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From: evan@hpl.hp.com (Evan Kirshenbaum)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Free Triplecast
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:43:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

In article <1992Jul27.193846.24419@news.iastate.edu> JI.RCB@isumvs.iastate.edu (Robert Bergmann) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.134641@IASTATE.EDU>,
>navy@IASTATE.EDU (Scott V Rivera) writes:
>>On Sunday I turned on my TV to catch the early morniong broadcast of the
>>olympics, and to my dismay, while flipping to NBC I passed the triple cast on a
>>never used channel.  BUT, today (monday) apparently the cable company woke up
>>and now I'm back to my regular (blah too many personal stories) NBC coverage.
>>
>>Did any other fortunate few get a couple of hours of rather entertaining olympic
>>coverage?

>From what I can gather, everybody in the U.S. with cable got a couple
>of free triplecast hours.  Judging from your reaction, it must of been
>effective advertising.  I doubt you would have gotten this if NBC
>wasn't losing their shirt on the deal.  Estimates are that the
>triplecast was only sold to about 2.5% of the homes necessary to make
>the venture profitable.

I was wondering whether this was local or not.  I subscribed for the
weekend days (no flames, please!) and noticed that they were having
trouble with one of the channels: the video (but not the audio) kept
scrambling for a few seconds every couple of minutes.  Eventually they
sorted it out, but as I was flipping channels I noticed that the
telltale "this is a scrambled channel" indication (about a second of
scrambled video before it settles) was gone from that station, so I
surmised that they "fixed" it by dropping the scrambling entirely.  I
assume that at least everyone in Palo Alto was getting it clear.  They
had fixed it by this morning.

Evan Kirshenbaum
    HP Laboratories
    3500 Deer Creek Road, Building 26U
    Palo Alto, CA  94304

    kirshenbaum@hplabs.hp.com
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From: mirsip@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Ivan Popstefanija)
Subject: Re: SHOOTING: Results 7/26
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:10:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.175544.4210@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> hjjcl@usho77.hou281.chevron.com (J.J.Clyde) writes:
>Eric West writes:
>>SUNDAY'S RESULTS
>>
>>Women's Air Rifle Final
>>
>>GOLD	Yeo Kab-Soon		KOR	498.2
>>SILVER	Vessela Letcheva	BUL	495.3
>>BRONZE	Aranka Binder (Independent)	495.1
>                       ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Aranka Binder
>>is the first "Individual Olympic Athlete" ever to win a medal.
>
>Wow!  I didn't know this was possible/allowed.  I thought the Olympics
>were about nationals vs. nationals.  Where is she FROM anyway?
>
 She is from Yugoslavia. As you probably know, Yugoslavian competitors
are not allowed to use their national insignia in these olympic games.
IMHO, she did went to the Olympic games as representative of Yugoslavia
and that dose not make her "the first "Individual Olympic Athlete" ever  to
win a medal".

>
>-- 
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Ivan Popstefanija
From: inde788@Jane.UH.EDU (Ashish Parikh)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Field Hockey Germany beat India 3-0.
Date: 26 Jul 92 17:24:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: menudo.1992Jul26.172427.18029
Reply-To: inde788@Jane.UH.EDU
Organization: University of Houston

Germany defeated India.
Final score was 3-0.
From: srivasan@ucs.orst.edu (Anil Srivastava)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Date: 27 Jul 92 03:40:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Department of Computer Science - Oregon State

In article <1992Jul26.230729.15417@erg.sri.com> vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad) writes:
>In article <1651@hsdndev.UUCP> nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 432-4219) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul24.150250.411@u.washington.edu> sieferme@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman) writes:
>>>
>
>>I'm actually starting to like the commercial coverage.
>
>That's because the athletic competition has not started yet. As soon as it
>starts, and you want to see them and you get to see ugly stupid
>commentators talk to each other for hours with no intention of allowing the
>public to see sports - well, your opinion wil change. Unless you are a
>diving addict and love watching 1000 dives per day.
>
>Employer disagrees.

