to the IOC, setting out the situation in South African sport, was the founding document in the struggle to isolate the apartheid state. The IOC, which has always aspired to universality, was in no hurry to exclude South Africa; instead it urged the official Olympic committee, Sanoc, to conform with the Olympic Charter, which allows no racial distinctions in sport. Sanoc could do little to influence the National Party government, and despite some concessions, its invitation to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was withdrawn; none was sent for Mexico City in 1968, and in 1970 the IOC withdrew recognition from Sanoc. No South Africans competed in the Olympics under that nation's colours until Barcelona in 1992.
from The Daily Telegraph: Dennis Brutus
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