Olympic Games
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Fever Grips Fiji
PROMISING performances put up by candidates for Fiji’s Olympic Games team has greatly stimu lated Colony interest in the Games.
In view of this, the Fiji Broadcast ing Commission is seeking to ensure the colony the most comprehensive broadcast coverage possible.
At Olympic athletics trials in Suva last month, Torika Varo broke the women’s 220 yards Fiji record and equalled the 100 yards record.
Her time for the 100 yards was 12 seconds.
Viliame Liga, with a throw of 203 ft 8 in., broke his own Fiji record for the javelin throw. No other records were broken but the athletes generally acquitted themselves well.
Five commentators the New Zealand Broadcasting Service is sending to the Games in Melbourne will watch Fiji’s contestants as well as the Dominion’s. It is hoped that regular information about members of the Fiji team will be included in Radio New Zealand bulletins re broadcast by the FBC.
In addition, the FBC has asked
the Australian Broadcasting Com mission for permission to re-broad cast commentaries and results from a transmission beamed to Canada or the United States. This would make possible the re-broadcasting of frequent commentaries on the Games as a whole.