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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: DIVEFINAL: Result-M's 3m Springboard
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:34:33 GMT

DIVING - Men's 3m Springboard FINAL
===================================
 
Gold	LENZI, Mark		USA	676.53 pts
Silver	TAN, Liangde		CHN	645.57
Bronze	SAOUTINE, Dmitri	EUN	627.78
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 4	MURPHY, Michael		AUS	611.97
 5	FERGUSON, Kent		USA	609.12
 6	MONDRAGON, Jorge	MEX	604.14
 7	JONGEJANS, Edwin	NED	581.40
 8	STATSENKO, Valeri	EUN	577.92
 9	ANDERSSON, J		SWE	562.74
10	KILLAT, Albin		GER	556.35
11	ROURKE, Mark		CAN	540.66
12	LORENZINI, D		ITA	527.73


** Results complete **

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From: dbernard@thewho.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Dream Team challenged...
Date: 31 Jul 92 11:54:57 GMT
Reply-To: dbernard@thewho.Central.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

In article 92Jul31052711@ninja.mit.edu, pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) writes:
 But I do have to agree with the Brazilian player's
>assessment -- from a little bit of coverage I saw of the U.S. team
>playing (I don't even remember what team they were playng against), my
>first reaction was, "Geez, they're toying with the other team!"  This
>was before I heard anything about other teams' players complaining.

	They probably are toying with the competition, but the alternative
	would be for the US Team to play deadly serious B-ball... resulting
	in an additional 30 points of spread...

		Dave
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: Re: SILTS <-- Sports I'd Like To See!
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:18:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.002437.27737@erg.sri.com>, vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad) writes:
>>  Synchronised drowning
>>  100m crab walk
>>  Egg-and-Spoon marathon  (gruelling 42km event...  Don't drop the egg)
>>  Chess  (yawn)
>>  Pancake flipping  (famous chefs about to make the perfect souffle)
> 
> You should not equate pancake flipping to chess. By doing that you insult
> an oppressed minority: housewives. 

Sports I'd Like To See.  Hmmm.  That title sounds complimentary to me...

Anyway, I did not use gender-specific monikers.  Note that chef does not
equate with housewife.

I am sorry, but you erred.  I am sure the male chefs of the world would also
be invited to the pancake flipping events at Atlanta.  But would they have
the women's and men's events in this competition.  I think that each gender
should play each other in these events.

Rod
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From: JI.RCB@isumvs.iastate.edu (Robert Bergmann)
Subject: Re: Mr. Solinsky insults Jews along with the Chinese
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:38:46 GMT

>Mr. Solinsky, even assuming you're correct about China, does it ever occur
>to you that there is more that makes a Holocaust than the body count alone?
>
>        -Nora
>

I case you haven't noticed, Mr. Solinsky appears  to  respond  to
everything  even  when  he  has no knowledge of the subject.  His
comments  don't  deserve  your flames.  Just put his name in your
kill file and skip his crap!

Jason W. Solinsky - Not!!!!!
From: helena@cs.cornell.edu (Helena R. Dias Lourenio)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Roller Hockey
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:45:47 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

Can someone,please, post the results on roller hockey (demostration sport).
My country  (Portugal) has a good possibility to win, and I don't get any 
news about this sport in The United States. Thanks.
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: GYMNASTICS: results
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:00:13 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT

Since I am in the middle of watching NBC tape delayed coverage, I
can't write all the results.  But I just thought that I'd let everyone
know that Kim Zmeskal fell from the balance beam in the compulsories.
She is currently in 32nd place.  Shannon Miller, on the other hand,
hit all of her routines and is in 1st place.

Zmeskal is now in danger of even qualifying for the all-around... only
three per country may go.  Miller, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, and
Dominique Dawes are all ahead of Zmeskal.

Second was Svetlana Boguinskaya (EUN), third was Henrietta Onodi
(HUN), and fourth was L. Milosovici (ROM).  The EUN is currently in
first with the USA in second by .50 and ROM in third.

More complete results later.

