Friends of Judith Deutsch, one of Austria’s swimming champions, said today she intends to appeal to the Federal Court against the decision of the Austrian sports authorities disqualifying her for two years for refusing to compete in the Berlin Olympics.
She is a member of the Hakoah Sports Club which, with the Maccabi Sports Union, has decided to boycott the games because they are being held in Nazi Germany.
Dr. Otto Liftczis, president of the Maccabi Union, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that its district executive committee had decided, despite the threat of two-year disqualification for athletes boycotting the games, to prohibit members of its affiliated sports and swimming clubs from going to Berlin.
The Austrian Olympic Committee had asked the Maccabi Union to send four of its members to Berlin. They are Miss Deutsch, Koenig, a sprinter; Fincsus, a wrestler, and Ruth Langer, swimmer.
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