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From: clamen@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
Subject: Re: Madagascar Coup
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 10:24:19 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
Originator: clamen@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1992Jul30.175854.5236@ulowell.ulowell.edu> wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat) writes:


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   Aparently the rest of the world took it more seriously than the (I
   can't remember the word for folks who live in (on?) Madascar,
   sorry) so Cotsas' irreverence was not totally out of line, I guess.

Malagasies.

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From: wild@cs.uq.oz.au (Luke Wildman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Handball
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:55:07 GMT
Reply-To: wild@cs.uq.oz.au

Teams (Full-Time Score)(Half-Time Score)

Men's Grp A:
ISL-BRA (19-18)(10-10)
SWE-CZE (20-14)(8-7)
KOR-HUN (22-18)(11-11)
Men's Grp B:
ROM-EGY (22-21)(10-12)
CIS-GER (25-15)(12-7)
FRA-ESP (18-16)(7-7)

Well suprises for ESP and HUN
For ESP it might be a temporay abberation but for
HUN it seems quite convincing. 
KOR must really be wanting to reinforce the last silver.

The ISL-BRA match must have been good; the closer the better!

The SWE and CIS defence seems the most promising however the CIS 
seem the better scorers (at least in the first half).

This makes the points table:

Men Grp A
    P W D L F  A  Pts
SWE 1 1 0 0 20 14 2
KOR 1 1 0 0 22 18 2
ISL 1 1 0 0 19 18 2
BRA 1 0 0 1 18 19 0
HUN 1 0 0 1 18 22 0
CZE 1 0 0 1 14 20 0

Men Grp B
    P W D L F  A  Pts
CIS 1 1 0 0 25 15 2
FRA 1 1 0 0 18 16 2
ROM 1 1 0 0 22 21 2
EGY 1 0 0 1 16 18 0
ESP 1 0 0 1 16 18 0
GER 1 0 0 1 15 25 0

No women's scores yet.
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From: RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: A modest proposal
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:03:46 GMT
 <1992Jul30.051028.252801@cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

let us do better Divvy up the broadcast among the five abc,cbs,nbs,fox and cnn.

Let us see some sports wi6thout americans please!!!!

rajagopalan
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From: murty@ecf.toronto.edu (MURTY Hema Sandhyarani)
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:54:10 GMT

In article <nazim.712358478@cwis> nazim@cwis.unomaha.edu (The Unknown) writes:
>ahmeda@gtephx.UUCP (Aftab Ahmed) writes:
>
>
>Are you guys blind or what, Costas is the largest jerk NBC ever hired. 
>Open your ears and listen to this jerks and other anouncers of NBC carefully,
>than you'll see what's going on, I never saw a bad olimpics coverage like this.
>Anyway...
>
	
	You are right about Costas.  He made many incorrect comments
	during the opening ceremonies.  Including the fact that India
	could not train it's team on artificial playing surfaces.  
	India has in fact 5 full stadiums with artifial turf and people
	do play on them.




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From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
Subject: Re: Why only ONE british olympic team
Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:23:39 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.063104.10049@osf.org>, sp@mirabeau.osf.fr (Simon Patience) writes:
|
|> And does anyone know why on earth a parade in Spain (oops, sorry
|> Catalonia) should use French? 

International language of diplomacy.... well no actually the modern olympics are the idea of some Frenchy called Peter de Cocotin (or something).  It's all some failed French imperialist marketing gimmick to foist their culture on the rest of the world.  Should have set up a fast food chain.

David.
From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Isn't Olympics for Amateurs?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:37:43 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <Bs6CDJ.1t5@regentdb.uoknor.edu> wee@regentdb.uoknor.edu (Wee Win) writes:
>I always thought(yeah, I know...."I think, therfore I am wrong") that the
>Olympics were for Amateurs.  Can someone please explain the "Dream Team"?
>And isn't Steve Timons a pro?  And what about the Tennis people?  
>
>Or do I just have the olympic dream wrong?