Rachele

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From: kai1@dasher.uucp (Kai Chiu)
Subject: Re: Proud and Angry
Reply-To: kai1@dasher.UUCP (Kai Chiu)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 14:24:50 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.130304.9741@waikato.ac.nz> higham@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>
>I find it fascinating that the Chinese swimmers have made such huge
>improvements. Although I am the first to admit that I do not follow swimming to
>any major extent, I have watched the Olympics with interest over many years and
>do not recall many Chinese swimmers taking gold medals. I may be wrong though.
>Neverthess, I think the reaction you list above is understandable given the
>suddeness of the success of the swim team. I'm sure there are those who would
>say its down to hard work, good coaching etc, however, I think that most people
>will realize that drug abuse is fairly rife in Olympic sports and the Chinese,
>like the E Germans, Bulgarians before them +  many others, are merely pillboxes.
>A post the other day to the group mentioned a Canadian article which claimed
>that many US athletes were sent memos advising them of when athletes should
>stand down from their drug programmes to avoid detection. A couple of days ago
>a similar article appeared in the Times of London concerning the Chinese team.
>I think you have to blind not to see that many, many athletes use performance
>enhancing drugs. Maybe the Chinese swimmers are, maybe they're not, who knows,
>but its easy to be a little sceptical and cynical about the whole thing.
>-- 
>Tom Higham,		        "If ever somethin' don't feel right to you,     
>Radiocarbon Dating Lab,	        remember what Pancho said to the Cisco Kid:
>University of Waikato,	        'Let's went, before we are dancing at the
>Hamilton,		        end of a rope, without music.'"  
>NEW ZEALAND.		                   Sailor Ripley, "wild at heart".
>Higham@waikato.ac.nz
>			  

I see. No wonder the new zealand team did not win many medals - they
are drug-free!  Well, if they did won some, (given the proceived honesty
of New Zealanders, it is not very likely), I cannot be convinced
unless you have checked their urine. But even though, how can you
be sure they did get some fixes weeks ago?
unless you have checked their 

Kai Chiu
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From: etchuck@helix.nih.gov (Emil Thomas Chuck)
Subject: Cumulative Statistics for USA Men's Basketball Team (3 games)
Summary: Cumulative stats for Dream Team after 3 games
Keywords: statistics, cumulative statistics, Dream Team, USA, basketball
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:22:52 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:00:00 GMT

Corrections to previous stats:
USA-CRO: I had
Blocks	8	(Robinson 3, Ewing 2, Jordan 2, Drexler 2, Robinson,
		Ewing, Bird, Barkley, Johnson)

I can't explain why this was. I tried to find my old Washington Post to
verify that I typed what I typed in correctly, but I believe I did mistype.
More likely, there were 7 blocks with Robinson 3, Ewing 2, and Jordan 2.
The rest seem to be taken from my turnover stats lines. 

USA-GER: I had	M	FG	FT	3FG	PT
Bird		21	7-11	2-3	3-7	19
Drexler 	18	3-4	0-0	1-4	9
Mullin		28	5-8	0-0	1-2	13

There's something wrong with the calculus. All previous FG records include
all three-point attempts so that when adding up the total individual
points, one has (FG made x 2) + FT made + 3FG made. This is not the case
with Drexler and Mullin: their points seem to be calculated as
(FG made x 2) + FT made + (3FG made x 3). I have adjusted for this in this
cumulative statistics grid by listing Drexler as 4-8 in FG and Mullin as
6-10 FG. I am not sure why Bird's scores use the old calculus while it
seems that Mullin, Drexler, Pippen and Jordan's were not.


CUMULATIVE STATISTICS FOR USA MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM
G-M:	Games played-minutes played
FG: 	Field goals made-attempted
3FG:	Three-pointers made-attempted
FT:	Free throws made-attempted
O-TR:	Offensive-total rebounds
A-TO-B:	Assists-turnovers-blocks
PF-DQ:	Personal fouls-disqualifications
P:	Points
PPG:	Points per game

