From: Lars Thore Aarhus <larsaa@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: TEAM HANDBALL: Final Results & more...
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To: ml@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
        <1992Aug13.131947.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:47:42 GMT
Originator: larsaa@huken.ifi.uio.no

In article <1992Aug13.131947.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au> ml@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au writes:

> G'day,
> In article <1992Aug11.043755.7272@news.acns.nwu.edu>, fish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric West) writes:
> > 
> > 		SUNDAY'S RESULTS
> > 
> > MEN'S BRONZE MEDAL		WOMEN'S BRONZE MEDAL
> > France 24, Iceland 20		Unified Team 24, Germany 20
> > MEN'S GOLD MEDAL		WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL
> > Unified Team 22, Sweden 20	South Korea 28, Norway 21
> > 
> > 		FINAL RESULTS
> > MEN				WOMEN
> > Gold:	Unified Team		Gold:	South Korea
> > Silver:	Sweden			Silver:	Norway
> > Bronze:	France			Bronze:	Unified Team
> > 
> > The men's defending Olympic champions beat the defending world champions in
> > the final game, giving the Unified Team its second consecutive gold.  The
> > three women's medal teams are identical to the 1988 medal teams.  South
> > Korea repeated as champions despite loss of the home crowd advantage, and
> > Norway won the silver despite only making the tournament because Yugoslavia
> > was kicked out.
> 
> I remeber that in Seoul that the Soviet Union took out the silver in the womens
                                                             ^^^^^^
> handball final.  They were defeated by South Korea in the final and this was
> considered as something as a shock because the USSR was the favorite of 'dream
> team' proportions.  Well, the Koreans victory in these olympics proves they are
> no flash in the pan.
> 

 This is not correct. As written above are all the medalists identical
to those of the last olympic in Seoul. You are true about South Korea 
beating USSR but that was in the final-round not in the final itself
simply because no 'real' final (or semifinal for that matter) was
played in Seoul. Instead the two best teams from each preliminary
group played a final round on a round-robin-basis. So Norway has 
indeed won two silver-medals in a row.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mik.
> 
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> *         Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Australia.          *
> * Aarnet:  ml@vcp.monash.edu.au  *  'Open the Pod Bay Door, please, HAL' 2001 *
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|  Department of Informatics                                    |
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