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From: navarrer@bionette.CGRB.ORST.EDU (Roy Navarre)
Subject: Re: RESULTS: Basketball (Day 2... incomplete)
Organization: Biological Computing Consortium, OSU, Corvallis, OR.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:35:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.205011.13094@alw.nih.gov> etchuck@helix.nih.gov (Emil Thomas Chuck) writes:
>At time of posting, the Brazil v. Spain was ongoing.
>
>For those who have to know NOW:
>
>PUR 100 CHN 68
>LIT 87  VEN 79
>GER 64  ANG 63 (WHOA!!!!!)
>EUN 85  AUS 63
>
>AND USA 103 CRO 70
>
>News from that game:
>1) Drazen Petrovic held to ZERO points in the second half. (I haven't seen
>the video, but I think he was guarded by Michael Jordan. Which could
>explain this.)
>
>2) Magic Johnson injured with sprained right leg (couldn't get the
>specifics from NBC radio since the local sports radio station decided to be
>buttheads and pull away from the coverage). Fortunately, all the basketball
>teams get tomorrow off. Unfortunately, if this injury is serious, USA has
>no real point guard to lead the offense. (Hey, can someone fly Bobby Hurley
>over! We need him STAT!)
>
>Box scores for USA-CRO tomorrow, as well as the BRA-ESP score.
>
>--
>Emil Thomas Chuck 			etchuck@helix.nih.gov
>BioSystems 26 (1992) 177-183. (3d author)
>"Spending the taxpayers' money as I want." 
>DISCLAIMER: You don't think I'd speak for the government, do you? 

BOBBY HURLEY!!!!!

WATCH OUT! I'm GONNA HURL!

:)

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From: chaz@meaddata.com (Chuck Sedlacko)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Keywords: protest
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:19:12 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <Bs3wIn.7nH@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, gletty@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Gletty) writes:
|> 
|> None of this addresses the fact that our coach and team should have had a serious
|> talk with the guy that got yellow carded after the first one! I have played in games
|> with horrible refs and know that it is frustrating, but once you get a yellow
|> card, you shut up. Players on that level should have enough sense to control themselves!!
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Officials on that level should have enough sense to control themselves.  All
Samuelson did was question/complain about the call.  He never left the playing
area.  It is only natural to get excited in the heat of the competition and I
didn't see Samuelson do anything to warrant the violation (unlike Barkley's
elbow).  It was the type of call that perhaps can be justified early in match
but not with the game on the line.                            

I believe NBC reported the official who made the call was dismissed and if 
so it was deservedly.  Once the call was made, the Olympic Committee had
no choice but to overturn the match, but it was a call that never should 
have been made. 

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From: Robert.Holton@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Robert Holton)
Subject: BBC coverage
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:03:25 GMT

With all this talk of NBC coverage of the Olympics and the controversy
about the cable coverage I thought I'd let you know what the coverage by
the BBC is like. (Though I'm posting from an American site I actually live
in Belfast, N.Ireland.)

From 9 am through till midnight there is coverage of the games,
alternating between BBC1 and BBC2 with an hour's break from 9-10pm. Total
bliss! There is good coverage of most sports (I've seen more rowing on tv
in the last few days than all the rest I've ever seen added together!)
There is an element of jingoism, but it's not that great and good coverage
is given to non-UK athletes. The commentators all seem to really
appreciate the performances from the athletes, with no disparagement of
nationals of other countries. It's a very good service & I'm enjoying it
hugely!
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From: xgye@whitney.ee.umn.edu (X.G. Ye)
Subject: Re: Shaved heads/ CANADA RESULT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, EE dept.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:22:27 GMT

In <1992Jul28.191006.16884@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> Lei@bnos.csd.bldrdoc.gov writes:

