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From: leyfre@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Frederic Leymarie)
Subject: Men 100m flat run
Originator: leyfre@gauguin.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Keywords: Ben is back
Organization: McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 20:11:42 GMT


All the favorites qualified today for the semis -- to be held tomorrow morning.
That includes Burell (USA), Christie (GBR), Hendricks (?), Surin (CAN) ...

...

and Ben Johnson (CAN) !! (well he was not a favorite before the start of
the Olympics I guess ...;-)

I am curious about what people think outside of Canada about Ben's
comeback ... Here we are rather puzzled; should we cheer? should we "cry"?

--
BTW, Christie looks in great shape (he finished in front of Burell in his
heat, in the quarter of final); but my memory tells me he was also involved
in the steroids scandal at the time of Seoul ... Was he disqualified?
Or was it just a rumor at the time?

--

Also, for the Canadian crowd: Guillaume Leblanc (CAN) won a silver medal
today in the 20km (walk). Some may remember he was 4th in '84 in Los Angeles;
quite a long career for the "wonder of Chicoutimi" (that's in Quebec, in case
you wander ;-). Leblanc will compete in the 50km next week.

A Spaniard came 1st in the 20km; a Mexican was 3rd.
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From: thorn@diku.dk (Peter Tjornsted)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: VOLLEYBALL: Results Men, Pool A
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:24:23 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

wouter@cwi.nl (Wouter Mettrop) writes:

>Italy           1  2   3-1
>Spain           1  2   3-2
>United States   1  2   3-2
>Canada          1  1   2-3
>Japan           1  1   2-3
>France          1  1   1-3

Japan won against USA 3-1!!! Aparently the officials forgot a japanese point
						     ??????
at 14 - 13 to Japan in the 4th set.

Peter alias thorn@freja.diku.dk
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From: D61O@br2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (One of 100 millions ZHANGs)
Subject: Re: NEWS: Swim Summary (30/7) & Drug Tests
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:18:40 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20
Organization: Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

In <1992Jul31.004706.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

< Sports News - Swimming and Drugs
< ================================
< 
< 
< Swimming events today  (30 July):
< ---------------------------------
< 
< Six medals will be determined today at the Picornell Pool, Montjuic.
< 
< Already, the pool at Barcelona have given three world records and over ten
< olympic records.
< 
< The latest comes from LI, Lin (CHN) who set a new record in the Women's 200m
< Individual Medley only a few moments ago.
< 
< China, previously never to have won a medal in Olympic swimming, has cleaned
                    *********************************************
< up in the women's events, with LI, Lin grabbing some of China's 3 gold medals
< from these games.
< 

You got an extremly short memory: they won several medals at last Olympic games
in Seoul, but non gold medal. 

======================================================================
J.Z.
d61o@br2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
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From: asrini@sanjuan (Anand Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: Cricket in the Olympics
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:04:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.060526.27572@ecst.csuchico.edu> jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.022205.22511@tamsun.tamu.edu> gopal@tamsun.tamu.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.205320.14639@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> rajah@soda.berkeley.edu (Raja S Kushalnagar) writes:
>>(stuff about baseball and cricket deleted)
>>
>>He he! You should have seen a recent article in Houston Chronicle giving a
>>map of all the countries which play baseball.Almost every country except those
>>in Central Africa and two countries in South America are supposed to play 
>>baseball.Imagine baseball being played in countries like Bhutan,Bangladesh.
>>The whole of China,India, SriLanka are included as places where baseball is
>>played.In my entire stay in India( 2 states and long visits to 6 other states)
...
>>map play the game.Actually I think more people play cricket in America than
>>the number who play baseball in south asia.(not Far-East or south east asia)
>>Gopal
>
>An estimated 2 BILLION people watched Pakistan defeat England in the 
>Cricket World Cup in Melbourne earlier this year.  
>

and 65% to 70% of them are from the sub-continent? (Ind,Pak,Ban,SL)
the problem is the high concentration of the game in a particular
area, though countries like Germany are members of ICC (?).

