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Show THE OLYMPIC GAMES out for each country. Three converted service camps in London at Richmond park, Uxbridge and West Drayton will house the competitors, officials, trainers, masseurs mas-seurs and domestic staffs. Each of these Olympic "villages," decorated in cream and turquoise blue, will be complete with movie theaters, cafeterias, cafe-terias, shops, post office, bank, gymnasiums, gym-nasiums, laundry service and taxis. About 200,000 Olympic visitors are expected and they will pay anywhere any-where from $12 in a good hotel to $2 in private houses for bed and breakfast. The overall cost of staging stag-ing the games is estimated at $1,-600,000. $1,-600,000. All athletes will pay their own way. This will work out at about $5 each per day. Any profits from the games will be shared out among British sports and athletics clubs. The United States is sending a team of 374 athletes, 57 of them women. This is by far the largest number that America has entered in any Olympic overseas. Biggest teams are those for athletics and swimming. swim-ming. Both the United States and Britain Bri-tain will participate in atl 17 sports events, as well as Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary and Italy. Most popular are the track and field events with 49 countries competing. The next most popular sports are boxing, swimming, cycling, shooting, wrestling, and football. All this is complicated when compared com-pared to the first Olympics organized organ-ized for the Greek states by Iphitus of Elis in the ninth century B. C. Ia those days there was only one event Here are the official uniforms that will be worn by the men and rZll P il ly,mpiC team When the 1948 O'P' o ens in ' fhP nivtn "J? a Tmen Wear navy bIue flannel JMkete with the Olympic shield on the breast pocket. The man's sweater is banded red- wh,te and bIue and he we"s a red, white and Hue necktie More than 5,000 athletes from 61 countries are getting set for the 17 events in the 14th Olympiad to be In London, England, from July 29 to August 14. Strange cargoes are arriving in London 200 horses, 100 rowing boats, 60 yachts, hundreds of fencing fenc-ing foils, massage equipment, firearms fire-arms and some 400 cycles. Cavalry officers of the Argentine team have Bent their horses in advance with uelf-contalned stables. Their unit Includes a blacksmith's shop, Iron for shoeing the horses, saddlery, forage, a veterinary surgeon and 10 grooms. One third of the competing teams will take their own food. Nearly 30,000 pounds of food is being sent to London for the South African team 50 different items, even to spices like bay leaves and ginger. Elaborate schemes of storage, refrigeration, re-frigeration, distribution and specialized spe-cialized cooking have been worked the stadion, or short foot race of about 200 yards. The first games of the modern cycle were held in Athens Ath-ens in 1896 in the ancient stadium especially prepared for the purpose. During peacetime, the games are usually held every four years. The last Olympics were held in 1936 and won by Germany with 628 points. The United States had 451 points. The 1940 Olympics were to be held in Finland, but were abandoned as the result of the Russian invasion of that country. |