 1972 Olympic Games, the choice of programme and musical accompaniment is free but must be the same for all gymnasts of the same team.! The back salto on the beam can still be executed providing responsibility in respect of the danger arising from this movement is assumed by the Federation to which the gymnast belongs. On the asymmetrical bars, finishes by salto, either from the upright or crouching positions, would no longer be allowed.! No to creative willingness, yes to stagnation. Under this title, the 1972 Olympic champion, Karen Janz (GDR), has written a lively article on her sport published in bulletin no. 1/1974 of the NOC of the GDR. International Handball Federation (IHF)! Mr. Friedhelm Peppmeier, Director of the IHF, has launched the following appeal in the last Federation bulletin: We hope that behaviour towards the opponent will soon revert to the expected fair play. We join with him in hoping that these words are heard by all practising sportsmen.! The international symposium of the IHF, organised from 16th to 21st September 1974 at Macolin (Switzerland), will be attended by 80 trainers or judges. Each National Federation will delegate only one judge and trainer. Development trends of the game will be the course s theme. 269
International Judo Federation (IJF) The Spanish Judo Federation, presided over by Mr. Garcia de la Fuente, Secretary General of the IJF, has published a small booklet entitled What is Judo?, aimed mainly at children. In illustrated and in places comic form, with a simple and clear accompanying text, this 8-page brochure contains the elements of Judo and encourages the practice of this interesting sport! We reproduce the text below. 270
Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH)! The 50th anniversary of the FIH will be celebrated from 26th to 29th September. An exhibition match between a European selected team and an Asian selected team is scheduled for 28th September in Brussels. The Federation s Congress will meet at this time.! Montreal 1976. The Olympic tournament will be played on artificial grass fields as the Canadian climate is not condusive to perfect grass grounds.! An international judges conference will be held in London from 4th to 6th October 1974.! Robert Liegeois, one of the FIH founders and Vice-President from 1924 to 1926, has died recently.! Since the success of its team in the 1972 Olympic tournament, the Federation of the German Democratic Republic has registered 5,000 new licence holders, thus bringing the number of its members to 35,000.! Patrick Rowley, named Director of Public Relations and Promotion of the FIH, has become the first appointed official of the FIH. International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) New address: 20 Bedford Street, London, WC2E 9HP. Telephone: 01 240 5222. Cables: ICEHOC London WC2. Telex: 25427 (Blutrav LDN). Union Internationale de TIR (UIT)! 1974 World Championships at Thoune and Berne (Switzerland). On the programme: 20th September: Air rifle (M and W) and free pistol (M). 21st September: Small-bore prone rifle match (M and W); air pistol 10 m. (M and W); running boar part one (M); trap part one (M and W). 22nd September: Small-bore three-tositional rifle match 50 m. (M); rapid fire pistol 25 m. part one (M); running boar (M); trap part two (M); final for team and women. 23rd September: Rapid fire pistol 25 m. final (M); running boar mixed runs part one (M); trap final (M). 24th September: Small-bore standard rifle 50 m. (M and W); running boar mixed runs(m). 25th September: Centre fire pistol 25 m. part one (M); standard pistol 25 m. part one (W); skeet part one (M and W). 26th September: Free rifle 300 m. (M); centre fire pistol 300 m. (M); standard pistol (W); skeet part two (M); final for team and women. 27th September: Standard pistol 25 m. (M); skeet final (M). 28th September: Standard rifle 300 m. (M); Closing ceremony.! It has appeared necessary to attune the UIT s technical rules, stated the President, Dr. Kurt Hasler, but the present rules would remain unchanged until the end of 1976 at least. Comité International des Sports Silencieux Founded 50 years ago in 1924, the Comité International des Sports Silencieux commemorates its 50th anniversary on 28th June in the town where it began, Paris. The Fédération Sportive des Sourds de France supported by the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français will host a double reception, in the morning at 10.30 in the Hotel de Ville and in the late afternoon at 18.00 at the CNOSF headquarters. 271