Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macdonald cited the value of athletics in the propaganda world as "inestimable." "All over the world, sports are a common denominator between nations. Once the United States team is chosen, it represents our country and therefore should make as creditable a showing as possible...
...What Macdonald proposes is that the government feed and house the Olympians and pay their transportation bills to Australia. "I am not proposing that we give these athletes salaries," he said, "rather I feel that we should get them together in some training site with weather similar to Australia...
This year there will be a five-month lag between the team selections in June and the actual Olympic games in November. Macdonald suggests that, immediately following the trials, "the Olympic coaches should get the whole works together and set up a training camp in Florida or California. Otherwise, those selected might very easily get out of shape during the summer," he said...
...this bill shouldn't go through," Macdonald said. "After all, there are quite a few athletes like myself in the government who feel very much...
...Macdonald said that the publicly-appropriated Olympic fund would not be sufficient to cover all the team's expenses. "It is, therefore, the government's responsibility, for we owe it to our athletes and to ourselves to get the best possible results in Australia," he said...