Dick Quax

At last Dick Quax has achieved his longtime ambition — a world record in the 500m. Congratulations to Quax for surely he has had one of the most chequered athletic histories in this country.

It was justice indeed that he should break the record by just 0.1 sec. because it was by this margin that he missed out on the record last year. It is now history of course that Quax has missed out on the selection of the Australasian team to compete at the World Games later this year. How he was left out in the first place one never knows. Sure he didn't run very convincingly in New Zealand earlier this year but he had won a Silver medal at the Olympic Games and he had run the 2nd fastest time in the 5000m of alt time, but it would seem that this is sufficient to gain selection in the Australasian team. Evidently Quax has to run World records all year around to qualify for such selection. I hope Quax's new record sufficiently stuffs it up the selectors jumper.