I agree.  Sometimes it seems that olympic coverage is for commentrators to
parade their "tremendous talent" and big ego's on tv instead of showing
sports.

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From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Re: GRECO-ROMAN WRESTLING: results - 52kg - Final
Keywords: greco-roman wrestling, olympics, 52kg
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:29:05 GMT

I just wrote:

>Barcelona Olympics - Greco-Roman Wrestling
>Tuessday July 28 1992 - Day 3 - Finals: 52kg

    [...]

>Final standings
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Name                    Nat
>-------------------------------
> 1. Jon Ronningen           NOR     <=== Gold
> 2. Alfred Ter-Mkrttchian   EUN     <=== Silver
> 3. Min Kyung-Kap           KOR     <=== Bronze
> 4. Shawn Sheldon           USA
> 5. Bartan Tzenov           BUL
> 6. Valentin Rebegea        ROM
> 7. Ismo Kamaseki           FIN
> 8. Senad Rizvanovic        YUG
> 9. Raul Aleman             FIN
                             ^^^
Of course, that is CUB instead of FIN. Sorry for the mistake.

>10. Said Tango              MOR

    --mack

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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: GYMNASTICS: my opinions of the women's competition on Tue night
Keywords: gymnastics
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:47:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.043059.29401@rice.edu>, rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless) writes:

|> 7. Bela Karolyi, gymnastics' most famous coach, announced his
|> retirement from the coaching of Olympic gymnasts.  He did look
|> somewhat tired out there... but how can he retire now with the '96
|> Games in Atlanta, Kerri Strug not retiring, and two very promising
|> upcoming 10-year-olds at his gym in Houston?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this about the fivth time he's announced that
he's retiring?

Jason W. Solinsky
From: fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric West)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: ROLLER HOCKEY: Results 7/28 and 7/29
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:30:54 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.olympics
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.


			ROLLER HOCKEY COMPETITION
			   TUESDAY'S RESULTS

Pool A: Switzerland 9, Japan 2
	Portugal 1, Argentina 0
	Italy 13, United States 2
Pool B:	Angola 2, Australia 0
	Brazil 6, Netherlands 2
	Spain 5, Germany 1

			  WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS

Pool A:	United States 5, Switzerland 2
	Italy 5, Portugal 2
	Argentina 13, Japan 0
Pool B:	Netherlands 12, Australia 1
	Germany 2, Angola 1
	Spain 2, Brazil 1

				STANDINGS

POOL A		W	L	T	Pts.	PF	PA
Italy		3	0	1	7	29	 7
Portugal	3	1	0	6	52	 5
United States	2	1	1	5	21	20
Argentina	1	1	2	4	20	 8
Switzerland	1	3	0	2	11	26
Japan		0	4	0	0	 3	70

POOL B		W	L	T	Pts.	PF	PA
Spain		4	0	0	8	35	 3
Brazil		3	1	0	6	20	 8
Germany		2	2	0	4	10	12
Netherlands	1	2	1	3	18	21
Angola		1	2	1	3	 7	13
Australia	0	4	0	0	 2	35

			FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE
	(all times Barcelona local time, 6 hours ahead of EDT)

Pool A: Japan vs. Italy, 6 P.M.
	Switzerland vs. Argentina, 7:30 P.M.
	United States vs. Portugal, 9 P.M.
Pool B: Australia vs. Brazil, 6 P.M.
	Germany vs. Netherlands, 7:30 P.M.
	Spain vs. Angola, 9 P.M.
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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:45:42 GMT

nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 432-4219) writes:

>In article <1992Jul24.151946.14687@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> stanm@comm.mot.com writes:
>>
>>IMO, Bob Costas may be the best reason to watch NBC coverage. So, don't

>I have to agree with Stan a 100%. Costas won't put you to sleep and keep
>reminding you of how great Olga Korbut was in '72 with every second sentence
>like Jim 'Zzzzzzz' McKay did on ABC over the years. Costas will move things
>around and he's excellent on the ears. Bryant Gumbel who hosted Seoul
>in '88 was left behind in NYC and we won't see him for the next two weeks
>since Dick 'Oh My' Enberg and Katie Couric will host 3-hour live-morning
>coverage(but don't expect to see alot of action in that time slot).
>>

>-Mark

>Oh MY! I can't beleive it!I'm actually saying something positive about a
>major network...