>And closer to home, an estimated 80,000 people read the cricket scores
>on usenet, most of them in the US.  This far exceeded the readership of
>any sports related newsgroup.
>
>Just thought you'd like to know.
>
>j n a


A S
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From: stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb)
Subject: Re: Bob Costas and NBC commentators
Reply-To: stanm@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:32:08 GMT

In article 10091@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu, aksimha@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Arun Simha) writes:
>  ...for, it is going to be held here in 1994 (GOD...NOOOOOOO). I bet that
>  Costas will be the commentator during the 1994 Cup and show his ignorance
>  again. "I had to search for Barcelona in my Atlas"...Indeed! 
>

Gee, do you think a lot of Americans knew where Barcelona was before 
the Olympics? Given the rather Americentric view we have of the world,
I find the comment amusing. And distressing.

Think about it: an American broadcaster brings such a subject to our
attention. Pretty deep, eh? 

--Stan Macasieb (stanm@comm.mot.com)
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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: US-Japan Volleyball: Read These Facts!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:56:10 GMT

In article <!_qm=5p@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

|> This over-turning of a match was >unprecedented< in FIVB volleyball.

I think that the fundamental error here was not in overturning the match,
but in over turning a judgement call. This is roughly akin to Fay Vincent
overturning and Umpires Call of safe 24 hours after a World Series game,
thus ending the game and giving it to team A after team B had one it on a
2-run rally with 2 out in the ninth.

This is like destroying the peer-review system. Based on this unanimous
decision, the FIVB may now question ANY DECISION made by the referees in any
volleyball match. Whereas the judgement calls of the officials in almost
every single sport are final, the final decision on all calls in International
Volleyball has been placed in the hands of a 23 member committee.

Jason W. Solinsky
From: rob@cwi.nl (Rob van Rooijen)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: SOCCER: results group C
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:22:43 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam



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


Group C
=======

Spain - Colombia  4-0
10. Guardiola 1-0
37. Quico 2-0
40. Berges 3-0
70. Enrique 4-0
Red cards: Valenciano, Cassiani (Col), Lopez, Abelardo (Sp)  (really!!)
Yellow cards: Cassiani, Calero, Aristizabal, Santa, Canas, Lozano (Col),
              Ferrer, Guardiola, Abelardo (Sp)

Qatar - Egypt  1-0
73. Nooralla 1-0
Yellow cards: Khashba (Eg), Suwait (Qat)

                 # W D L  P   F A
                 ================
Spain            1 1 0 0  2   4-0
Qatar            1 1 0 0  2   1-0
Egypt            1 0 0 1  0   0-1
Colombia         1 0 0 1  0   0-4

remaining matches:

27-7  Colombia - Qatar
27-7  Spain - Egypt
29-7  Colombia - Egypt
29-7  Spain - Qatar


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From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: What is NBC doing ?
Date: 27 Jul 92 01:20:07 GMT
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <l76jcdINN70i@saltillo.cs.utexas.edu> bhala@cs.utexas.edu (Bhalchandra Ghatate) writes:
>	Have all the good events been transferred from
>the regular broadcast to cable ?.  They didnot show the
>Womens 100 mtrs Freestyle final nor the Mens 100mtrs Breast final
>where the Americans got medals.
>	This must be a ploy to make viewers pay $100 for the
>triplecast.

They said these events would be shown on tonight's prime time show,
and I'm sure they will be.  Let's not get into an argument about
the pros and cons of tape-delaying.  

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov

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From: gletty@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Gletty)
Subject: Re: Bob Costas and NBC commentators
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:44:56 GMT

stanm@comm.mot.com (Stan Macasieb) writes:

>In article 10091@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu, aksimha@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Arun Simha) writes:
>>  ...for, it is going to be held here in 1994 (GOD...NOOOOOOO). I bet that
>>  Costas will be the commentator during the 1994 Cup and show his ignorance
>>  again. "I had to search for Barcelona in my Atlas"...Indeed! 
>>

>Gee, do you think a lot of Americans knew where Barcelona was before 
>the Olympics? Given the rather Americentric view we have of the world,
>I find the comment amusing. And distressing.

A lot of Americans can't find America on a map!
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From: wjin@nmsu.edu (Wang Jin)
Subject: Re: Proud and Angry
Organization: Computing Research Lab
	<scrotch.712369624@milton> <Bs4L6o.HK2@acsu.buffalo.edu>
	<1992Jul30.130304.9741@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:06:10 GMT


> 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.

