from The Rheinstadion Dusseldorf
The World Cup
The first-ever athletics world cup is an original and exciting development in athletics, in which the top athletes in the world compete, not for individual medals as in the Olympics, but in a unique inter-continenital team competition. The International Amateur Athletics Federation have arranged a formula which guarantees a represenltative world competition.
Eight teams of men and women, with one athlete per team in each event, compete on a points basis, with the total points deciding the winners. The eight teams are ASIA, AFRICA, USA, OCEANIA (including Australia and New Zealand), THE AMERICAS (including Canada, Cuba, Brazil and West Indies), GDR (men and women), GFR (men) and USSR (women) - who qualified from the European Cup Final, and finally, EUROPE SELECT, picked from the remaining European nations.
Each event will be equivalent to an Olympic final, and among the events today are the men's 400m hurdles for which EDWIN MOSES , the Olympic champion and world record-holder, has qualified for the USA; the women's 200m, the shot-put and the 10,000m.
Commentators RON PICKERING
BARRY DAVIES , STUART STOREY Statistician STAN GREENBERG
Producer JOHN SHREWSBURY
Television presentation by the German Television Service