Subject: CND Summer Olympics Special Issue (X), August 6, 1992

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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 92 02:39:44 -0500

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                             (News Global)

		 Special Issue on 1992 Summer Olympics (X)

	        	Thursday, August 6, 1992

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1. August 5:  China Won One Gold and One Silver in Table Tennis ......... 5
2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 5 ......... 55
3. China Beat Cuba in Women Basketball;
   Will Compete for Gold with Unified Team ............................. 30
4. China's Performance in Other On-Going Events ........................ 58
5. Chinese Taipei Won Silver in Baseball ............................... 42
6. Chinese Olympians Badly Miss Chinese Food ........................... 37
7. Unified Team Marathoner Fails Drug Test;
   Steroids Found During Drug Test of U.S. Hammer-Thrower  ............. 57
8. Wednesday's Medal Winners ........................................... 50
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1. August 5:  China Won One Gold and One Silver in Table Tennis ......... 5
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From:   Charlie Li, Huijie & Liu Jian
Source: AP & UPI

Table Tennis: Deng Yaping won the Gold in Women's Singles by defeating her
doubles partner, Qiao Hong, 3-1 (21-6, 21-8, 15-21, 23-21). Qiao Hong won 
the Silver.

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2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 5 ......... 55
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From:    Charlie Li, Jian Liu and Huijie.
Source:  DJ & AP, August 5, 1992

Olympics: Overall Medal Standings (Through 183 Events)

COUNTRY                GOLD   SILVER   BRONZE    TOTAL

Unified Team            35      29       20       84 
United States           21      29       24       74
Germany                 18      16       23       57 
China                   16      20       14       50
France                   8       4       13       25
Australia                6       8        9       23
South Korea              9       4        9       22
Hungary                 10       7        2       19
Japan                    3       7        9       19
Italy                    5       5        7       17
Cuba                     5       3        8       16 
Romania                  4       5        7       16
Britain                  5       3        6       14
Poland                   3       4        7       14 
Canada                   6       1        6       13 
Spain                   10       1        0       11
Netherlands              2       3        6       11
Bulgaria                 1       6        3       10 
New Zealand              1       4        4        9
Sweden                   0       4        3        7
Czechoslovakia           2       2        1        5
Indonesia                2       2        1        5
Turkey                   2       1        2        5
North Korea              2       0        3        5
Norway                   2       2        0        4
Kenya                    1       2        1        4
Denmark                  1       0        3        4
Belgium                  0       1        2        3
Independent Team         0       1        2        3
(Yugoslavia)
Brazil                   1       1        0        2
Estonia                  1       0        1        2
Finland                  0       1        1        2 
Israel                   0       1        1        2
Latvia                   0       1        1        2
Austria                  0       2        0        2
Slovenia                 0       0        2        2
Greece                   1       0        0        1 
Lithuania                1       0        0        1
Morocco                  1       0        0        1
Jamaica                  0       1        0        1
Namibia                  0       1        0        1
Peru                     0       1        0        1
Chinese Taipei           0       1        0        1
Bahamas                  0       0        1        1
Colombia                 0       0        1        1
Ethiopia                 0       0        1        1
Surinam                  0       0        1        1
Malaysia                 0       0        1        1
Mongolia                 0       0        1        1

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3. China Beat Cuba in Women Basketball;
   Will Compete for Gold with Unified Team ............................. 30
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From:   A CND reader
Source: UPI, 8/5

BADALONA, Spain -- China pulled off the second major upset in women's 
Olympic basketball Wednesday night, a 109-70 victory over previously 
unbeaten Cuba to advance to the gold-medal game against the Unified Team.

Earlier, the Unified Team jolted the United States 79-73, ending the quest 
by the American women for a third straight gold medal.

China, 3-1, whose only loss in the tournament was to the Americans, 
outscored Cuba 41-14 over the 12:17 of the first half to open a 27-point 
halftime lead. China will meet the Unified Team in Friday's final while Cuba 
battles the United States for the bronze.