You don't really mean this, do you?

> 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,     
Interestingly, Chinese swimmer has never been tested positive. On the
other hand one of the American swimmer Angel Monita (spl ?) who was in
the gold winning 4*100 freestyle team was test positive in 1988! What
this can tell you. may be something or may be nothing.

Jin Wang
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From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball match
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:17:55 GMT

In article 10601@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com, rpendse@velveeta.mfg.hou.compaq.com (Raju Pendse) writes:
>I think the whole match was a fiasco and the umps did screw up the match, but
>in the end I think justice was done. Regardless, the behaviour of the US 
>player has totally been lost in this confusion. No one who shouts or argues
>with the ump should be made into a hero of sorts as the US team has done by 
>allegedly shaving their heads. Irrespective of the umps performance the fact
>that this guys bad behaviour cost US the match. This fact has been totally lost
>by everybody. The umps did not, nor did the officials for overturning the result, it was the unsportsmanlike behaviour of the player that cost the US the match.
>If I was the US coach I would make sure this player gets censured for his
>behaviour just as I would expect Chuck Daly to caution Barkley for his 
>unsportsmanlike conduct in the games so far.
>
>Raju Pendse

I think you are being much too harsh on the american volleyball players.  Besides,  volleyball refs tend to be a lot quicker on the draw than any other sport I have seen.  The referee in a volleyball match usually has absolute control over the match.  I think the up ref blew it by not taking control of the match initially.  The american players' behavior was actually not that bad compared to most of the world.  Try to catch either the Cubans, the Italians, or the Brazilians.  Talk about bad sportsmanship, 


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.
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From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC Coverage
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:35:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL

In article <1992Jul31.081407.9238@news.stolaf.edu> alvstad@mari.acc.stolaf.edu (Joel D Alvstad) writes:
>Maybe I should clarify myself...
>	What I really should have said was that if NBC is going to show the
>medal ceremony, they should show ALL THREE competetors and ALL THREE flags
>being raised.

Now this is something I agree with WHOLEHEARTEDLY.  In fact, of all the
complaints about NBC's coverage that have been expressed on this
newsgroup, this is the only one that I strongly agree with.  As
I've said before, I think it would even be more "patriotic", if
that's what NBC wants, to show all three flags with the US flag
at the top.  Showing just the one flag, or the face of the one
competitor, gives no context to the overall scene.

Ed
ed@wente.llnl.gov


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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIM: Result-W's 100m Butterfly Heat 5
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:27:40 GMT

   Heat 5
 1.  Franziska Van Almsick (Germany)                1:00.02
 2.  Catherine Plewinski (France)                   1:00.03
 3.  Summer Sanders (US)                            1:00.38
 4.  Inge De Bruijn (Netherlands)                   1:01.12
 5.  Therese Lundin (Sweden)                        1:01.38
 6.  Bettina Ustrowski (Germany)                    1:02.07
 7.  Maria Pelaez Navarrete (Spain)                 1:02.79
 8.  Samantha Purvis (Britain)                      1:02.94

Rod Swift
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From: mfinn@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mai-Ly Finn)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: What is the time difference??
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:05:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <l7b1f2INN7cu@earth.cs.utexas.edu> efisch@cs.utexas.edu (Eric A. Fisch) writes:
>Please excuse this "stupid" question, but what is the time difference
>between, say, US central time and Barcelona? How far "ahead" are the
>events actually taking place, compared to when they are on TV for the
>US?

I believe that Barcelona is seven hours ahead of us (central time).
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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: USA "Dream Team"
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:19:53 GMT

In article <92209.000515IO10702@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO10702@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Mervv) writes:
>What else is there to say?

Go Croatia!

Gerald
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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: SWIMFINAL: Result-W's 100m Individual Medley Final
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 16:32:15 GMT

SWIMMING - Women's 400m Individual Medley Final
=================================================

World Record		4:36.10
Olympic Record		4:36.29
 
Gold	EGERSZEGI, Kristina	HUN	4:36.54
Silver	LI, Lin 		CHN	?
Bronze	SANDERS, Summer		USA	?
------
4	LEWIS, Hayley		AUS	?