The rule USED to be that only supposed amateurs could compete.  Of course
in the Eastern Bloc many of their "amateurs" were paid by the state.

In any case, a few years ago the IOC decided to leave it up to the 
individual sports governing bodies to decide whether to let professionals
compete.  Thus, the rules vary widely from sport to sport.  In basketball
and tennis, professionals are totally free to compete. 

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov
From: tovah@panix.com (Tovah Hollander)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: 1906?
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:12:31 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

baarniy@IASTATE.EDU (Scott A Coon) writes:
>the "Intercalated Games" ...?

kgirodias@azcc.arizona.edu writes:
>I believe that these Games were held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of
>the start of the modern olympic games. They were held in Greece at the
>site of the 1896 games.

In fact, this subject ties into two previous threads.  One of the main
reasons for holding these Games was the poor attendance and low enthusiasm
of the 1904 St. Louis Games.  Remember, the Danes, among others, never got
there.  And the games themselves weren't really one big spectacle of their
own, but were attached to the World's Fair.  So it was hoped that an "extra"
Olympics, in Europe, would rekindle international interest.  

(And I learned most of this from the aforementioned Wallechinsky book, "The
Complete Book of the Olympics," the recommendation for which I heartily
second.)

-- Tovah Hollander
   tovah@onion.salad.mssm.edu -OR- tovah@panix.com
From: 99siraj@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu (GO! SKINS KILL THE cowboys)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: US B'Ball Team Stat '36 -'72
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:57:32 GMT
Organization: The Catholic University of America

I don't know whether this was posted before; this is the US Olympic
basketball team STAT :

	From 1936 to 1972 US Olympic basketball team record was
62-0 and the avg margin of victory was 33.2 pts. They lost to
the USSR team in 1972. 

MARGIN OF VICTORY			# OF VICTORIES
=================			==============

31 or more					30
26 - 30						 8
21 - 25						 5
16 - 20						 4
11 - 15						 9
1 -  10						 6

Awsome isn't it !!!!!!!!!!!

Source : Sports Features Syndicate Inc.
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From: dube@milton.u.washington.edu (Ric Dube)
Subject: America's Sweetheart
Summary: America's Sweetheart
Keywords: America's Sweetheart
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:25:27 GMT

In keeping with the Olympic spirit, I thought that we should take to the task
of selecting America's Sweetheart. I'd like to know if any of the female
athletes have stricken the fancy of the nation.  Here is a list of past
America's Sweethearts.
1992 Winter-Kristi Yamaguchi
1988 Summer-Janet Evans 
1988 Winter-Bonnie Blair
1984 Summer-Mary Lou Retton
Current Sweetheart-Jennifer Capriati      

Will Jennifer be able to transfer her sweetheartedness Barcelona, or will
it be one of the swimmers (Summer, Anita, Jenny)? Maybe Shannon or Kim?
The suspense is killing me, but those Mcdonald's endorsements await!
The fate of the next People magazine cover is resting on America's pulse!


Dan Paquette (not to be confused with Ric Dube)
From: fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric West)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:29:51 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.olympics
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

Ken Lehner writes:
>Ted Goldblatt writes:
>|>
>|> Actually, the French spelling is always used, not just for _these_
>|> games.  I believe it is because Baron whatever-his-name-was (the
>|> guy who started the modern games) was French, so French was made
>|> the official language.
>
>How much did they have to pay the International Olympic Committee to be
>the "official language" of the Games? ;^)

The French language/spelling is NOT always used; anyone who saw the
American names in the L.A. Olympics or who saw the American Sarajevo team
march under a banner saying "SAD" (the Yugoslavian translation of "USA")
can verify this.  As someone else has already said, French was used so that
they wouldn't have to choose between Spanish and Catalan alphabetizations.
French is always one of the official languages of the Games (along with
English), but it is not the official "parade-of-nations-alphabetization"
language.  Of course, they used French for the Albertville Games, but that
was because Albertville is in FRANCE. :)
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: Re: Cool Arrow Thing
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:42:28 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.142317.13839@ra.oc.com> aba@hp835.mitek.com (Binion Amerson) writes:
>In article <_nkmy+@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>Damn cool way to light the torch. Pretty awesome looking.
>
>But, it looked to me like the torch lit up as the flaming arrow passed _over_
>and _beyond_ the torch.  The lighting was repeated several times and it sure 
>looked like the arrow continued past the torch.  Did anyone else
notice this?