China is assured at least the silver medal. It won its only basketball medal,
a bronze, at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

A patient offense by the Chinese seemed to bother the Cubans, who had hoped 
to play an uptempo game. Cuba, 3-1, playing in its first Olympics in 12 
years, was considered a solid medal contender after a seond-place finish at
last year's Pan American Games.

Cong Xuedi, who finished with 20 points, made five of China's nine 
3-pointers. Li Xin also had 20 points and Zheng Haixia, China's 6-foot-8 
center, added 15.

After celebrating the victory with her teammates, Zheng ran into the stands 
to hug friends and exchange high-fives with strangers.

Leonor Borrel scored 16 points for Cuba but Regla Hernandez, who averaged 
21.5 points in the prelimiary round, did not score in 18 minutes.

In the first semifinal, Natalia Zassoulskaia scored 20 points and Elena 
Khoudachova added 19 for the Unified Team, which ended the U.S. team's 
record Olympic winning streak at 15 games.

The United States had not lost in Olympic basketball since a 112-77 defeat
to the Soviet Union in the 1976 Games.

In classification games, Czechoslovakia defeated Brazil 74-62 and Spain 
outlasted Italy 92-80 in double overtime.

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4. China's Performance in Some On-Going Events ......................... 58
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From:   Bo Xiong
Source: Z. Zhang <[email-masked]> in soc.culture.china 8/5

Men's Singles Semifinals Table Tennis:
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Jean Philippe Gatien(France) def. Ma Wenge: 20-22, 22-20, 21-16, 
12-21, 21-13.

Jan Ove Waldner(Sweden) def. Kim Taek Soo(South Korea)

Ma Wenge lost the chance to win the last table tennis gold.

Women's 1500 Meters Eliminations:
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Round 1 (top six each heat and next six fastest qualify)

	Heat 1: 1, Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria, 4 minutes
09. 91 seconds. 2, Tatiana Dorovskikh, Unified Team, 4:09.94. 3, Paula
Schnurr, Canada, 4:09.99. 4, Elena Fidatov, Romania, 4:10.00. 5, Carla
Sacramento, Portugal, 4:10.01. 6, LIU LI, CHINA, 4:10.08. 7, Marie
Pierre Duros, France, 4:10.14. 8, Maxine Newman, Britain, 4:15.16.
9, Simone Meier, Switzerland, 4:15. 64. 10, Susan Sirma, Kenya, 4:17.
73. 11, Suzy Hamilton, Malibu, Calif., 4:22.36. 12, Laurence Niyonsaba,
Rwanda, 4:24.87. 13, Bigna Alinda Samuel, St. Vincent And The Grenadines,
4:33.41. 14, Mantokoane Angelina Pitso, Lesotho, 4:39.96. 15, Rosemary
Turare, Papua New Guinea, 5:10. 52.

        Heat 2: 1, Maite Zuniga Dominguez, Spain, 4:07.82. 2, Doina
Ofelia Melinte, Romania, 4:08.58. 3, Malgorzata Rydz, Poland, 4:09.
47. 4, Lioudmila Rogatcheva, Unified Team, 4:09.54. 5, Letitia Vriesde,
Surinam, 4:10.63. 6, Deborah Bowker, Canada, 4:11.27. 7, Regina Jacobs,
Oakland, Calif., 4:13.87, 8, M.D.Sriyani Dhammika Menike, Sri Lanka,
4:26.22. 9, Carol Galea, Malta, 4:33.41. 10, Rosalie Baguepeng Gangue,
Chad, 5:06.31. Abandoned: Fabia Trabaldo, Italy, Ellen Kiessling, Germany,
Maria Akraka, Sweden. Disqualified: Ann Williams, Britain, Paivi Tikkanen,
Finland.
        Heat 3: 1, QU YUNXIA, CHINA, 4:07.40. 2, Ekaterina Podkopaeva,
Unified Team, 4:07. 55. 3, Maria De Lurdes Mutola, Mozambique, 4:07.
59. 4, Violeta Beclea, Romania, 4:07.60. 5, Sonia O'Sullivan, Ireland,
4:07.70. 6, Angela Chalmers, Canada, 4:07.75. 7, Maria Kiesl, Austria,
4:07.81. 8, Kirsty Wade, Britain, 4:08.30. 9, Anna Brzezinska, Poland,
4:08.35. 10, Patti Sue Plumer, Palo Alto, Calif., 4:09.47. 11, Getenesh
Urgie, Ethiopia, 4:18.09. 12, Khin Khin Htwe, Myanmar, 4:18.81. 13,
Brigitte Nganaye, Central African Republic, 4:33.57. 14, Ana Isabel
Elias, Angola, 4:33.66. Janeth Caizalitin, Ecuador, DQ.