>>       BARCELONA, Spain (UPI) -- Players on the U.S. men's volleyball team
>>shaved their heads in protest at the Olympic Games Tuesday then had a
>>close shave on the court.
>>        The shorn locks were done as a protest against the International
>>Volleyball Federation's decision to reverse the outcome of Sunday's U.S.
>>-Japan game following a Japanese protest. The United States appeared to
>>have won the match in five sets, but the FIVB overturned the decision
>>after an eight-hour inquiry revealed that the United States had won the
>>match with a player on the court who should have been ejected.
>        ``We've all shaved our heads,'' said 6-foot-7 Bryan Ivie of Manhattan
>>Beach, Calif., who did not play against Japan because of an injury.
>>``This is a form of protest to show our disgust. We want all TV stations
>>to make this public and for there to be a worldwide reaction. This is
>>totally unfair.
>>        ``We feel offended because representatives of 23 countries voted
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>against us. They want us to lose. The change in the result, this defeat,
> ^^^^^^^^^^

> The dictator in Iraq has the same feeling because almost whole UN voted
> against him.

Amen!!
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From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: SWIMFINAL: Result-W's 100m Butterfly
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 31 Jul 92 20:48:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.213707.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.180928.26247@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb) writes:
>> In article 1@cc.curtin.edu.au, rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift) writes:
[......] 
>
>Many cases of potential success have been thwarted in the pool.  Just look
>at the Sadovy/Perkins battle with th 3:45.00 World Record race.
>
>> Well, an American won a medal, but it's not the one NBC expected. And
>> the PRC continues to do its thing in the water. 
>
>PRC is the People's Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan (code PRC?)
>PDRC is the People's Democratic Republic of China, commonly known as China
>(code CHN).
>
>CHN, China or the People's Democratic Republic of China, have been doing
>very well in the diving and swimming waters.
>

No, you got it all wrong.  PRC is China(mainland), Taiwan is known as
ROC -- Republic of China.  There is no "People's Democratic republic of
China".  Hmmm..., it does sound close to GDR, do you think those
PRC swimmers remind you of East German women?  :-)  

>Rod Swift
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From: wledder@cs.ulowell.edu (William Ledder)
Subject: Re: NBC :- State owned telecast :-)
Originator: wledder@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:38:12 GMT


In article <1992Jul30.173129.15666@cc.gatech.edu>, kamal@cc.gatech.edu (Kamal Karlapalem) writes:
|> 
|> After watching NBC's olmpic telecast for four days it seems 
|> to be that NBC is using its position as a sole broadcasting 
|> station to thrust whatever it feels like on the general 
|> viewing audience.
|> 
|> I would like to get a good picture of what is going in all the 
|> events in olympics. Not just swimming, diving and the dream team.
|> 

[Additional comments deleted]

	Believe it or not, according to _USA Today_, the ratings for the games
are much higher than the ratings for 1988.  Apparently, NBC decided to change 
their approach for olympic coverage to be "family-oriented".  The article
went on to say that after the 1988 games, the execs at NBC looked at all the
data and determined exactly what the prime-time viewer wanted to see.

	Remember, the olympics have traditionally gotten the attention of all
types of viewers, not just sports fans.  So if NBC changed their approach to 
"all sports, all countries, all the time", the ratings would surely drop and
NBC would lose a lot more than they are already losing.  It's a double edged
sword.

Bill Ledder
University of Massachusetts at Lowell

e-mail addr : wledder@cs.ulowell.edu

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From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:31:52 GMT

In article 24878@athena.mit.edu, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>In article <1992Jul31.023149.24748@risky.ecs.umass.edu>, yfeng@kirk.ecs.umass.edu (Youlin Feng) writes:
>|> If I were an American, I would be so shamed to have such a NATIONAL 
>|> volleyball team.
>|> Those bald guys think they are cool. They do not know they are only
>|> targets of laughing from all over the world.
>|> 
>|> In the course of the match with Japan, one US player ( I forgot who he
>|> is, I think it is Timons) even entered the Japanese player's field and
>|> shout at Japanese players when he finished a attack. The referee should
>|> have given him a yellow card.
>
>Nope, the game was over. In theory that was perfectly legal.
>
>Jason W. Solinsky


Hate to argue with you some more Jason, but in a volleyball match the up ref
is supposed to signal the end of a game and then wave the competeing teams to
their respective end lines.  The players are then excused.  It isn't until then that
the game is considered over.  Technically speaking, I think Timmons should have
been called for an unsportmanlike conduct, I was surprised when he got away with
it.  