Did anyone happen to catch the stupid comment made by one of the NBC announcers,during the parade of nations? It went something like this:  "The United States
will be coming up soon because they are using the French alphabet."  The last
time I checked, the French and English alphabets were pretty much the same.
The reason that the US followed Estonia was because they were going in alpha-
betical order according the French names.  United States = Etats Unies.  Pardon
the spelling, since I don't have a French-English dictionary with me.
From: wouter@cwi.nl (Wouter Mettrop)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: SOCCER: Results Pool D
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:12:59 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam

# = number of matches played
W = won
D = draw
L = lost
P = points
F = goals for
A = goals against


Group D
=======

Sweden - Paraguay  0-0
Morocco - South Korea  1-1

Sweden - Morocco  4-0
14. Brolin 1-0
20  Mild  2-0
56. Roedlund  3-0
69. Brolin  4-0
Yellow cards: Johansson (Swe), Moudakkar, Robki,
Bahja, El Badraoui (Mar).

Paraguay - South Korea  0-0
Yellow cards: Gamarra (Par), Lee (ZK).

                 # W D L  P   F A
                 ================
Sweden           2 1 1 0  3   4-0
South Korea      2 0 2 0  2   1-1
Paraguay         2 0 2 0  2   0-0
Morocco          2 0 1 1  1   1-5

remaining matches:

30-7  Sweden - South Korea
30-7  Paraguay - Morocco
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: GYMNASTICS:  Opinions on Gutsu's new all-around chance
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:14:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Jul30.164824.12277@athena.mit.edu> raek@athena.mit.edu (Robyn A E Kozierok) writes:
>3. I think that regardless of whether that rule is not changed, there
>   should be a rule added that 36 gymnasts qualify on the basis of
>   their performance during the team competition (subject or not to the
>   3/country rule as appropriate) and that if any of them should be injured,
>   there may be no substitution and fewer than 36 gymnasts will compete. 
>   It seems absurd to me that a gymnast who has qualified for an individual
>   competition may be replaced by one who has not.

This sort of thing, from what I understand, gets proposed all the time but
gets voted down by the smaller countries, who (rightly) feel that the only 
way that their gymnasts will have a chance to get into the finals would be
to limit the number of entries from the top countries.

r.
From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Message for Silken
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:30:32 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Break a leg!

Henry Choy
From: rgd3729@tamsun.tamu.edu (Greg Dilworth)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Modern Pentathlon:  Shooting results
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:29:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: tamsun.1992Jul28.172949.19646
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University



Results from day 2 of the Modern Pentathlon...

Shooting:

1	Edouard Zenevka		Unified Team	198		1,240
2	Tomas Narkus		Lithuania	196		1,210
3	Dariusz Gozdziak	Poland		195		1,195
4	Mohamed Abouelsouad	Egypt		193		1,165
5	Carlo Massullo		Italy		192		1,150
	Trevor Strydom		South Africa	192		1,150
7	Attila Mizser		Hungary		191		1,135
	Alexandros Nikolopoulos	Greece		191		1,135
9	Anatoli Starostine	Unified Team	190		1,120
	Petr Blazek		Czechoslovakia	190		1,120
	Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek	Poland		190		1,120
12	Roberto Bomprezzi	Italy		189		1,105
	Mostafa Adam		Egypt		189		1,105
	Josue Ivan Ortega Enrizuez	Mexico	189		1,105
	Michael Gostigian (USA)	Newton Sq., Pa	189		1,105
	Maciej Czyzowicz	Poland		189		1,105
17	James Haley (USA)	Lake City, Fla	188		1,090
	Per Nyqvist		Sweden		188		1,090
	Stefan G. Assenov	Bulgaria	188		1,090
	Tomas Fleissner		Czechoslovakia	188		1,090

Other finishers:

42	Rob Stull (USA)		Austin, Tx	182		1,000

If you would like the results for anyone else you thought might have
made the top 66 let me know and I will mail them to you.