Player	G-M	FG	3FG	FT	O-TR	A-TO-B	PF-DQ	P-PPG
Barkley	3-62	25-35	0-0	8-11	8-13	7-4-0	10-0	58-19.3
Bird	3-56	12-21	5-11	2-3	0-7	3-1-2	4-0	31-10.3
Drexler	3-64	13-23	1-7	4-6	3-7	8-3-0	7-0	31-10.3
Ewing	3-43	8-14	0-0	1-2	3-9	0-1-4	12-2	17- 5.7
Johnson	2-28	2-4	0-0	6-6	0-5	11-3-0	0-0	10- 5.0
Jordan	3-70	21-42	2-9	2-7	2-5	17-4-2	6-0	46-15.3
Laettner3-32	7-10	1-2	7-8	1-9	0-0-0	4-0	22- 7.3
Malone	3-57	20-28	0-0	9-12	3-13	9-1-4	3-0	49-16.7
Mullin	3-74	10-20	2-6	6-7	1-5	11-2-1	4-0	28- 9.3
Pippen	3-67	8-15	1-4	5-8	1-4	20-6-0	4-0	22- 7.3
Robinson3-47	5-11	0-0	6-9	1-10	2-3-5	5-0	16- 5.3
TEAM	3-600	131-223	12-39	56-79	23-87	88-28-18 59	330-110.0
		.587	.308	.709		3.142A/T

OPP	3-600	67-196	17-68	35-57	15-57	30-51-7	51	186- 62.0
		.342	.250	.614		0.588A/T

Stockton, of course, did not play for the US.
Any mistakes in calculations are my own or any misprogramming in my
calculator. 
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DISCLAIMER: You don't think I'd speak for the government, do you?
From: liu10@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Liu)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: ***U.S. Olympic Team List Wanted!!!***
Date: 25 Jul 92 05:53:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Jul25.015316.14153
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I think someone has posted a complete list of the U.S. Olympic team before.
I couldn't find it any more so would someone please post the list again or
mail me a copy of the list?  Thanks a lot in advance.
-- 

Eric Liu
liu10@husc.harvard.edu
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From: raek@athena.mit.edu (Robyn A E Kozierok)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Keywords: protest
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:49:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.133916.21471@oakhill.sps.mot.com> millerm@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Mikemoe) writes:
>As soon as someone finds out the results of the
>Japanese protest of yesterday's match, please
>post it.
>

This protest has been decided in favor of Japan.

This means that Japan will count a win for that match, and the Americans a
loss.  The score will be posted as it would have been had the ejection and
penalty point ended the match as it "should have".
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIM: Result-M's 400m Freestyle Heat 1
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:18:31 GMT

   BARCELONA, July 29 Reuter - Olympics swimming results today:
   Men's 400 metres freestyle
   Heat 1
 1.  Hisham Al Massri (Syria)            4 minutes 00.69 seconds
 2.  Gustavo Bucaro Ortiz (Guatemala)          4:11.48
 3.  Luis Medina Gantier (Bolivia)             4:11.77
 4.  Helder Torres Quintana (Guatemala)        4:20.38
 5.  Hussein Al Sadiq (Saudi Arabia)           4:21.44
 6.  Jean-Paul Adam (Seychelles)               4:40.93
   Did not start: Carl Harvie Probert (Fiji)

Rod Swift
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIM: Result-M's 100m Breaststroke Heat 8
Summary: results complete
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:38:47 GMT

SWIMMING - Men's 100m Breaststroke - Heat 8
===========================================

World Record		1:01.29
Olympic Record		1:01.65

1	VOLKOV, Dmitri			EUN	1:01.74		Qualified
2	ROGERS, Philip			AUS	1:02.10		Qualified
3	ROSZA, Norbert			HUN	1:02.25		Qualified
4	GUTTLER, Karoly			HUN	1:02.28
5	CLEVELAND, Jonathon		CAN	1:02.73
6	CHEN, Jianhong			CHN	1:03.08
7	LOPEZ MIRO, Sergio		ESP	1:03.69
8	BEIGA, Nerijus			LIT	1:05.17


** Results complete **
  
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From: brianc@jekyll.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC DIVING COMMENTARY:ABSURD
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:42:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Francisco, Dept of Lab Med

In article <1992Jul30.141414.9061@uoft02.utoledo.edu> ncoppis@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
>I completeley agree that the woman commentrator for diving was
>such an incompetent .......... that it was disgusting to watch as 
>she passed derogatory comments on the Chinese divers. 

Yeah OK so her social commentary was unecessary... and even though I
don't know anything about diving I thought her diving commentary was
interesting and I could start seeing what the judges would look for in
a dive.  I started to predict the scores before anyone would say
anything... and I was starting to come pretty close to the average
score per dive.  When she talks about diving itself I think she is
very competent.


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From: teuben@lynx.astro.umd.edu (Peter Teuben)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: NBC -> US MAIL
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:40:03 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of Maryland, Astronomy Department


I've seen a lot of good comments about the NBC coverage on this newsgroup.