Women's Shot Put Qualifying(top 12 qualified for final):
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1,Svetlana Kriveleva, Unified Team, 65-feet 6 3/4-inches. 2, Natalya
Lisovskaiya, Unified Team, 64-3. 3, Svetla Mitkova, Bulgaria, 63-0
1/4. 4, Kathrin Neimke, Germany, 62-9 1/4. 5, HUANG ZHIHONG, CHINA,
62-1 1/4. 6, Belsy Laza Munoz, Cuba, 61-5. 7, ZHOU TIANHUA, CHINA,
61-1 1/2. 8, Stephanie Storp, Germany, 60-11 1/2. 9, Krystyna Danilczyk,
Poland, 60-0 1/2. 10, ZHEN WENHUA, CHINA, 59-7 1/2. 11, Ramona Pagel,
San Diego, Calif., 59-1 1/2. 12, Vita Pavlych, Unified Team, 57-0 3/4.

Men's Long Jump Qualifying(top 12 qualified for final):
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1. Carl Lewis, Houston, Tex., 28- feet 5 3/4-inches. 2, (tie) HUANG GENG, 
CHINA; Konstantinos Koukodimos, Greece, 26-11 3/4. 4, Mike Powell,
Alta Loma, Calif., 26-8 1/2. 5, (tie) Jaime Jefferson Guilarte, Cuba;
Dmitri Bagrianov, Unified Team, 26-6 1/2. 7, (tie) Ivan Pedroso Soler,
Cuba; Bogdan Tudor, Romania, 26-5 3/4. 9, (tie) David Culbert, Australia;
Borut Bilac, Slovenia, 26-3. 11, CHEN ZUNRONG, CHINA, 26-0 1/4. 12,
Joe Greene, Dayton, Ohio, 25-11.

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5. Chinese Taipei Won Silver in Baseball ............................... 42
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From:   A CND reader.
Source: UPI, 8/5

L'HOSPITALET, Spain -- Cuba won the first official Olympic gold medal in 
baseball Wednesday night with an 11-1 rout of Taiwan.

Lazaro Vargas hit for the cycle to back the four-hit pitching of
Giorge Diaz. Vargas, Orestes Kindelan and Alberto Hernandez belted solo
home runs in the 18-hit attack.

Cuba, undefeated in nine games, earned the gold medal in its first 
appearance in an Olympic baseball tournament. Baseball was a demonstration
sport in 1984 and 1988 when Cuba boycotted the Los Angeles and Seoul Games.

After Diaz struck out Wen-Chung Chang, the Cubans rushed from their
dugout to celebrate near the mound, then circled the field behind a
Cuban flag.

Taiwan finished with the silver medal and Japan, which beat the United 
States 8-3 earlier in the day, won the bronze.

Diaz, 2-0 during the Olympics, struck out eight and walked one, retiring 13 
men in a row after Chung-Yi Huang's single to lead off the first inning. The
only run against him was unearned.

Vargas and Kindelan both finished with two runs and two RBI, while Hernandez
and Victor Mesa drove home two runs each and German Mesa scored twice.

Taiwan starter Chao-Huang Lin, 2-1 at the Olympics, gave up four runs, three
earned, and five hits over three innings of work.

The Cubans jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Vargas led off with 
a double to left-center, took third on a wild pitch by Lin and scored on a 
sacrifice fly by Antonio Pacheco.

One out later, Kindelan delivered his third homer of the tournament. The 
ball was hit so hard that left fielder Tai-Chuan Chiang didn't bother to 
move.