The cauldron let loose a cloud of gaseous chemicals when the arrow
passed over it, thus igniting the flame.  The arrow continued beyond
the stadium, and landed in a blocked-off area.  NBC showed some brief
footage of a guy rushing to extinguish the flaming arrow.  The arrow
is to be given back to the guy who made it.  The 700 or so arrows that
were used in practice will apparently be handed out selectively as
souvenirs and sent to some museums, etc.

NBC said that organizers claim that of the 700+ practice shots, only 2
arrows missed, and both of those happened on a windy day.  =)

Always glad to share a meaningless tidbit, :-),
Rachele
From: F.V.Brasileiro@newcastle.ac.uk (F.V.Brasileiro)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball match
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:49:11 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Peter Wung writes:
> the Brazilians are notorious for their finger pointing, taunting, cussing, and emotional outbursts.  This is not to excuse the American behavior, but I can understand an occasional emotional outburst.  Samuelson is a very emotional player, I have seen him scream and yell at himself, just to get psyched.

Recently the readers of this newsgroup have discussed about the bad behavior
of American athletes (Barckley and Samuelson, precisely). Not only the opinions
expressed im most of the post condemn the athletes attitude, but the refs in
the respective games as well. These are facts. So, can you present some facts?
Do the Brazilian misbehaved when they won the basketball in the PanAmerican
games?

Of course I don't get in the press the same news you get. I'd be glad to now
more about the "notorious" Brazilian misbehave.

Francisco Vilar Brasileiro (Yes, I'm Brazilian!)
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From: ajchien@med.umich.edu (Alexander J. Chien)
Subject: Re: Table Tennis Predictions
Originator: ajchien@monet.dmsv.med.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan - Medical Center
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:21:38 GMT


>Does anyone know if Waldner and Perlsson (sp?) are playing for
>Sweden?  Also, is Kim Tak Soo in the Korean team?
>
>
>
>Daniel Maung
>warsaw@athena.mit.edu


Jorgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner, and Mikael Applegren of Sweden are
all playing singles. And Kim Teak Soo is playing for Korea.
 
-Alex
From: cah@mycenae.cchem.Berkeley.EDU (Charlie A. Henze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: --------Please Read----------
Date: 31 Jul 1992 19:16:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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In article <l7h0g7INNbp2@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu>, ttsai@haydn.crhc.uiuc.edu (Timothy Tsai) writes:
|> An alternate idea might be for those who are posting results to add "RESULTS: "
|> to their subject titles, since these posts seem to be in the minority.

I heartily agree!  This is a great idea (please take note volunteers who post).

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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: Re: MEDAL COUNT su 26.7.
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:25:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.164836.8216@alw.nih.gov> josh@loglady.ninds.nih.gov (Joshua (Summer student)) writes:
>In article <1992Jul26.185554.22119@cs.hut.fi>, killer@punisher.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) writes:

>|>       MEDAL COUNT AS OF 26.7.
>|> 
>Could someone post the standings also. (i.e. how many points per gold, silver, and
>bronze.  i'm pretty sure not all medals are weighted the same.)

I don't think there is any official point system.  NBC lists the
medals in the same way that K Kivimaa did, with # of golds first, and
within that by silvers and within that by bronze...

