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From: brianc@jekyll.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: US/Japan volleyball protest
Keywords: protest
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:07:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Francisco, Dept of Lab Med

In article <1992Jul29.190427.18833@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <ymnmwfc@lynx.unm.edu> blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.193716.8514@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>The practice of treating second foul/card/technical/... in a different way
>>>than the first simply because it has more palpable results is cowardly, unfair
>>>and contrary to the spirit of the rules of any sport. A violation is a viola-
>>>tion and should be treated equally no matter when it occurs.
>>
>>Not necessarily. In soccer for example (which I have refereed extensively)
>>its common to give a player 2 yellows instead of the yellow then red. 
>
>That might be an option under US rules, but not under FIFA rules. I've never
>seen or heard of a "second yellow card" in soccer, and I come from a part of
>the world where soccer is by far the most popular sport, talked about as much
>as baseball in the US.

I am a certified referee and I know that a second caution (yellow card)
results in a send off (red card).  And in fact this is now officially
part of Law 5, from the set of common laws for all soccer.  So you're
both wrong ... a second yellow in soccer is an ejection and there is a
second yellow, that is now required to be shown, resulting in an ejection.

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From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: Let's vote --- Who is the most unselfish player on the Dream Team?
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:54:22 GMT

solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:

>As I recall Majic once cut his salary to allow the Lakers to fit a new player in
>under the salary cap. Now that's unselfish.

>Jason W. Solinsky

As I recall, Barkley did the same thing for the Suns to allow them to sign 
Ainge.  Now are you saying that Barkley is unselfish too?

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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: Re: Swimming Results
Keywords: swimming
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:59:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.193917.111@usho93.hou281.chevron.com> bebmza@sru001.chvpkh.chevron.com (Beverly M. Zalan) writes:
>Is anyone posting swimming results today?  There must have been
>some action already today...
>
>Beverly M. Zalan
>bebmza@sru001.chvpkh.chevron.com
 which most results are on the net before the medal ceremony.

Please note:

Article 1196 in rec.sport.olympics:
From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift) *(<--his email address)*
Subject: SWIM: Posting of Heat results.
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:50:05 GMT

From now on, I will only be posting a range of HEAT results in the swimming
events.

If you would like the results to a heat, pls send me some EMAIL with the
heat you would like (or the competitor) and I will endeavour to post it
in rec.sport.olympics

At the moment, the priority for me is on posting the FINALS of the swimming
events, for most results are on the net before the medal ceremony.

Rod Swift
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From: fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Proud and Angry
Originator: fortony@murphy
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:58:37 GMT

G62N@UNB.CA (G62N000) writes:

>>In article <fortony.712455562@murphy> fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Sorry to hear it.  I was being quite serious.  If given a choice betwe en
>>watching a technically perfect but somewhat boring Chinese diver who's
>>guaranteed to win and watching an older, flawed but spirited American
>>diver, I'm going to make the second choice every time.  At least the
>>American had expressions on her face.
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>So what you are saying is that if a diver gets out of the pool with
>a big grin on thier face and ACTING as if they made a super dive
>then they should get the gold, even if they just did a belly flop?

No.  Again, I am not suggesting that the American should have won the
gold, or that she was better at diving than Fu Minxia.  Fu was clearly
superior, there was no contest.  For *that reason*, I found her less
interesting than someone at the end of her career struggling hard to
battle off the others and achieve Olympic glory.

>Maybe the young Chinese diver is nervous and is affraid to show any
>emotion during the competition.  I'm pretty damn sure she won't be
>standing like a robot when she gets her gold medal.

A medal she deserves.  This entire discussion has been about entertainment
value, not worth as a person.

