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From: kenl@origami.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ken Lehner)
Subject: Amateur vs. Pro (Was: Re: TripleCast Update)
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:56:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.190255.21215@rg.sri.com>, vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad) writes:
|>[much ranting and raving deleted]
|> 
|> I repeat, the only true amateurs who are good are idle aristocrats and
|> millionairs who do not have to work. All other athletes receive money for
|> their ahtletic performance.

Anita Nall is the world record holder in the women's 200m breaststroke.  She
is also a high school student.  Joe Hudepohl is going to the Olympics in the
200m free and a relay, and is also a high schooler.  So, "vlad", are they
"idle aristocrats" or "millionairs" (sic)?  If not, then they must be
receiving "money for their ahtletic performance".  What nefarious sponsor
do they have, other than their parents?

When one uses "all", "none", "never", or "always" in a statement, it only
takes a single counter-example to allow the audience to dismiss the entire
content of the statement, and often serves to cast doubt on anything else
presented by the speaker.
From: cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Cyndi Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: CYCLING: M Team Purs (1/4s), M Sprints (Semis),W Purs (1/4s), W Sprints (semis)
Date: 31 Jul 1992 16:05:00 GMT
Organization: MD Anderson Cancer Center

Denmark (Ken Frost, Jimmi Madsen, Jan Bo Petersen, 
        Klaus Kynde Nilsen), 4:12.270     def.
    Britain (Chris Boardman, Paul Jennings, Bryan
        Steel, Glen Sword), 4:14.350
Italy (Ivan Beltrami, Rossano Brasi, Ivan Cerioli 
        Giovanni Lombardi), 4:15.440     def. 
    Unified Team (Valeri Batouro, Alexandre Gontchenkov, 
        Dmitri Nelioubine, Roman Saprykine), 4:16.685
Germany (Michael Gloeckner, Jens Lehmann, Stefan Steinweg, 
        Andreas Walzer), 4:10.980     def.
    New Zealand (Gary Anderson, Nigel Donnelly, Carlos 
        Marryatt, Stuart Williams), overtaken
Australia (Brett Aitken, Stephen John McGlede, Shaun 
        William O'Brien, Stuart Peter O'Grady), 4:10.438  
        (world & olymp. record, old record 4:11.245, 
        Australia, 1992)     def.
    Czechoslovakia (Svatopluk Buchta, Rudolf Juricky, Jan 
        Panacek, Pavel Tesar), overtaken

Men's Individual Sprint - Semifinals
 - Heat 1
Jens Fiedler, Germany 10.791     def.
     Roberto Chiappa, Italy
Garry Neiwand, Australia 10.912    def.
     Curtis Harnett, Canada
 - Heat 2
Jens Fiedler, Germany 11.279     def.
     Roberto Chiappa, Italy   --final ride
Garry Neiwand, Australia 11.293    def.
     Curtis Harnett, Canada   --final ride
 - Heat 3
none needed

Women's Individual Pursuit - Quarter finals
Hanne Malmberg, Denmark 3:46.959    def.
    Svetlana Samochvalova, Unified Team 3:47.444
Rebecca Twigg, USA 3:46.508    def.
    Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, France 3:46.547
Petra Rossner, Germany 3:41.509    def.
    Leontien Van Moorsel, Netherlands 3:49.795
Kathryn Watt, Australia 3:45.305    def.
    Tea Ritta Vikstedt-Nyman, Finland 3:48.918

Women's Individual Sprint - Semifinals
 - Heat 1
Ingrid Haringa, Netherlands 12.263    def.
    Annett Neumann, Germany
Erika Salumae, Estonia 11.937    def. 
    Felicia Ballanger, France
 - Heat 2
Annett Neumann, Germany 11.889    def.
    Ingrid Haringa, Netherlands
Erika Salumae, Estonia 12.423    def. 
    Felicia Ballanger, France   --final ride
 - Heat 3
Annett Neumann, Germany 12.285    def.
    Ingrid Haringa, Netherlands