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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Tatiana Gutsu (was re: GYMNASTICS: results)
Summary: Gutsu did not qualify for all-around
Keywords: gymnastics
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:54:31 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston

In article <1992Jul29.173051.14242@u.washington.edu> ileana@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ileana Blade) writes:
>rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless) writes:
>>compared with that of all the other competitors.  The top 36 gymnasts
>>qualify (out of 96 competing).  However, only three gymnasts per
>>country may advance to finals... when some have to be "removed" (this
>>always happens to the top nations), the officials continue down the
>>list ....

>Is this what's going to happen so that Tatiana Gutsu can enter
>the all-around individual final? It was so sad to see her fall
>off the beam ...

Everyone was sad to see Gutsu fall... if she hadn't, she would have
posted the highest combined score of the night.  However, even though
she finished overall in 9th place, she will not be able to compete in
the all-arounds because there are three EUN gymnasts ahead of her (S
Boguinskaya, T Lysenko, and R Galieva).

The former Soviets were famous though for claiming that one or two of
their top three qualifiers were injured, and thus giving a qualifying
spot to a gymnast they believed could win the all-around.  Most
notably, in '85 they claimed that two of their qualifying gymnasts
were injured and thus Elena Shushunova and Oksana Omelianchik (the two
best of the Soviet Union at that time) qualified for all-around
finals.  The two ended up tying for world champion.  Also, in '90, at
the Goodwill Games, Tatiana Lysenko (USR) was pulled from the
all-around finals so that Svetlana Boguinskaya could compete.  Bogie
ended up in 2nd behind Natalia Kalinana.  Lysenko and Bogie are in
tomorrow night's all-around final.

Consolation for Gutsu: she made event finals in bars and floor and has
a great chance to win both.

Rachele
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 1992 02:11:45 EDT
From: Mervv <IO10702@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: USA/Japan Volleyball Dispute

I agree that there was a screw up on the part of the refs, and, after watching
the late night show on NBC, I feel that the US protest will turn some HEADS...

According to a certain flat-topped USA player, the United States players will
shave their heads as a protest.  It seems that the Samuelson look is in....

I guess we have to wait till tomorrow and see.....
-Merv
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From: rachele@nysa.cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Barkley is a jerk...
Summary: barkley
Keywords: Barkley
Date: 27 Jul 1992 21:20:48 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston

In article <1992Jul27.205200.1508@javelin.sim.es.com> bgeer@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>jzku_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joeski) writes:
>>In <yzhou.712248144@void> yzhou@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Ya Zhou) writes:
>>>sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate) writes:
>>>>bhat@ccad.uiowa.edu (Dinkar N. Bhat) writes:
>>>>>In article <val.712212490@marsh> val@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Valerie Hall) writes:

>In a late-night replay of an interview with Karl Malone, Karl said he
>was going to have a "talk" with Charles about his unprofessional
>conduct.  From his comments I concluded the other US players see
>Barkley's krap as unnecessary & likely to breed yet more of the
>already strong negative comments regarding the so-called "dream team".

Hooray for Karl Malone!  I am sick and tired of hearing Barkley's
quotes in the paper etc, as they always make my stomach turn; he is so
saturated with ego.  Thank <insert deity of your choice> for players
like Michael Jordan, Magic, etc.

Rachele
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: Re: GYMNASTICS: results
Summary: NBC coverage too American biased
Keywords: gymnastics
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:29:28 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT

In article <a4nmknf.jaguar@netcom.com> jaguar@netcom.com (Crazy Poem Head) writes:
>Why is it that the commentators are virtually ignoring Romania when
>they show gymnasts' performances, except to say that Romania is 'ahead of'
>or 'behind' so-and-so??  I would have liked to hear more about these
>gymnasts whose team came out NUMBER TWO in the world!
>All we heard about was the American team, Svetlana Bouginskaya, and
>Tatiana Goutsu.