Cuba struck for two more runs in the third. Vargas led off with his first 
home run of the Olympics. Pacheco followed with a single, stole second and
continued to third on an error by second baseman Chung-Yi Huang. He scored
on a sacrifice fly by Kindelan.

Hernandez gave the Cubans a 5-0 lead in the fourth with his solo
homer, a two-out drive over the left-field wall for his first homer of the 
tournament.

The Cubans added a run in the sixth when Vargas, who had singled in the 
fourth, completed the cycle with an RBI triple. They made it 8-0 in the 
seventh on a two-run single by Victor Mesa.

Taiwan broke its drought in the seventh. Shih-Hsih Wu reached on an error by 
the second baseman and went to second when the throw skipped into Cuba's 
dugout. He advanced to third on a groundout and scored when Wen-Chung Chang
grounded out.

Cuba capped the scoring with two runs in the ninth, coming on an RBI double
by Ermidelio Urrutia and an error by Chiang in left field.

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6. Chinese Olympians Badly Miss Chinese Food ........................... 37
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From:   Bo Xiong
Source: Jianliang Li <[email-masked]> in soc.culture.china 8/5

Behind the numerous GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE medals won by our countrywomen 
and countrymen, how much do we know about their daily life in Barcelona ?  
For 13-year-old FU Mingxia, we all know she wanted and she got the GOLD 
medal. Now she is dying for a bit of hot peppers and Chinese rice." Here is
a report from Salt Lake Tribune with my thoughts about 1996 Olympics....

>From Salt Lake Tribune, 8/4/92, Page 1:
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The chief topic among China's Olympic gold medal winners is how soon they 
can go home for a good meal.  Several Chinese stars are pining to leave 
before the closing ceremonies.

"I'm dying for a bit of hot peppers and Chinese rice," said Fu Ming-Xia, 
China's 13-year-old diving sensation.

Zhang Xiaoyan, who took the gold in judo, said she wouldn't try to eat ANY 
MORE LOCAL FOOD, but would stick to the INSTANT NOODLES (sounds familiar?) 
the team brought along.

Relatively few Chinese have ever eaten foreign food and most regard it as 
INEDIBLE.  Team officials took the women to a local Chinese restaurant and 
restored their appetites, but they still felt HOMESICK !

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HENCE SOME FOOD IDEAS FOR 1996 OLYMPICS FROM JIANLIANG LI:
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The 1996 Olympics will be here in USA.  We can be the host to the Chinese 
team and contribute more gold medals to our matherland.  Here is what we 
can do:

Suppose the team has 1000 members and will stay in USA for 20 days, we pay
them one Chinese meal (dinner) a day at $7.00.  That is, $140 for each 
athlete and for a total of $140,000.  From mainland along, we have more than
80,000 students and scholars in USA.  There are millions more Chinese and
Chinese Americans from Taiwan, Hongkong, mainland, etc.  If we donate only
$2 or $5 each person, there will be far more than enough money to cover the
meals of 1996 Chinese Olympic Team.  Plus cooperations with local (Atlanta)
Chinese restaurants, we should be able to get better food for better prices.
I suggest Chinese student organizations or any other non-profit groups
stand out and collect donations now when the Olympics are still HOT !

If you are proud of Chinese GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE medalists, then let's 
work togther with them.  UNITED, WE WILL SUCEED!

					Jianliang LI
					University of Utah

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7. Unified Team Marathoner Fails Drug Test;
   Steroids Found During Drug Test of U.S. Hammer-Thrower  ............. 57
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From:   A CND Reader, Jian Liu
Source: UPI, DJ, 8/5

BARCELONA, Spain -- A woman marathoner from the Unified Team became the 
second athlete to fail a drug test at the Barcelona Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that Madina 
Biktagirova, the fourth-place finisher in Saturday's marathon, tested 
positive for the banned stimulant Norephedrine.

"The decision means Biktagirova is excluded from these Games," IOC
spokeswoman Michele Verdier told a news conference.