That's all I know - except that I am MAD as HE** at
NBC.  Every listing I have seen said that the late night 
shows on Wed and Thurs were supposed to carry track
cycling - but NO CYCLING either night!!!
Maybe tonight...
-------------
All opinions are mine, I tell you, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE, MINE (unless 
you want to rent them for a small fee...)
-Cyndi Smith-------------------cyn@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-----Houston, Texas
-ph: 713/794-4938--------------fax: 713/792-4262
From: RAJA@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Cricket in the Olympics
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:19:33 GMT
 <1992Jul29.022205.22511@tamsun.tamu.edu>
 <1992Jul29.060526.27572@ecst.csuchico.edu>
 <1992Jul29.100406.23629@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In article <1992Jul29.100406.23629@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason
W Solinsky) says:
>
>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.
>
>Jason W. Solinsky

Jason You are making the points for us

I heard a similiar statistic about the olympics , 3 Billion! The fact is this d
oes not mean everyone watches it inits entirety or simultaneously. It is thus o
ne arrives at these mind-boggling numbers. Never mind it is 2 Billion or a litt
le less. IT was VERY large. I know from India, acricket crazy country there mus
t have been about 400 million atleast,etc etc


On a related question you write about the shotput. Precisely that it is how wid
ely a sport is played and not how many play it. Of course one cannot carry this
to unreasonable lengths. By any reasonable standards if Baseball can be an olym
pic sport so can be Cricket and it is a great spectator sport. Not as raucous a
s baseball. The difference is between a fine steak(cricket) and a hamburger(bas
eball)!

cheers....rajagopalan
From: efisch@cs.utexas.edu (Eric A. Fisch)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Future of EUN?
Date: 31 Jul 1992 09:06:18 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: earth.cs.utexas.edu

In future olympics, will their still be an 'EUN' or are their plans to
split them up into their individual republics?

Eric Fisch
efisch@cs.utexas.edu
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIMFINAL: Result-W's 200m Breastroke
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:59:41 GMT

SWIMMING - Women's 200m Breaststroke FINAL
==========================================
at Picornell Pool, Montjuic 

World Record		2:25.35
Olympic Record		2:26.71

 
Gold	IWASAKI, Kyoko			JPN	2:26.65		New OR
Silver	LI, Lin				CHN	2:26.85
Bronze	NALL, Anita L			USA	2:26.88
------
4	ROUDKOVSKAIA			EUN	2:28.47
5	CLOUTIER, G			CAN	2:29.88
6	GIGUERE, N			CAN	2:30.11
7	DALLA, Manuella			ITA	2:31.21
8	PECZAK, Alicja			POL	2:31.76 

** Results complete **

Rod Swift
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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: BASEBALL:  day 4 results
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:54:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.132616.2494@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, gattuso@ssd.comm.mot.com (Christopher Gattuso) writes:
|> RESULTS for July 29, 1992 
|> ------------------------- 
|> Cuba  9,  USA  5 
                  ^ I think that might be 6 -- Jason W. Solinsky
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From: killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: MEDAL COUNT we 30.7.
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:28:51 GMT

[OK, the gymnastics finals are just over (00:25 here at the other
 side of the Atlantic) and here are the medalists of each event.]

[Notable changes:  USA took the second place and Poland jumped to the
 sixth place due to pentathlon and judo.]

      MEDAL COUNT AS OF 28.7.