>Paul O'Sullivan
><g62n@unb.ca>
>LIVERPOOL F.C.
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: BASEBALL: day 2 results
Keywords: baseball
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:37:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: rice.1992Jul28.163736.271
Organization: Rice University, Houston

RESULTS for July 27, 1992
-------------------------
Cuba  18,  Italy  1
United States  10,  Taiwan  9
Japan  12,  Spain  1
Puerto Rico  7, Dominican Republic  5


OLYMPIC STANDINGS
-----------------

Team            W       L       GB      F       A
-----------------------------------------------------
Cuba            2       0       --     26       1
Japan           2       0       --     21       1
United States   2       0       --     14      10
Taiwan          1       1       1      17      12
Puerto Rico     1       1       1       7      14
Dominican R.    0       2       2       5      17
Spain           0       2       2       2      16
Italy           0       2       2       1      26

Games for July 28, 1992
-----------------------
United States  vs.  Italy
Taiwan  vs.  Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic  vs.  Spain
Japan  vs.  Cuba

Feel free to contact me with questions or comments!!!

==========================================================================
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From: etxjdry@caddie.ericsson.se (John Dryselius TG/HB)
Subject: Re: Football Results
Reply-To: etxjdry@caddie.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:42:51 GMT

In article 19252@news.Hawaii.Edu, narsimha@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Narsimha Polkampally) writes:
>In article <C85PERWE.92Jul29102956@odal24.IDA.LiU.SE> c85perwe@und.ida.liu.se writes:
>>
>>
>>	Sweden beat Marocko 4 to 0 in Football!  Go, Brolin, go!
>>
>
>	Could someone please post football results? And Go, LIMPAR, go!
>
>Cheers,
>-P
>
Limpar is not playing in Sweden's olympic team since he's older than 23.

John



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From: x0y3510@tamuts.tamu.edu (Xuejun Yang)
Subject: Re: SWIMFINAL: Result-W's 100m Butterfly
Organization: ~/lib/organization
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:21:50 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:
>>>SWIMMING - Women's 100m Butterfly FINAL
>>>=======================================
>>> 
>>>World Record		57.93
>>>Olympic Record	59.00
>>>
>>> 
>>>Go	HONG, Qian			CHN	  58.62		New OR
>>>Si	AHMANN-LEIGHTON, Christine	USA	  58.74
>>>Br	PLEWINSKI, Catherine		FRA	  59.01
>>>------
>>>4	XIAOHONG, Wang			CHN	?
>>>5	O'NEILL, Susan			AUS	  59.69
>>>6	SANDERS, Summer			USA
>>>7	VAN ALMSICK, Franziska		GER	?
>>>8	SHITO, Rie			JPN	?
>
>> Another case of potential success unfufilled. There had been much said 
>> of Summer Sanders in the weeks leading up to this fortnight. 
>
>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.
>
>Rod Swift
PRC = CHN        
Taiwan = Chinese Taipei (Don't know the abbrev.)
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From: killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: Re: Countries of the 1st Olympics
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:46:23 GMT

In <1992Jul27.040830.10515@news.uiowa.edu> olesen@math.uiowa.edu (Martin Olesen) writes:
>    I think Denmark has participated in all Olympic games.

With Denmark winning 7 medals in Paris 1900 and 5 in Athens 1906, it seems
strange that they didn't win a medal at St.Louis 1904.  More likely, they
didn't participate.
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From: Lei@bnos.csd.bldrdoc.gov
Subject: Re: Shaved heads/ CANADA RESULT
Organization: The Ohio State University; Department of Phyiscs
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:10:06 GMT

>       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.


>doesn't reduce our chances of winning the medal.''


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From: killer@niksula.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: Re: Countries of the 1st Olympics
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Jul27.040830.10515@news.uiowa.edu>
	<1992Jul27.174623.12642@cs.hut.fi>
	<1992Jul28.145643.20995@odin.diku.dk>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:24:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.145643.20995@odin.diku.dk> thorn@diku.dk (Peter Tjornsted) writes:

   Denmark has won medals in every other Olympic Games except 1904!!