For the record, NBC showed 20 American routines, 8 EUN, 3 ROM, and 1
CHN.  That is *crazy*... when they are covering the competition, don't
they realize you can't have a competition without competitors?
(shaking my head).  I am glad they showed many routines, but I wish
they had been more evenly distributed among the nations.  I would have
loved to see more of Romania, especially Lavinia Milosovici who
finished 4th individually!  And what about Tatiana Lysenko from the
Unified Team, who finished 5th??

Hopefully NBC will show some of the work of these gymnasts on Thursday
night.

Rachele
From: astefani@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Stefanidis)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Bob Costas and NBC commentators
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:19:26 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

I do not understand why a specific person is so angry at Bob Costas. I think he
is doing a fine job, he is smart, a true gentleman and quite knowledgable.
It is the individual sports commentators that are really annoying. First, they
are extremely critical of everybody (US athletes included) and that makes me
angry. I am not familiar with all of them, however I am sure that most of them
in their career were not better than atyhletes they are now criticizing. I
would understand Greg Louganis to be judgmental regarding divers but when the
commentator was not exactly the best athlete ever in his sport he/she should be
less God-like! It is extremely disappointing to see this guy with the moustache
running to the US swimmer who won the silver (or bronze) and ask her/him:
"Why? You must be very disappointed! What was the reason for this disaster?"
and things like that. If I were an athlete I would probably push him in the
pool... Bob Costas has often corrected cases like that and that shows he is a
classy guy.
Finally, as somebody mentioned, it is quite disappointing to see NBC showing
only the face of the US gold medalist, and totally skipping a ceremony when a
US athlete did not get the gold! Very bad and unsportsmanlike behavior in
the biggest athletic event. Very low!

Anthony Stefanidis
Ohio St8
From: fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric West)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Codes for Countries
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:16:11 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.olympics
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <9220921.20755@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> dht@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Joyous Dave baby) writes:
>Can someone please post the codes for all (or most) of the countries?

This is what I got from the NBC coverage (about 148 of the 172 countries):

AFG	Afghanistan 
ALB	Albania
ALG	Algeria
AND	Andorra
ANG	Angola
ANT	Antigua
AHO	Netherlands Antilles
ARG	Argentina
ARU	Aruba
ASA	American Samoa
AUS	Australia
AUT	Austria
BAH	Bahamas
BRN	Bahrain
BAN	Bangladesh
BAR	Barbados
BEL	Belgium
BIZ	Belize
BEN	Benin
BER	Bermuda
BHU	Bhutan
BOL	Bolivia
BOT	Botswana
BRA	Brazil
BUL	Bulgaria
CAN	Canada
CAF	Central African Republic
CHI	Chile
CHN	China, People's Republic of
CYP	Cyprus
COL	Colombia
CGO	Congo
COK	Cook Islands
CRC	Costa Rica
CIV	Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
CRO	Croatia
CUB	Cuba
DEN	Denmark
DJI	Djibouti
DOM	Dominican Republic
EGY	Egypt
EUN	Unified Team
EST	Estonia
ESP	Spain
ESA	El Salvador
ETH	Ethiopia
FIN	Finland
FRA	France
GER	Germany
GRE	Greece
GHA	Ghana
GRN	Grenada
GUM	Guam
GUA	Guatemala
GUI	Guinea
GEQ	Equatorial Guinea
GUY	Guyana
HAI	Haiti
HON	Honduras
HKG	Hong Kong
HUN	Hungary
IND	India
INA	Indonesia
IRQ	Iraq
IRI	Iran
IRL	Ireland
ISL	Iceland
ISR	Israel
ISV	U.S. Virgin Islands
ITA	Italy
IVB	British Virgin Islands
JAM	Jamaica
JPN	Japan
JOR	Jordan
KEN	Kenya
KSA	Saudi Arabia
KOR	South Korea
KUW	Kuwait
LAO	Laos
LES	Lesotho
LAT	Latvia
LIB	Lebanon
LIE	Liechtenstein
LBA	Libya
LTU	Lithuania
LUX	Luxembourg
MAS	Malaysia
MAD	Madagascar
MAW	Malawi
MLI	Mali
MLT	Malta
MEX	Mexico
MAR	Morocco
MGL	Mongolia
NAM	Namibia
NED	Netherlands
NEP	Nepal
NCA	Nicaragua
NIG	Niger
NGR	Nigeria
NOR	Norway
NZL	New Zealand
OMA	Oman
PAK	Pakistan
PAN	Panama
PNG	Papua New Guinea
PAR	Paraguay
PER	Peru
PHI	Philippines
POL	Poland
PUR	Puerto Rico
POR	Portugal
PRK	North Korea
QAT	Qatar
ROM	Romania
RSA	South Africa
SAM	Western Samoa
SEN	Senegal
SEY	Seychelles
SLE	Sierra Leone
SIN	Singapore
SLO	Slovenia
SOM	Somalia
SUD	Sudan
SRI	Sri Lanka
SWE	Sweden
SUI	Switzerland
SUR	Suriname
SWZ	Swaziland
TCH	Czechoslovakia
THA	Thailand
TOG	Togo
TPE	Taiwan, Republic of China
TGA	Tonga
TRI	Trinidad & Tobago
TUN	Tunisia
TUR	Turkey
URU	Uruguay
USA	United States
VAN	Vanuatu
VEN	Venezuela
VIE	Vietnam
YAM	Yemen
ZAI	Zaire
ZAM	Zambia
ZIM	Zimbabwe