EUN           15   7   4
USA            7   6   8
China          6   9   2
Hungary        5   4   1
S-Korea        4   0   1
Poland         3   2   1
Germany        2   2   6
Cuba           2   1   1
Spain          2   0   0
Bulgaria       1   3   0
Japan          1   2   3
Australia      1   2   3
Great Britain  1   1   2
Norway         1   1   0
Turkey         1   0   0

France         0   3   5
Italy          0   3   4
Sweden         0   3   3
Romany         0   1   3
Brazil         0   1   0
Peru           0   1   0

Holland        0   0   3
Finland        0   0   1
Surinam        0   0   1
Mongolia       0   0   1
Canada         0   0   1
New Zeland     0   0   1
Belgium        0   0   1

Aranka Binder  -   -   1

The following events are counted:
(WARNING: Includes medalists of the individual events)


M 100m Breast (USA,HUN,AUS)
M 200m Freestyle (EUN,SWE,FIN)
M Free-pistol 60s (EUN,CHN,SWE)
M 100km timecycling (GER,ITA,FRA)
M Weight lifting 52kg (BUL,CHN,ROM)
F 100m Freestyle (CHN,USA,GER)
F 400m Multiple (HUN,CHN,USA)
F Air-rifle (KOR,BUL,---)
F Cross-Country Cycling (AUS,FRA,HOL)

M 4x200m Free (EUN,SWE,USA)
M 400m Multiple (HUN,USA,ITA)
M 100m Butterfly (USA,POL,SUR)
M Weight lifting 56kg (KOR,CHN,CHN)
M Air-rifle 60+10s (EUN,FRA,GER)
M Cycling 1000m time (ESP,AUS,USA)
M Judo +95kg (EUN,JPN,FRA+HUN)
F 200m Freestyle (USA,GER,GER)
F 200m Breast (JPN,CHN,USA)
F 10m Swimjump (CHN,EUN,USA)
F Judo +72kg (CHN,CUB,ITA+JPN)
F Sport pistol(EUN,CHN,MGL)

M 100m Freestyle (EUN,BRA,FRA)
M 200m Backstroke (ESP,EUN,ITA)
M Air-pistol 60s+10s (CHN,EUN,ROM)
M Weight lifting 60kg (TUR,BUL,CHN)
M Wrestling 52kg (NOR,EUN,KOR)
M           68kg (HUN,EUN,USA)
M          100kg (CUB,EUN,EUN)
M Judo 95kg (HUN,GBR,HOL+EUN)
  Skeet (CHN,PER,ITA)
F 400m Freestyle (GER,USA,AUS)
F 100m Backstroke (HUN,HUN,USA)
F 4x100m Freestyle relay (USA,CHN,GER)
F Judo 72kg (KOR,JPN,FRA+HOL)
F Gymnastics team (EUN,ROM,USA)

M 400m Freestyle (EUN,AUS,SWE)
M 200m Breaststroke (USA,HUN,GBR)
M 4x100 Freestyle relay (USA,EUN,GER)
M Swimjump (USA,CHN,EUN)
M Wrestling 48kg (EUN,ITA,CUB)
            74kg (EUN,POL,SWE)
           130kg (EUN,SWE,ROM)
M Weightlifting 67,5kg (EUN,BUL,GER)
M Judo 86kg (POL,FRA,JPN+CAN)
M Air-rifle 60s (KOR,NOR,---)
M Cycling 4000m chase (GBR,GER,NZL)
M Gymnastics team (EUN,CHN,JPN)
M Pentathlon (POL,HUN,EUN)
             team (POL,EUN,ITA)
F 100m Butterfly (CHN,USA,POL)
F 100m Breaststroke (EUN,USA,AUS)
F Judo 66kg (CUB,ITA,GBR+BEL)

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From: kai1@dasher.uucp (Kai Chiu)
Subject: Re: dream team or nightmare team?
Reply-To: kai1@dasher.UUCP (Kai Chiu)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:02:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.193846.2051@noao.edu> lund@noao.edu (Rich Lund) writes:
>
>Hey, Barkley may not be the world's best comedian, but
>people like you need to lighten up.  Must everything said 
>be taken literally, seriously, or as racist slanderous trash?
>
>The fact is that the "Dream Team" has had intense media coverage
>and for the most part these super athletes have been courteous
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^
>respectful and understanding.  They are risking injury to their
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
            
 From  AP's report: The spokesman for US Olym. Comm said today
 that "the Dream Team is out of touch with the rest of the Olympic 
 team," and "Barkley is extremely out of touch with what we
 are doing here."                           