Placings Unknown... (News feed down again!)
Lane 1	HUNGER, Daniela		GER
Lane 2	KIMURA, Eri		JPN
Lane 6	SYNOWSKA, Ewa		POL
Lane 8	HIRANAKA, Hireko	JPN
 

** This message will be reposted when complete **
 
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: SWIMFINAL: Result-W's 200m Butterfly
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:10:42 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston

SWIMMING - Women's 200m Butterfly FINAL
=======================================
at Picornell Pool, Montjuic
 
World Record		2:05.96		held by Meagher (USA)
Olympic Record		2:06.90		held by Meagher (USA)

 
Gold	SANDERS, Summer			USA	2:08.67
Silver	XIAOHONG, Wang			CHN	2:09.01
Bronze	O'NEILL, Susan			AUS	2:09.03
------
4	HARUNA, Mika			JPN	2:09.88
5	SHITO, Rie			JPN	2:10.24
6	WESTER, Angie			USA	2:11.46
7	JAKOBSEN, Mette			DEN	2:11.87
8	TOCCHINI, Ilaria		ITA	2:13.78

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From: xxapollo@utagraph.uta.edu (Mr. Apollo Silva)
Subject: Men's Basketball: USA 103, Croatia 70
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:26:59 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
X-Bytes: 314

	
USA won their basketball match versus Croatia, 103 to 70.  Magic sustained
an injury on his right leg, extent unknown at this time.

FYI.

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From: jpope@axion.bt.co.uk (john pope)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: 1500m/5000m  Auoita Out!
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:54:55 GMT
Reply-To: jpope@axion.bt.co.uk (john pope)
Organization: BT Labs


According to BBC Ceefax today Said Auoita is very likely to be out of the Olympics and may be forced to retired because of a muscle injury.

Other news: several GBR athletes from different sports have gone down with Stomach upsets. Sounds like the opposition may get more than they bargained for :-) |-)

JP


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From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Subject: Re: USA/Japan Volleyball Dispute
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:43:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.214135.3982@cs.hut.fi>, killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) writes:
|> In <1992Jul29.193525.19142@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <KILLER.92Jul29203108@robocop.hut.fi>, killer@niksula.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa) writes:
|> >|> Isn't that what sportmanship is?  A set of unspoken rules which most
|> >|> participants adhere to.
|> >The comparison to soccer, however, was unfair. Soccer is just about as
|> 
|> I didn't compare volleyball RULES to anything.  What I did was just
|> state an example of a SPORTMANSHIPlike conduct in Olympics, as opposed
|> to recent posts about Dream Team volleyball incidents.

Standards of decency are still standards. That Soccer thing has to have evolved
very slowly. For something like that to occur, there have to be some very
public examples. The only oportunity for such an example to occur in volleyball
is in the relatively rare (compared to highly publicised soccer events)
international volleyball tournaments. As a result it is unfair to expect the
same sort of "standards of decency" from volleyball as from soccer.

Jason W. Solinsky
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From: killer@punisher.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: Summer Olympics trivia
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:15:42 GMT

Can YOU name the one athlete who has won 10 personal gold medals?

If that is easy, then name the three athletes who have won
nine gold medals.

Or name the two athletes who have participated in eight Olympics.

And which five sports have been in some form in each summer Olympics?

Hints follow....

The countries are:  USA
		    USA, Soviet Union and Finland.
		    Denmark and Italy

Still baffled....?

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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Subject: Re: Moving images
	<1992Jul27.035838.2471@rice.edu> <6805@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:02:43 GMT

Dik T. Winter:
> Could it be caused by the equipment taking 50 frames/second (common
> in Europe) and it being transmitted 60 frames/second (US standard).
> This would require some interpolation etc.

Probably not.  The action looks more like frames were removed, rather
than frames were added.

It's probably a faster shutter speed, as Kevin Kreeger mentioned,
perhaps with a faster frame rate for better slow-motion.

I don't mind the effect.  It's just a little disorienting when the POV
switches to another camera that doesn't have this effect.  And it's a
little disappointing that television will only do 30 fps...
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From: yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo)
Subject: Question on amateurism
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:03:20 GMT


I've heard here on Usenet and in newspaper articles recently that the
concept of "amateurism" was devised by elitist Englishmen who wanted
to keep the working stiffs off the playing fields.

Could any point me to books or articles that document this fact?