Ah, but Finland has won at least one GOLD medal since 1906, giving
almost unequalled streak (Italy and UK equal, no nation has longer)!
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From: ping@summit.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Ping Ding)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:25:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <92212.110554TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu> TXK9@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>  I think NBC should give a more educated
> comments. 
> Kesh
I am fully agree with you.
From: hellier@skat.usc.edu (Chuck Hellier)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Dream Team Drinking Game
Date: 28 Jul 1992 09:28:51 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

Here's something my friends and I dreamed up watching the Dream Team
on the Blue channel:

	   Olympic BasketBall Dream Team Drinking Game '92
			    Version 1.0
		             (C) 1992
			    Chuck Hellier

Tune in the TripleCast Blue channel to watch USA crush yet another
3rd rate team that even Slippery Rock could beat.  Although the Dream
Team's plays will be exciting, follow the rules of this game to
complete the experience.

Collect all 10 McDonald's Dream Team Cups.  Distribute cups to
Drinking Game players.  Assume the identity of the Dream Team player
on your cup.  Fill your cup as follows:
	Magic Johnson		Margarita
	Patrick Ewing		Long Island Ice Tea
	Larry Bird		Sam Adams
	Karl Malone		Kamikaze
	Michael Jordan		Gatorade 'n' Vodka
	Charles Barkley		Coors Lite
	Chris Mullin		Gin 'n' Tonic
	John Stockton		Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
	Scotty Pippen		Coke 'n' Rum
	David Robinson		Fuzzy Navel
Get two bottles for the players who don't have McD's cups:
	Christian Laetner 	Miller Genuine Draft
	Clyde Drexler		Heineken

If the other team makes a free throw, everybody BOO.
If the other team makes a 2 pointer, everbody yell "Aaarrggghh."
If the other team makes a 3 pointer, everybody say "Aw, shit."
If the other team misses, everybody yell, "Yay!"

If your player makes a free throw, everyone else take a sip.
If your player makes a 2 pointer, everyone else drink.
If your player makes a 3 pointer, everyone else take a big gulp.
If your player misses, take two drinks.
If your player fouls, take 3 drinks.

If your player grandstands, drink.

If Barkley disses somebody, whoever is "Barkley" has to drink.

If Magic assists somebody, that person has to drink.

If Larry falls, "Larry" has to drink.

If Chick makes a Chick-ism, everybody drink.  If it's new (i.e. not
Mustard or popcorn machine), drink twice.

If someone mentions how International rules differ from NBA rules,
everyone yell "NBA Rules!" and the last person to do so has to drink.

If someone mispronounces a foreigner's name, call out the proper
pronunciation.  Everyone else drink.

If you see the Barcelona Cat, yell "I hate that stupid cat!."  The last
person to do so has to drink.

If the buzzer (that sounds like the 1st note in the Olympic Theme)
sounds, everyone hum the next 5 notes.

If someone talks about the rumor that Magic will come back to the
NBA, "Magic" has to drink.

If someone says that the other team is only concerned with getting
the autographs of the Dream Team, drink.

If they show a shot of John Stockton on the bench, "Stockton" has to
drink.

If the message "If you are watching this, you are authorized to watch
this..." (the Triplecast authentication message) comes on, throw your
drink at the TV.


-- 
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Microcomputer Systems Programmer		
University of Southern California		Tel:	  (213) 740-5363
From: perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: NBC Olympic coverage ...
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:30:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York

In article <1992Jul24.150250.411@u.washington.edu>, sieferme@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman) writes:
> If the NBC coverage of the opening ceremonies is as bad as
> CBS' coverage of the opening of the Winter Olympics, ...

It was!

Robert Perlberg
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From: killer@robocop.cs.hut.fi (Kalle Kivimaa)
Subject: Re: TOTAL MEDAL COUNT we 30.7.
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:45:23 GMT

In <(~{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?

I give you my promise to try, but it might fail, because I cannot
think of any sure place to get all the participants of all the
Olympics.  But I'll try...
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From: rsl@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Russell S. Laderer)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: CMT Re: RESULTS: : Top 3 in all SWIMMING events so far.
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:00:48 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Can someone out there tell me when the 5000m was dropped from
the games?

