Jack Abramson, chairman of the United States Maccabiah Team which will participate in the 11th Maccabiah Games to be held in Israel July 6-16, 1981, has made a study and survey of the numbers of entries stated for the Games and has come up with some very interesting figures.
Of the countries which competed at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, which ended today, nine will have larger entries at the Maccabiah Games in 1981 than were sent to the Games in Moscow. In the matter pertaining to eight countries which did not compete in the 1980 Olympics because of the boycott, four will submit more entries in 1981 for the contests in Israel, than they did in the 1976 Olympics.
The breakdown reads as follows:
Nations Which Participated in Moscow
Country – Olympic Entries (1980), Maccabiah Entries (1981)
Australia – 182, 300
Austria – 60, 15
Belgium – 105, 106
Brazil – 81, 152
Colombia – 34, 116
Denmark – 69, 32
Ecuodor – 5, ?
Finland – 89, ?
France – 213, 108
Great Britain – 249, 114
Greece – 37, ?
Guatemala – 29, ?
Ireland – 46, 60
India, 26, 28
Italy – 46, 42
Mexico – 99, 144
Peru – 13, 42
New Zealand – 84, ?
Spain – 115, 53
Sweden – 122, 55
Switzerland – 54, 24
Venezuela – 31, 221
Nations Which Did Not Participate In Moscow
Country – Olympic Entries (1976), Maccabiah Entries (1981)
Canada – 391, 179
United States – 468, 375
Israel – 26, 500
Bolivia – 4, ?
Chile – 7, 48
Uruguay – 9, 56
South Africa – 0, 222
Argentina – 70, 204
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