New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics New Zealand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The New Zealand Olympic Committee was represented by 80 athletes, 71 men and 9 women, and 29 officials. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was wrestler David Aspin. In protest at a tour of South Africa by the All Blacks team early in the year, Congo's official Jean Claude Ganga led a boycott of 28 African nations as the International Olympic Committee refused to bar the New Zealand team. Some of the nations (including Morocco, Cameroon and Egypt) had already
South Africa African XI Eastern Province in Port Elizabeth. Eastern Province made 345 for 2, declaring after 51 of their allotted 60 overs, then dismissed the South Africa African XI for 101. Peter Chingoka, who later became President of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, captained the South Africa African XI in both its Gillette Cup matches. South Africa African XI The South Africa African XI was a cricket team that played several matches in South Africa between 1973 and 1976, including two List A matches in the Gillette Cup. South Africa was boycotted by the other cricket-playing nations in the early 1970s owing to the