				Scott Laderer
From: hchiu@acsu.buffalo.edu (hung-chang chiu)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: Macedonian athletes to compete at Barcelona, Spain
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:57:09 GMT
Organization: SUNY Buffalo

The existence of a country doesn't necessarily have to depend on the 
diplomatic recognitions of "most countries." As a citizen of Taiwan(R.O.C.),
I will like to send my best wishes to Macedonian athletes at Barcelona.
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From: rachele@cs.rice.edu (Rachele Harless)
Subject: GYMNASTICS: results (complete from the women's all-around)
Summary: Gutsu takes 1st, Miller 2nd, Milosovici 3rd, Bontas 4th
Keywords: gymnastics
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:08:59 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:00:00 GMT

Women's All-Around Competition
July 30, 1992

1, Tatiana Goutsou, Unified Team, 39.737 points. 
2, Shannon Miller, United States, 39.725. 
3, Lavinia Corina Milosovici, Romania, 39.687. 
4, Cristina Bontas, Romania, 39.674. 
5, Svetlana Boguinskaia, Unified Team, 39.673. 
6, Gina Elena Gogean, Romania, 39.624. 
7, Tatiana Lyssenko, Unified Team, 39.537. 
8, Henrietta Onodi, Hungary, 39.449. 
9, Sonia Fraguas Sanchez, Spain, 39.424. 
10, Kim Zmeskal, United States, 39.412.

11, Sylvia Zarkova Mitova, Bulgaria, 39.399. 
12, Betty Okino, United States, 39.387. 
13, Cristina Fraguas Sanchez, Spain, 39.324.
14, Li Li, China, 39.262. 
15, Andrea Molnar, Hungary, 39.237. 
16, Stella Umeh, Canada, 39.212. 
17, Mari Kosuge, Japan, 39.162. 
18, Luisa Portocarrero Diaz, Guatemala, 39.161. 
19, Monique Allen, Australia, 39.086. 
20, (tie) Alicia Fernandez, Spain, 39.074. 
    Li Chun-Mi, North Korea, 39.074.
22, Elvira Becks, Holland, 39.000. 
23, Benedicte Evrard, Belgium, 38.974. 
24, Pavla Kinclova, Czechoslovakia, 38.899. 
25, Yang Bo, China, 38.886. 
26, Virginie Machado, France, 38.824. 
27, Choi Gyong-Hui, North Korea, 38.737. 
28, Kim Gwang-Suk, North Korea, 38.723. 
29, Diana Schroder, Germany, 38.624. 
30, Lisa Read, Australia, 38.611.
31, Dilyana Vodenitcharova, Bulgaria, 38.286. 
32, Chloe Francoise Maigre, France, 38.274. 
32, Kathleen Stark, Germany, 38.274. 
34, Lu Li, China, 38.073. 
35, Marie-Angeline Colson, France, 37.774. 
36, Kylie Shadbolt, Australia, 37.549.



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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Moving images
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:32:59 GMT

mccallum@fluorine.cchem.berkeley.edu (Mike Mccallum) writes:
> Isn't this the same thing as the 'super slo-mo' cameras that they 
> started using for baseball games a few years back -- to show the
> rotation of the ball and have very clear slo-motion?  They work 
> more like a film camera than being a real-time video camera.

Many high speed cameras do it by flashing the lense open and closed very
rapidly  (eg 1000/sec) thus taking 1000 separate images per second and
you don't get blur. The eye can not handle such a speed a interprets the
flickering produced as motion.

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From: wung@eecom.gatech.edu (Peter Wung)
Subject: Re: USA/Japan Volleyball Dispute
Reply-To: wung@eecom.gatech.edu
Organization: School of EE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:08:12 GMT

In article 17449@athena.mit.edu, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>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


Whoa, Dream Team is Basketball, not volleyball.  Also, international volleyball tournaments are not all that rare.  The teams play each other quite often, in fact there is a world league which pits the national teams against each other during the year.  There is just a lack of media coverage of volleyball, so that the average
Jason on the street ;-) are not aware of such structures in the sport. 
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