Perhaps a bit late by now, but we should send NBC a copy of the traffic in
 this newsgroup. Even the (few) good ones, they do deserve a little credit
after all (:.)). 

Perhaps a big stack of US MAIL (who can afford all the paper..) somebody
in NYC should hand deliver.  

I`m not so sure if they really know what's going on in the (sports) world. Take
John Tesh, he's from *ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT*.

	Peter
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From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: SHOOTING: a query...
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:06:55 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Jul27.205807.21568@sol.UVic.CA> asrini@sanjuan (Anand Srinivasan) writes:
<In article <1992Jul27.155128.321@news.acns.nwu.edu> fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (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
<
<>her later on as she defends her gold in the smallbore rifle.  Aranka Binder
<>is the first "Individual Olympic Athlete" ever to win a medal.
<
<what does individual athlete mean? how can someone not belong to
<any country? maybe i missed something before, could someone explain!

Because of the sanctions against Yugoslavia (which is now really just
Serbia and Montenegro), the team from that country has to go under the
name of Independent Team, and participate under the Olympic banner.
Miss Binder is a Serbian.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov
From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Barkley is a jerk...
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:44:09 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <kd2fptz@Unify.Com> veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf) writes:
>In article <AeRBiSi00Uh_87bBxQ@andrew.cmu.edu>, James T Graves <jg4o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> 
>> Normally (for example, in a typical NBA game) I'd say that that wasn't
>> worthy of an ejection.  However, at the time of the elbow, the USA had
>> such an obscene lead that the penalty for a technical -- 2 shots and
>> posession -- was laughably trivial.  For that kind of puny penalty,
>> Barkley could have had a slugfest.  I think the *only* way to
>> effectively punish such a flagrant display of animosity and poor
>> sportsmanship is to eject the offender.  It's the only response that has
>> any effect.  
>> 
>
>There's another way to punish him. If I were the coach I would have
>replaced him immediately and not letting him play anymore during at
>least this game.
>
	Yeah, but look who's the coach:  Chuck Daly.  Did someone
mention Bill Laimbeer recently :-/

-- 
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Xref: sparky rec.sport.olympics:1290 soc.culture.british:10813
From: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: Why only ONE british olympic team
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:27:00 GMT
Reply-To: ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

In article <1992Jul28.124514.14930@cs.hw.ac.uk> nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor) writes:
> in the Commonwealth Games every little bit of the UK competes separately.

Bzzzt! The UK consists precisely of England, Scotland, Wales and NI.
Since the 'little bits' are largely populated by millionaires who board
their children at English public schools, I would have thought the 
indigenous sport scene was pretty non-existent. Anyone know of any 
soccer geniuses from Gibraltar?

>Anybody got any more? We must be called the UK in something!

Yes, the Eurovision Song Contest.
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From: trice@bnr.ca (Tony Rice P885)
Subject: Re: John Tesh
Keywords: annoying
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, BNR-RTP 
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:26:28 GMT

Has anyone noticed that NBC has used ever single song off of John Tesh's 
Tour de France CD (he is a musician as well, in case anyone didn't know)

I wonder if he insisted on hosting if they used his music?  (As a commentator
he makes a great musician)

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From: bcschu@skws02.monsanto.com (Brett Schultz)
Subject: Difference between CIS and EUN
Organization: Monsanto Company
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:13:08 GMT

What is exactly the difference between the Unified Team and the Commonwealth
of Independent States.

I have noticed that the Unified Team is in the gymnastics and the Commonweatlh
of Independent States is in the basketball (men's).

Is it that for some sports the country is split and some they came together???

Thanks

Brett


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From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Subject: Re: Cricket in the Olympics
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:01:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.100406.23629@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.060526.27572@ecst.csuchico.edu>, jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali) writes:
>
>|> An estimated 2 BILLION people watched Pakistan defeat England in the 
>|> Cricket World Cup in Melbourne earlier this year.  
>
>This is pretty rediculous. Do you realize the incredible disruptions that would
>occur if this happened. I find it hard to believe that their have ever been
>2 Billion people watching TV simultaneously.

That is what the Channel 9 (Aus.) Commentatots said.  Maybe it was a rough
estimate:-).  American networks often make calims of over billion viewers
for such things as Superbowl and Heavyweight fights,  although I have not
heard one for these olympics.

j n a
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