Nadi Requests Amateur Status
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Nadi Requests Amateur Status
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January 4, 1937
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NADI REQUESTS AMATEUR STANDING
The Italian Fencing Federation has submitted a petition that its president, Mr. Aldo Nadi's older brother Nedo, be reinstated as an amateur. The request is made with the guarantee that Mr. Nedo Nadi, who has been the Olympic Coach and Captain of the Italian Team as well as one of the world’s outstanding professional fencers, will never again participate in a fencing competition. It was also pointed out that Mr. Nadi has not fenced actively for several years. Mr. Strazza, president of the Italian Olympic Committee, sent in a recommendation that the F.I.E. accept Mr. Nadi as an amateur.
The reason given with this request is to allow Mr. Nadi an equal standing in the F.I.E. Congress. As president of his country’s Federation, and as their delegate, Mr. Nadi has been denied a voice in matters which have come before the Congress because of his professional rank. Had Mr. Nadi been an amateur last year, it is quite probable that he would have been elected the new president of the International Fencing Federation.
The petition will be brought up for a vote at the next meeting of the F.I.E., and the Board of Governors of the Amateur Fencers League of America has had to decide how the U.S. will cast its votes. After much discussion and a close vote, the Board has decided that in its opinion Mr. Nedo Nadi is not qualified for reinstatement as an amateur. We won’t know the final decision on the matter till some time next spring.
