Argentina joins the boycott of Moscow Olympic Games 1980

Bs. As .: Press conference of the President of the Argentine Olympic Committee, Colonel Antonio Rodriguez where he states: - "I thank you for the presence of all the journalists and evidently the attendance reflects the interest that exists at this time for all related problems with the activity of the Olympic movement both in the Argentine Republic and in the world Before starting with the aspects that I am going to deal with in the press conference, which are three, one related to the Argentine participation in the next winter Olympic games in Lake Placid, which is a town that is close to the border with Canada in the United States, and that is also important because of the Argentine participation because the Olympic family is going to meet there previously, let's say or for the last time before the Games. Moscow Olympics. Then I will also explain the sponsorship of the Olympic committee to the presentation of some Soviet football teams that They are going to be presented in our country these days, and then we are going to talk about the Olympic Games in Moscow. Previously, I want to make a clarification regarding publications that have come out of my statements. The day before yesterday a journalist from the newspaper El Pueblo de Rio Cuarto called me and I told him that today we had a press conference, but he said that he could not come and then I made some statements that obviously I do not interpret them well or this journalist does not know a little some aspects of the Olympic movement. When he asked me about the boycott, I told him that the attendance of the countries was not compulsory at the Olympic games but that evidently when a country boycotted or did not attend, it detracts from the games. -The athletes sat on the grass and did not want to leave and the delegates were forcing them to leave and everyone was crying because they could not participate in the parade or the Olympic games because it was a last minute thing. -The one who did not attend or who left was South Africa and precisely at this moment the international Olympic committee has 141 affiliated Olympic committees and there are two that are not. So in no way could I have said South Africa because South Africa does not intervene, what I told 18 countries in Africa and I read in all the newspapers that South Africa was the one that came out. "(Magnetic / Ambient sound)
Reference: Argentina joins the boycott of the United States to avoid participating in the Olympic Games in Moscow.
Date: 1/28/1980
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds
Film Code: B-01178

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