Rachele
From: wouter@cwi.nl (Wouter Mettrop)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: VOLLEYBALL: Results Men, Pool B
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:40:19 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

MEN POOL B

Cuba         - Holland      : 3-1
Algeria      - Unified Team : 0-3
South Korea  - Brazil       : 0-3

Matches 28-07:

Cuba         - Algeria      : 3-0  (15-4; 15-2; 15-3)
Unified Team - Brazil       : 1-3  (6-15; 7-15; 15-9; 14-16)
South Korea  - Holland      : 0-3  (5-15; 5-15; 7-15)

 



Brazil          2  4   6-1
Cuba            2  4   6-1
Unified Team    2  3   4-3
Holland         2  3   4-3
Algeria         2  2   0-6
South Korea     2  2   0-6

Remaining matches:
      
30-07 Algeria      - South Korea.
      Brazil       - Holland.
      Unified Team - Cuba.
01-08 South Korea  - Unified
      Algeria      - Holland.
      Brazil       - Cuba.
03-08 Unified Team - Holland.
      Cuba         - South Korea.
      Algeria      - Brazil.
      
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From: jayers@hamline.edu (Judi Ayers)
Subject: Re: TripleCast Update
Organization: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:50:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.211649.5089@wuecl.wustl.edu> van@seurat.wustl.edu (Van Vo) writes:
>*STUFF DELETED**
>As for the TripleCast complaints and the argument that getting the TC is
>a vote for rampant capitalism, you are missing simple capitalism.  You
>don't have a RIGHT to get free TV.  Someone has to pay for a broadcast,
>and I, as an advertising executive would not buy a second of advertising
>for the middle of a marathon.  
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^  
You would if you lived in Australia, where they seem to be fair to all
sports and not just a few!!!

>So if you want to watch the marathon, you
>will simply have to pay for it.  If you love marathons enough, more than
>x dollars, then you'll be willing to pay x dollars for it.  If you don't
>like marathons that much, then DON'T BUY IT and DON'T COMPLAIN.

DON'T I WISH I COULD *BUY* CABLE TO WATCH THE MARATHON!!!!  I can't even
do that.  They are NOT showing the Women's marathon, so YES I AM COMPLAINING!!
My letter to NBC shall go out in the next few days!

Judi Ayers
jayers@hamline.edu
>
>Also, for some reason, you guys seem to think that the reason anyone
>would get the TripleCast is to see the US basketball team.  Here's
>some news: I don't give a damn about the US basketball team.  I got
>the TripleCast to see more than 70 hours of world class volleyball
>in its entirety (not cut up by CBS/ESPN).  A steal for $125.  I will
>also get a taste of real fencing as a fringe benefit.  (World class
>table tennis is boring, and remember, I love table tennis)  I feel the
>benefits justify the cost.  Everyone has their threshold, except those
>stupid people who think they are following holy principles.  My
>suggestion:  if you don't want it, don't get it, but don't take away
>our option.
>
>Ah, I feel much better.  I guess I'll have to unsubscribe to this
>newsgroup :).
>
>Van Vo


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From: john@meaddata.com (John Manion)
Subject: Re: NBC - volley Ball Scores
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:25:48 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.143348.11443@tamsun.tamu.edu>, chunduri@ee.tamu.edu (Srikar Chunduri) writes:
|>     Did any one notice that during the highlights shown
|>     on the regular NBC the scoring shown was crazy.
|>     Points were awarded when ever there was a chenge of
|>     service insted they awarded a point.
|>    (One more feather in their cap. :-))
|> 
|>   srikar

You should pay attention.  The game you watched was the 5th game tie breaker
where a point IS awarded for every serve, whether you served it or not.
It's just like a tie breaker in tennis.

I thought the commentators explained it very well myself.

Looks like you get the feather this time!

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From: riff@coos.dartmouth.edu (Christopher P. Riff)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: NBC Volleyball Coverage
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:30:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Boy, was I excited on Wednesday night when Bob Costas
said that Men's Volleyball would be "moving to prime
time" on Thursday.  Boy, was I disappointed when all
they showed was the fifth set.  Boy, was I annoyed when
they showed that fourth and fifth (again) set on the
late night coverage, after already telling us the
final results.