>person, which could jeopardize their careers, to help the U.S.
>win a Gold Medal in basketball.  Most of us are grateful for their
>effort and delighted to see this fantastic  assortment of NBA
>superstars display their talents.  
>
>If the "Dream Team" takes the gold or not, I want to thank them
>for their "Patriotism" and for the marvelous demonstration of 
>basketball skills.  A team of this caliber may never be assembled
>again, so ENJOY it NOW.
>

 If sports only mean physical skills, I rather go to a zoo to watch
 monkeys. Well, you won't understand this, anyway.    As for 
 "patriotism", I think they have done a disservice to this country
 painting an ugly american face for the whole world to see. 
   
>
>Rich Lund
>lund@noao.edu
>
>


Kai Chiu
kai1@dasher.cc.bellcore.com
Bell Communications Research, Inc.              
Tel: (908) 699-7338 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: TOTAL MEDAL COUNT we 30.7.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:03:36 GMT

In article <(~{5K6,F=~})DENG.92Jul29201527@math12.bnlux1.bnl.gov>, deng@bnlux1.bnl.gov (~{5K6,F=~}) writes:
|> That's a nice table. Is it possible to have table like number of medals
|> over number of times each country participated?

That would be an even more meaningless statistic. Total medals at least tells
you how many total medals there were. With average medals you get no information
because the number of medals awarded at each Olympics has increased so much.
The longer a country has been participating, the lower its score.

Jason W. Solinsky
From: johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (John J Humpal)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Who is the commentator in the diving?
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:27:34 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <yzhou.712177156@void> yzhou@void.ncsa.uiuc.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. 
>

	Even worse was one of NBC's swimming talking heads.  NBC was doing
one of their endless "profiles" this time of China's Li Lin.  They intercut
quick rock video style shots of Li pumping iron, doing situps, running etc. 
with cheesecake shots of Summer Sanders posing in a variety of sleek
swimsuits.  The voice over told us that China's swimmers used to train 
under East German supervision AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, DON'T WE!
A quick look at Li's bulging biceps was accompanied by the remark that
"No one has been able to prove that the Chinese swimmers have ever taken
steroids."  End of profile.
	Doesn't this go beyond chauvinism?  Like maybe libel?  At any rate,
NBC showed us plenty of Jenny Thompson and Nicole Haislett lifting cars
and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, but of course no mention of
steroids was made.  Perhaps because it is well within the bounds of 
possibility that a woman *could* build her body up without chemical 
assistance.

-- 
-John

John J. Humpal -- johnh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu -- short .sig, std. disclaimer
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
From: zy5y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU 
Subject: Re: Who is the commentator in the diving?
Followup-To: alt.flame
Reply-To: zy5y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU 
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:19:50 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.153134.15670@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>,
stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb) writes:
|> ......
|> 
|> Let's try it again:
|> 
|> Wendy Lian Williams is the commentator in question.
|> 
|> Let's face it. You can take the homer commentator from home, but you
|> can't take the homer out of the commmentator. Agreed, she may have
been
|> too strident in her criticism in Fu Mingxha, but she didn't take
away
|> from the fact that Fu was head and shoulders above the rest. 
|> 
|> Also, Williams was a teammate of the two US divers, so it's natural
for 
|> her to be rooting for them.
|> 
	Oh, now I see why she was so very arrogant.

|> --Stan Macasieb (stanm@comm.mot.com), waiting for the next Charles
Barkley
|>     technical...

	Me too.

