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  1. Seb Coe wild card Olympic entry (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Plans by the International Olympic Committee for two-time Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe to be entered into the Summer Olympics in Seoul as a wild card have been met with doubt from other athletes....

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  2. Sport links with South Africa and Olympics boycott (1980)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on the decision of the UK Sports Council to urge the Government to reforge sporting links with South Africa following reduction in racial discrimination in sport in the country, and to finance British...

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  3. Muhammad Ali urges athletes to boycott Moscow Olympics (1980)

    Genre
    News report

    Report on US boxer Muhammad Ali’s call for countries to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games in protest against the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan. The boxer began his tour of African nations in...

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  4. John Major on resuming sporting links with South Africa (1991)

    Genre
    Speech; Parliamentary debate

    House of Commons speech by UK Prime Minister John Major reacting after the International Olympic Committee ended South Africa’s twenty-one year exclusion from the Olympic movement. He says the time has...

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  5. Sydney success for 2000 Summer Olympic Games (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Report from the scene at Monte Carlo where the successful Sydney, Australia bid for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games is announced and on placings of the other bidders for the title of host city. Speakers are...

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  6. Manchester Olympic 2000 bid (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Special; Speech

    Report on the nations and cities put forward to host the 2000 summer Olympic Games and how the voting of the International Olympic Committee in Monte Carlo, Monaco might go. Speakers are Chairman of...

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  7. Apartheid sport ban over for South Africa (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the readmission of South Africa into international sport lifting a ban due to apartheid, they have been allowed into next year’s Olympic Games and back to the International Cricket Council (ICC)...

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  8. Tom Pendry visit to Moscow - MP’s view (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male Conservative MP (poss. John Selwyn Gummer) criticises the decision of Labour MP Tom Pendry to visit the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Male...

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  9. Olympic fundraising despite boycott (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with a male speaker (poss. Labour MP and former sports minister Denis Howell) about raising funds for British athletes to enable them to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics in defiance of the...

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  10. Three Britons fail drugs tests at Barcelona Olympics (1992)

    Genre
    Speech

    Caroline Searle of the British Olympic Association breaks the news in Barcelona that three members of the Great Britain Olympic team - athlete Jason Livingston and weight lifters Andrew Davies and Andrew...

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