--------------------------
Chris Riff
riff@dartmouth.edu
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIMFINAL: Result-M's 100m Freestyle
Summary: updated timer failure time!
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:38:29 GMT

SWIMMING - Men's 100m Freestyle FINAL
=====================================
at Picornell Pool, Montjuic
 
World Record		48.42	held by Matt Biondi (USA)
Olympic Record		48.63	held by Matt Biondi (USA)

 
Gold	POPOV, Alexandre	EUN	49.02
Silver	BORGES, Gustavo		BRA	49.43	Electronic timer failure
Bronze	CARON, Stephan		FRA	49.50
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4	OLSEN, John C		USA	49.51
5	BIONDI, Matt		USA	49.53
6	WERNER, Tommy		SWE	49.63
7	TROEGER, C		GER	49.84
8	PRIGODA, Ginardi	EUN	50.25


This race was very close (look at the difference between third and sixth
place).

The judges had to use the overhead cameras to determine the silver medal
after an electronic touch pad failed to register Gustavo Borges' time. 

** Results complete **
 
Rod Swift
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From: rivk@quads.uchicago.edu (nora gayle rivkis)
Subject: An exasperated question
Reply-To: rivk@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:19:22 GMT


Why, according to the broadcasters, does *every* athlete who is
expected to do at all well who does not win their event apparently
"crack under the pressure"? I mean, yeah, there's pressure, and
some of the athletes no doubt have their performances affected
by it (one way or the other -- it can help, too), but there is
also such a thing as just having a bad day -- or as having a good
day but simply not being as good as the competition, or as having
an okay day and being outshone by someone who is really 'on', or
as having one's concentration broken by a hundred other things
ranging from an argument with one's coach to having eaten something
that didn't agree with you while exploring Barcelona. What happened
to all the other ways to lose, besides being unable to cope with
having microphones shoved in your face at odd moments? I think the
media is giving itself a little too much credit here...

	-Nora
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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: USA/Japan Volleyball Dispute
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:35:25 GMT

In article <KILLER.92Jul29203108@robocop.hut.fi>, killer@niksula.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul29.155914.22624@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> wang@ibma1.cs.uiuc.edu (Eric Wang) writes:
|> 
|>    NCAA).  Is it really part of the unspoken rules of soccer?  In any case,
|> 
|> Isn't that what sportmanship is?  A set of unspoken rules which most
|> participants adhere to.
|> 
|> But let us not forget the fact that if the FIVB really overturned a
|> judgement call, the US 'protest' is more understandable.
|> I think they should make a counter-protest conserning the late entry
|> of the Japanese protest.  That way the precedent would have to be set
|> aside.

As I noted before, It would appear that the US Volleyball people (note
that the team wasn't there, just the people who were _supposed_ to have
represented them) gave in to minimize the negative impact on the
international image of the US (too late). All I can say is that without a
precedent (before this a game had NEVER been reversed or even replayed from
the point of the error in Olympic competition. In fact, I seem to recall an
incident in Seoul (sp?) [I think it was with Brazil] where the error was
acknowledged but the result was kept.) the next time something like this
happens, the FIVB will have big troubles.

The comparison to soccer, however, was unfair. Soccer is just about as
internationally developed as a sport can get. Any thing that can go wrong has
already and they no what to do about it. This is not the case with volleyball.

Jason W. Solinsky
From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: Olympian Baseball !!??
Keywords: Baseball
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:30:45 GMT

In article <9220914.12010@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, tw@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Weichert) writes:
|> With a shudder I just read that of all sports Baseball has now
|> gone olympic, What in the world......?
|> Not that I don't like Baseball, but it is not really the type 
|> of game one would expect to be played at Olympics, since it has 
|> so little following in the larger part of the world (= non US).
|> Perhaps it goes the same way as basketball, where it took us 
|> Non Americans until 1972 to catch up with the idea of Olympic
|> Basketball (e.g. SU winning against US in Munich)??!
|> 
|> Ah well, perhaps they give out free Chewies, Coke and Burgers!!
|> 
|> Thomas

Only in baseball, professionals don't play and the US team would be happy with a
bronze.

Jason W. Solinsky