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From: kaufman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Kaufman)
Subject: Re: Codes for Countries
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:16:16 GMT

In article <AYRJOLA.92Jul28224911@vipunen.hut.fi> ayrjola@hut.fi (Ari Yrjl) writes:

>You're not the only one confused with all those codes; Eurosport
>english commentators talked about Libyan swimmer Sunday and then
>thought he was from Liberia...actually he was from Lebanon (his
>country code was LIB). In result list they show flag too,
>that's where I could identify  his real home country...another
>swimmer was thought to be from Solomon Islands when his code
>was SLO. Well, that should have been easier case, it's Slovenia
>as anybody watching ski jumping during Winter Olympics should know :)

Another trick I use when confused is to look at the athlete's name.  In
one case, my first impression upon seeing MON was to think "Mongolia".
Then I saw his name was Francois something, and adjusted my thinking to
Monaco.  One may similarly expect some distinction between the typical
Slovenian name and the typical Solomon Island name.

==Ken
From: desjarly@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Desjardins Lyne)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Table Tennis : Results (2)
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:09:29 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


                          Table Tennis
        Women's Singles Round Robin Phase -- Group A: Insook Bhushan,
Aurora, Colo., def. Barbara Xiao Chiu, Canada, 21-19, 21-17; Deng Yaping,
People's Republic Of China, def. Nadia Rashad Al Hindi, Jordan, 21-6,
21- 9.
        Group B: Alessia Arisi, Italy, def. Elke Schall, Germany, 21-15,
23-21; Qiao Hong, China, def. Cheryl Roberts, South Africa, 21- 7,
21-6.
        Group C: Lotta Erlman, Sweden, def. Polona Frelih, Slovenia,
21-16, 21-10; Hyun Jung Hwa, South Korea, def. Feiza Ben Aissa, Tunisia,
21-6, 21-7.
        Group D: Alison Gordon, Britain, def. Galina Melnik, Unified
Team, 21-15, 21-17.
        Group E: Rika Sato, Japan, def. Ling Ling Minangmojo, Indonesia,
21-8, 21-10; Chen Zihe, China, def. Patience Abena Opokua, Ghana, 21-8,
21-6.
        Group F: Tan Lui Chan, Hong Kong, def. Mary Musoke, Uganda,
21-4, 21-6.
        Group G: Lee Jung Im, South Korea, def. Kerri Tepper, Australia,
21-19, 21-16; Po Wa Chai, Hong Kong, def. Sonia Touati, Tunisia, 21-10,
21-1.
        Group H: Chun Li Li, New Zealand, def. Lily Hugh, Metuchen,
N.J., 21-8, 21-6; Yu Sun Bok, North Korea, def. Helen Amankwaa, Ghana,
21-8, 21-5.
        Group I: Rossy Pratiwi Dipojanti, Indonesia, def. Lisa Lomas,
Britain, 21-12, 14-21, 21-15; Csilla Batorfi, Hungary, def. Maria Cabrera,
Ecuador, 21-11, 21-14.
        Group J: Jasna Fazlic, Independent, def. Maricel Ramirez, Cuba,
21-18, 21-19; Otilia Badescu, Romania, def. Niyati Shah, India, 21-10,
21-14.
        Group K: Olga Nemes, Germany, def. Diana Gee, Dallas, 21-17,
21-14; Hong Soon Hwa, South Korea, def. Sofija Ljubiza Tepes, Chile,
21-6, 21-4.
        Group L: Valentina Popova, Unified Team, def. Yolanda Rodriguez,
Cuba, 21-17, 21-12; Mika Hoshino, Japan, def. Nihal Meshref, Egypt,
21-17, 21-18.
        Group M: Kim Hye Yong, North Korea, def. Ana Maria Godes, Spain,
21-12, 21-17; Xiao Ming Wang, France, def. Suk Yuen Chan, Hong Kong,
21-16, 21-14.
        Group N: Daniela Gergeltcheva, Bulgaria, def. Olateju Bose
Kaffo, Nigeria, 21-18, 21-17; Bettine Vriesekoop, Netherlands, def.
Monica Doti, Brazil, 21-8, 21-15.
        Group O: Mirjam Hooman, Holland, def. Hae Ja Kim De Rimasa,
Argentina, 21-13, 21- 16; Marie Hrachova, Czechoslovakia, def. Lyanne
Miyuki Kosaka, Brazil, 21-6, 21-6.
        Group P: Elena Timina, Unified Team, def. Eliana Esther Gonzalez,
Peru, 21-9, 21-7; Fumiyo Yamashita, Japan, def. Abiola Olawunmi Odumosu,
Nigeria, 21-10, 21-10.