Team Shooting:

1	Poland (Czyzowicz, Skrzypaszek, Gozdziak)		3,420
2	Unified Team (Starostine, Svatkovski, Zenovka)		3,345
3	Italy (Tiberti, Massullo, Bomprezzi)			3,330
4	Czechoslovakia (Fleissner, Prokoplus, Blazek)		3,270
5	United States (Stull, Haley, Gostigian)			3,195
6	Egypt (Elerian, Adam, Abouelsouad)			3,180
7	Lithuania (Mocialovas, Staskevicius, Narkus)		3,150
8	Germany (Knappheide, Czermak, Olszewski)		3,120
	France (Bouzou, Ruer, Deleigne)				3,120
10	Sweden (Danielsson, Norebrink, Nyqvist)			3,105	
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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: Cricket in the Olympics
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:26:42 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.002700.16542@news.Hawaii.Edu>, narsimha@null.ics.Hawaii.Edu (Narsimha Polkampally) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul29.093824.22413@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:

|> >Tell me how long one would have to spend in America before you saw somebody
|> >compete in the Shot Put. 
|> 
|> 	Well, for me, it took only a few days.  I saw some university 
|> students practicing. And, have you never watched NCAA athletics
|> competitions?

That's true for VERY few people. Most US citizens will never see an NCAA track
and field competition in their entire life.

|> > I've been here 18 years and never seen it. 
|> 
|> 	That means that you have been watching with blinkers on and maybe its
|> time that you took them off :-) Seriously, I find it hard to believe that you
|> made this statement in earnest.

Its true. And If somebody visited here from India and toured across the country,
not looking for people participating in the shot put, it is VERY unlikely that
thay would find anybody. The only times the sport would be visible to Americans
is if they watched it on TV on the VERY rare occasions such things are shown,
or attended a track and field meet. I'd be willing to bet that if the people
who ask Americans if they know how the Electoral College works, also asked them
if they knew what the shot put is, you'd get the same 30% correct answers.

Jason W. Solinsky
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics,rec.running
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:03:11 -0400 
From: Aaron Golub <ag42+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Olympic Track and Field Predictions
	<1992Jul29.183005@axion.bt.co.uk>

My Men's 100 meter predictions:

everyone has overlooked Ben Johnson:

gold       Ben Johnson   (can)  9.92 secs
silver     D. Mitchell   (usa)             
bronze     L. Christie   (brit)
4th        L. Burrell    (usa)  10.02 secs  ( a close race, all within 4 feet)


200 meter:

gold       M. Johnson    (usa)  19.85 secs
silver     R. DaSilva    (brazil)
bronze     M. Marsh      (usa)
4th        F. Fredricks  (nambia) 20.05 secs

400 meter:

gold       Q. Watts      (usa)  43.5 secs
silver
bronze
4th

I only follow the sprints but I wish grey and spivey well, though I'm
not sure how they stand.

-Aaron
From: jbs21045@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joe Sterbenc)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: US volleyball victory _reversed_ to Japan. Film at 11.
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:14:31 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Heard it on the radio this morning:

The US's close victory over Japan yesterday has been overturned and awarded
to Japan by a committee. Seems a US player yelled at the ref, and no penalty
point was awarded to Japan. That point would have - eventually - won the
match for them. The committee gave them the point and the match.


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From: richter@mcc.com (Charlie Richter)
Subject: Re: Sir Charles and his magical bandwagon
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:23:30 GMT

> Well I just heard snippets from the interviews with Jordan and
> Malone regarding the Barkley incidence.  Now everyone (including
> NBC) is making a big deal of how Barkley is just an abberation.
> Let me be the first one to point out that Jordan and Malone
> (in what appeared to be carefuly rehearsed statements) showed no
> concern for the lack of ethics, sportmanship and general manners
> of Sir Barkeley. Noooo.  Jordan was concerned that people won't
> love them as much anymore and Malone that some of the loving
> public might jump off the "bandwagon".  And poor Barkley is accused
> of being cynical.