Other countries that I saw but didn't see the abbreviations:
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Maldives, Mozambique, Fiji,
Mauritius, San Marino, United Arab Emirates, Monaco, Syria.
There are also about 12 other countries attending that I didn't catch at
all.
Can anyone help?
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From: raek@athena.mit.edu (Robyn A E Kozierok)
Subject: Re: GYMNASTICS:  Opinions on Gutsu's new all-around chance
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:57:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.164824.12277@athena.mit.edu> raek@athena.mit.edu (Robyn A E Kozierok) writes:
>
>As many of you know by now, Unified team gymnast Tatiana Gutsu, who narrowly
>missed qualifying for the all-around finals after a fall from the beam, is
>now being given the chance to compete due to an injury of one of her gymnasts.
>As the Soviets had been famous for faking injuries for this purpose, there
>is a good deal of suspicion going around.  Here are my opinions:
 
>4. I feel badly for Roza (assuming it will be she who will be asked to fake
>   an injury) but feel that if her training makes it clear that this is they

Rachele Harless (rachele@cs.rice.edu) has just informed me that she has heard
that it is indeed Roza Galieva who is "injured".  In my opinion this makes it
more probable that it is indeed a scam.

--Robyn
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From: rgd3729@tamsun.tamu.edu (Greg Dilworth)
Subject: Re: Modern Pentathlon:  Unable to post running results	
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:04:05 GMT

Sorry folks but my newspaper (which has been doing a good job up until
today) dropped the ball and I will be unable to post the running
results of the Pentathlon.  If anyone else has them please feel free
to post them.

Hopefully they will make up for this slip tomorrow and also give us
the results of the riding competition which takes place today.

In addition, we should have medal results.

Yours,

Greg

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From: wex@cs.ulowell.edu (Paul M. Wexelblat)
Subject: Madagascar Coup
Originator: wex@cs.ulowell.edu
Reply-To: wex@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: Univ. of Lowell CS Dept.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:58:54 GMT


Not a fan of Costas, but to be fair, the usually staid, often
accurate BBC World Service covered the Attempted Coup in about 2
sentences; the said something to the effect...

10 soldiers took over the radio station and announced the coup;
they were totally ignored by the population so left a few hours later.

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.

-- 
If God had intended us to vote, He would have given us candidates.

	...Wex