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From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Annoying Horn
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:47:33 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <92212.234559U18689@uicvm.uic.edu> U18689@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
<  Is anyone annoyed by the sound of the horn during the basketball games?
<The horn sounds exactly like the first note of the Olympic theme and every
<time it goes off I'm expecting the theme song to play and NBC to cut away
<to commercials.

I've noticed this, too!  To my ears, the two chords sound the same.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov


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From: fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric West)
Subject: SHOOTING: Results 7/26
Followup-To: rec.sport.olympics
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:51:28 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT

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
______
4.	Dagmar Bilkova		TCH	494.9
5.	Valentina Tcherkassova	EUN	494.6
6.	Lee Eun-Ju		KOR	492.6
7.	Eva Forian		HUN	492.4
8.	Mirjana Horvat (Bosnia-Her.)	491.6
9.	Silvia Sperber		GER	392

A woman from the host of the last Olympics wins the first gold medal of
this Olympics.  Letcheva, the favorite, settles for silver, but watch for
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.


Men's Free Pistol Final

GOLD	Konstantine Loukachik	EUN	658.0
SILVER	Wang Yifu		CHN	657.0
BRONZE	Ragnar Skanaker		SWE	657.0
______
4.	Darius Young		USA	655.0
5. 	Sorin Babii		ROM	653.0
6.	Istvan Agh		HUN	652.0
7.	Xu Haifeng		CHN	652.0
8.	Tanyo Khristov Kiryakov	BUL	618.0
9.	Jerzy Pietrzak		POL	560.0
10.	Stein-Olav Fiskebeck	NOR	559.0
11.	Kim Seon-Il		KOR	558.0
--.	Spas Koprinkov		BUL	558.0
--.	Sakari Paasonen		FIN	558.0
--.	Tai-Hsing Tu		TPE	558.0 

This is the third Olympic medal in a row in this event for Ragnar Skanaker.
It is also interesting to note that the past two gold medalists--Sorin
Babii (1988) and Xu Haifeng (1984) also placed in the top ten this year.
The Unifed Team is the only team to win two gold medals today, thanks to
Loukachik.

MONDAY'S SCHEDULE:

1. Men's Air Rifle (final)
	Favorites include Yuri Fedkin (EUN), Harald Stenvaag (NOR), and
Rajmond Debevec (SLO).  Also watch for Bob Foth (USA), 1988's fourth-place
finisher and America's best hope for a medal in shooting.

2. Women's Sport Pistol (precison and rapid-fire/final)
	In Seoul, Jasna Sekaric won a bronze in this event for her native
Yugoslavia; now she goes for a gold representing only herself.  Among the
women who will try to stop her are Marina Logvinenko (EUN) and Li Duihong
(CHN). 

3. Skeet (prelims)
	Early rounds continue.  Final will be held on Tuesday.
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
From: killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: Re: 1906? [and 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004]
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:51:49 GMT

In <1992Jul30.195954.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift) writes:
>games, but has not been recognised as an offical olympiad.

Actually, in stats it is treated just like a regular Olympic Games.

>It is not the first time the olympic schedule has been "fiddled with".  Would
>you believe that the next Olympic games will be in 1994 and then 1996 and then
>1998 and then 2000, 2002 and 2004?

Simple reason: money...
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