South African athletes have been barred from...

South African athletes have been barred from participating in the Olympic Games since 1960 because of its apartheid policies, and now South African spectators will be banned from attending the Olympic Games in Seoul, government sports officials in Johanesburg said.

Dennis MacIldowie, the South African National Olympic Committee deputy director, said travel agents and an international sports federation, which he declined to name, told him of the ban for the Games. He said he presumed it was approved by the International Olympic Committee.