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Alt order• v-.,ule Send cheque or P 04' BOURN i New £2100 ~1ess ()ine1~ STOKE ON TRENT Pott end paick ngeerdaveard, Amer:r,. as'king fot ttedit CHURCH STREET ~--- --------- ------------ 3 • At the Kelvin Hall International lnt!y,abelatedHappyNewYeartoevezybodyassociated 0 with Scotland's Runner. Here's hoping 1988 F provides a little more cheer than did 1987. Sports Arena, Glasgow Thankfully, the portents are good. f'irstly, 1988 is the year Scotland has come out of the athletics wilderness. courtesy ol the DAaRY Dairy Crest indoor international between Great Britain and Opening Ceremony 1pm, Saturday 6 February Fr.mceat the Kelvin Hall Sports Arena on February6, and the CREST Miller Lile !ACinternational meeting at Meadowbank on July 29. And there's also a World Cup orienteering event in the Trossachs in May. The Kelvin Hall is probably the single most significant sports GREAT BRITAIN development in Scotland in the 1980's, and hopefully when our English friends have tested its potential al the Dairy v Crest meeting itwill supplant Cosford as the premier British indoor venue. F R A N C E Although they have become devalued in the last decade because of boycotts and the advent of the athletics World Cup, the Olympicsstill stir the imagination of the public unlike any other sporting eveni. With the excelleni news that 1he Soviets, the East Germans and the Americans- although noi the Cubans- will compete against each other at the Games !orthe first time since 1976, the 198801ympics look rhe •and• of die ScottUb ladoor Cb.AmpAlonabips, W.LUfe Fruer, set fair. despite the bizarre choice of venue and the continuing N#ily ~ tbe 200 metrft at the Kelvia B.u (UH>ve)., wb.De-, Mlow, possibility ol internal South Korean 2'omllanlonran u utvter•co to w1n tbo JSOOmetn.1-butthee111pty 1 dissent. ae~tr bflb.tad UJe nuutftd 'J»&Jc volumn for the SAAA • lneapacity to Given that these !actors will uplifl sport in Scotland this year, it is promote their meetiap. depressing that the Scottish athletics authorities do not appear to have woken up to the necessity to promote and popularise the sport. There is little indication that the sensible suggestions outlined by Bob Inglis in our November issue, !or example, will be debated, never mind implemented, and the complacency at the SAAA annual general meeting on December 19 suggests that officialdom is more concerned with internal nit-picking than projecting an outwardly confident image. -....... Just as disturbing is the disreqard for reaping maximum • exposure from internal Scottish events. The indoor { championships at the Kelvin Hall on January 16 and 17- sponsored by Royal Mail Letters-were a superb occasion, bU1 spectators ware sparse.