Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1914 — After Olympic Talent. [ARTICLE]

After Olympic Talent.

The British Olympic council has decided to award standard badges, with ribbons and bars, and diplomas for a series of performances during one year, reaching the required standard of merit. The awards, which will be known aB the British Olympic proficiency badges and diplomas, may be competed for only by British amateurs as defined by each of the governing associations concerned. These bodies have drawn up standards for candidates from seventeen to twenty years of age in athletics, boxing, cycling, fencing, shootlngf swimming, wrestling and gymnastics. They have also undertaken the supervision and checking of performances, and will endeavor to help the competitors to obtain proper facilities for coaching.