It's dangerous to draw conclusions from a few "snippets" of an
interview.  I saw all of Karl Malone's interview on NBC Sunday
night.  I am *not* a Malone fan;  I think he's a thug in NBA games.
However, he seemed quite genuinely concerned about the image of the
United States that Barkley is projecting.  You are correct -- he
did say that the United States basketball team is being treated as
celebrities, and that Barkley could change that.  But he also was
quite blunt that Barkley is projecting an attitude that Olympic
athletes should not have.  (It was a surprising interview;  it's
unusual in this country for someone to criticize the actions of a
teammate.)

I didn't see the Jordan interview, so I can't comment on that one.
-- 
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIM: Result-W's 100m Freestyle Heat 1
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:14:15 GMT

SWIMMING - Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 1
========================================
 
1	YEO, Wei Ling Jocelyn		SNG	0:58.93
2	LAMSAM, Robyn			HKG	0:59.26
3	IKHAGHOMI, Joshua		NIG	1:00.72
4	LECLAIR, Corinne		MRU	1:00.95
5	PICKERING, Sharon		FIJ	1:01.42
6	PINEDA, Ana Joselina Fortin	HON	1:01.50 
7	CABRERA, Paola C Pernarrieta	BOL	1:04.08
8	FREIRE, Elsa Vicente		ANG	1:05.45


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From: tone@m.mscs.mu.edu (Peter Tonellato)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Diving commentary.
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:59:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: spool.3651
Reply-To: tone@m.mscs.mu.edu (Peter Tonellato)
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
Originator: tone@m.mscs.mu.edu

Ya Zhou writes:

> Can somebody tell me who the female commentator is in the diving event?
> She really tried hard to belittle China's divers, who late ranks #1 in 
> the event. It was said that she (the commentator) has won two silvers in
> previous olympics behind Chinese divers. 

Others have given her current name (now married I believe.) However, back
in 1980 when I knew her well at the University of Arizona (where she
competed as the collegiate level) her name was Michelle Menkins. She was
a better than average college diver who really blossomed after college
when she moved to Mission Viejo to dive under the current USA Olympic
Coach (oops - forget his name Ron O'Brian?)

As for your comment about her tendancy to "belittle China's divers", I
guess I have to agree. I felt the same way when I listened to the final's
reporting. The Chinese 13 year old should have been given MUCH more credit
and coverage. You can be sure if a 13 year old American (the youngest to 
win Platform diving and second youngest in history of games to win a gold)
was to win we would hear MUCH more about the situation - new super star,...
Remember that Michelle is a VERY competitive person and American. I know 
this is a poor excuse and I absolutely agree that the NBC commentators have 
an obligation to present objective commentary whatever their background. 
Let's face it when you hire ex-jocks at least some are bound to let their 
own countries sentiments show through no matter how hard they try not to.

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From: hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Keywords: protest
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 03:43:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.225553.26408@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
> [stuff deleted...]
>I think the players are correct when they say that the win was reversed
>because the Japanese donate the most money to volleyball.

NAW, now now! Regardless of whether the ruling was correct or not,
this statement is ungrounded, arrogant and simply disgusting.
Perhaps even flattering, too -- never heard of Japan regarded
as having that much political influence.  The common attitude,
esp. of the US gov., is "Now gimme the money and shut up!" (sob).

Were the representatives all in shivers that Japan might withdraw
all their money?
Very funny.
Or were they all patted on their shoulders, being whispered
You-know-what-you're-supposed-to-do-or-else...?
C'mon!

Wouldn't Mr. Jason Nationalist refrain from hinting excuses that
may be self-soothing but altogether weird and absurd?
"They wanted us to lose ['cause we're the best]" seems a far better blame,
considering how the US team "ousted" Canada and Spain (and Japan, if you wish).

- Yuzuru
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