The announcement came one day after the IOC removed Chinese volleyball
player Wu Dan, who had tested positive for the stimulant strychnine.

Biktagirova, 27, of the Belarus republic, left Barcelona before being
called before the IOC medical commission to explain her test. Verdier
said the chief medical officer of the Unified Team spoke to the
commission.

Verdier said Biktagirova faces a three-month ban from the International 
Amateur Athletics Federation. The suspension could have been more severe
but this was a first offense for Biktagirova and use of Norephedrine 
does not merit the stringent penalties of drugs like anabolic steroids.

In track and field, the three medal winners and one other athlete
picked at random are tested after a race. Biktagirova, picked at random,
finished in 2:35:39, nine minutes slower than a personal best set in Los
Angeles this year.

While Wu's doctors received an official warning from the IOC there was 
no such warning for the Unified Team doctors.

"It seems a clear case of doping," Verdier said.

Biktagirova, who left the Olympic village with her coach Tuesday, had
not spoken with IOC officals about her test.

Jud Logan, a hammer thrower for the U.S. who finished fourth in his event
Sunday at the Olympics in Barcelona, has tested positive for steroids.

Logan, who is from North Canton, Ohio, tested positive for the drug
Clenbuterol in his first test.

The findings were announced by Prince Alexander de Merode, chairman of the
International Olympic Committee Medical Commission.  

The IOC is awaiting the results of a second test before passing down a
penalty on the 33-year-old Logan.

Logan's fourth-place finish in the hammer throw was the best by an American
since Harold Connolly won the gold medal in the 1956 Olympics.

Logan is the first American since swimmer Rick DeMont in 1972 to fail a drug
test at the Olympics.

DeMont lost his gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle after he took medicine
for his asthma that contained a banned stimulant.

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8. Wednesday's Medal Winners ........................................... 50
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>From:   Huijie and Charlie Li
Source:  DJ & AP  8/4
      
(THROUGH 12 OF 12 EVENTS)

BASEBALL
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Gold -- Cuba     Silver -- Chinese Tapei      Bronze -- Japan 

TRACK AND FIELD
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WOMEN'S 400-METER HURDLES
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Gold -- Sally Gunnell, Britain    Silver -- Sandra Farmer-Patrick, United 
States    Bronze -- Janeene Vickers, United States 

WOMEN'S 400 METERS
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Gold -- Marie-Jose Perec, France    Silver -- Olga Bryzgina, Unified team 
Bronze -- Ximena Restrepo, Colombia 

MEN'S 400 METERS
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Gold -- Quincy Watts, United States    Silver -- Steve Lewis, United States 
Bronze -- Samson Katur, Kenya 

MEN'S 800 METERS
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Gold -- William Tanui, Kenya      Silver -- Nixon Kiprotich, Kenya 
Bronze -- Johnny Gray, United States 

MEN'S DISCUS
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Gold -- Romas Ubartas, Lithuania      Silver -- Jurgen Schult, Germany 
Bronze -- Roberto Moya, Cuba 

EQUESTRIAN
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Individual Dressage
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Gold -- Nicole Uphoff, Germany      Silver -- Isabell Werth, Germany 
Bronze -- Klaus Belkenhol, Germany 

TABLE TENNIS
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Women's singles
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Gold -- Deng Yaping, China      Silver -- Qiao Hong, China 
Bronze -- Li Bun Hui, North Korea, Hyun Jung Hwa, South Korea 

WRESTLING
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114.5 POUNDS
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Gold -- Li Hak Son, North Korea     Silver -- Zeke Jones, United States 
Bronze -- Valentin Jordanov, Bulgaria 

149.5 POUNDS 
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Gold -- Arsen Fadzaev, Unified team   Silver -- Valentin Dotchev, Bulgaria 
Bronze -- Kosei Akaishi, Japan 

220 POUNDS
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Gold -- Leri Khabelov, Unified team      Silver -- Heiko Balz, Germany 
Bronze -- Ali Kayali, Turkey 

FENCING
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MEN'S TEAM FOIL
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Gold --- Germany       Silver -- Cuba      Bronze -- Poland

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