Subject: CND Summer Olympics Special Issue (XIII), August 9, 1992

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	       Special Issue on 1992 Summer Olympics (XIII)

	        	 Sunday, August 9, 1992

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1. August 8: China Won Bonze Medal in Women's 1,500 M Run ............... 5
2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 8 ......... 69
3. American Shot Putter Dasse Fails Drug Test At Olympics .............. 12
4. Profile: J-O Waldner, the World Table Tennis Star ................... 25
5. Friday's Medal Winners ............................................. 133
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1. August 8: China Won Bonze Medal in Women's 1,500 M Run ............... 5
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From:   Jian Liu & Charlie Li
Source: AP & DJ  8/8/92

WOMEN'S 1,500:  Gold -- Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria
                Silver -- Lyudmila Rogacheva, Unified Team
                Bronze -- Qu Yunxia, China

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2. XXV Summer Olympics: Overall Medal Standings as of August 8 ......... 69
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From:   Jian Liu & Charlie Li.
Source: AP & DJ  8/8/92

Medal Standings As of Aug 8,  5:43 pm

COUNTRY                GOLD   SILVER   BRONZE    TOTAL

Unified Team            45      37       27      109
United States           37      34       34      105
Germany                 30      21       27       78 
China                   16      22       16       54
France                   8       5       16       29
South Korea             11       5       12       28
Hungary                 11      11        5       27
Cuba                    11       5       11       27 
Australia                7       8       11       26
Japan                    3       7       11       21
Spain                   13       5        2       20 
Britain                  5       3       11       19
Italy                    5       5        8       18
Poland                   3       6        9       18 
Canada                   6       4        7       17 
Romania                  4       6        7       17
Bulgaria                 3       7        5       15 
Netherlands              2       3        7       12
Sweden                   1       7        4       12
New Zealand              1       4        5       10
Czechoslovakia           4       2        2        8
North Korea              3       0        5        8
Kenya                    2       4        2        8
Norway                   2       4        1        7
Turkey                   2       2        2        6
Indonesia                2       2        1        5
Denmark                  1       1        3        5
Finland                  1       2        1        4 
Jamaica                  0       3        1        4
Morocco                  1       1        1        3
Ethiopia                 1       0        2        3
Nigeria                  0       2        1        3
Latvia                   0       2        1        3
Belgium                  0       1        2        3
Independent Team         0       1        2        3
(Yugoslavia)
Iran                     0       1        2        3
Croatia                  0       1        2        3
Greece                   2       0        0        2 
Brazil                   1       1        0        2
Ireland                  1       1        0        2
Estonia                  1       0        1        2
Lithuania                1       0        1        2
Namibia                  0       2        0        2
Austria                  0       2        0        2
South Africa             0       2        0        2
Israel                   0       1        1        2
Slovenia                 0       0        2        2
Mongolia                 0       0        2        2
Switzerland              1       0        0        1
Algeria                  1       0        0        1
Peru                     0       1        0        1
Taiwan                   0       1        0        1
Mexico                   0       1        0        1
Bahamas                  0       0        1        1
Colombia                 0       0        1        1
Surinam                  0       0        1        1
Malaysia                 0       0        1        1
Argentina                0       0        1        1
Philippines              0       0        1        1
Thailand                 0       0        1        1
Puerto Rico              0       0        1        1
Qatar                    0       0        1        1
Pakistan                 0       0        1        1
Ghana                    0       0        1        1
 
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3. American Shot Putter Dasse Fails Drug Test at Olympics .............. 12
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From:   Jian Liu
Source: DJ 8/8/92

American woman shot putter Bonnie Dasse on Saturday became the second
American athlete to fail a drug test at the Olympics in Barcelona. Dasse 
tested positive for Clenbuterol, a banned substance.

American hammer thrower Jud Logan was expelled from the Olympics earlier
this week after also testing positive for using Clenbuterol.

Dasse didn't qualify for the finals in her event. She admitted using 
Clenbuterol and said she stopped just before the Games.

Both Dasse and Logan said they were told that Clenbuterol was a safe
alternative to anabolic steroids. The drug was banned earlier this
year.

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4. Profile: J-O Waldner, the World Table Tennis Star ................... 25
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From: Song Ling <[email-masked]> 8/8/92

The 27 years old Swede, J-O Waldner has become the first person in the 
world to win the first place in all three major world table tennis 
competitions: World Championship (1989), World Cup (1991), and the 25th 
Olympics.

At the age 11, he started participating in table tennis competitions in 
Europe. Later on he was sent to train in China with other top Swedish 
teenagers. Although in both the 37th and the 38th World Championship games 
the Swedes lost to the Chinese in the team competition (both 0:5), J-O was
the number one player in their overwhelming victory over the Chinese team 
(5:0) in the 39th World Championship competition, and he further won the 
singles title in the same game, hitting his personal peak form of his table
tennis career.  

J-O's features are variable serves and sudden changes of the rhythem (he is 
also a good tennis player which gives him good feelings of rhythem), as well
as a strong backhand. Like other European players (they usually have rather
long career life time), his peak form came a little late in his age. He 
trains in Germany with other top Swedish players. They participate many more 
competitions each year than their Asain counterparts.  

Interestingly, J-O often loses in less well-known competitions but keeps 
unbeatable in major world events, and he is usually the winner if the game
goes to the 5th set.  (I don't remember if he lost any 5th set except to 
Chen Xinhua in World Cup 1988.)  What Chinese players can learn from the 
Swedes is putting less emphasis on "closed-door training" and shift more 
gears to international competitions, and to have their career time 
prolonged; i.e. to retire a little later than they do now.

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5. Saturday's Medal Winners ........................................... 133
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From:    Jian Liu, Huijie and Charlie Li
Source:  DJ & AP  8/8/92

TODAY'S MEDAL WINNERS AT THE OLYMPICS 
      (THROUGH 29 OF 29 EVENTS)

BOXING
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106-POUNDS 
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Gold -- Rogelio Marcelo, Cuba      Silver -- Daniel Bojinov, Bulgaria 
Bronze -- Noel Velasco, Philippines; Jan Quast, Germany 

119 POUNDS
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Gold -- Joel Casamayor, Cuba       Silver -- Wayne McCullough, Ireland 
Bronze -- Mohammed Achik, Morocco; Li Kwang Sik, North Korea 

132 POUNDS 
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Gold -- Oscar de la Hoya, United States    Silver -- Marco Rudolph, Germany 
Bronze -- Hong Sung, South Korea; Namjil Bayarsaikham, Mongolia 

148 POUNDS
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Gold -- Michael Carruth, Ireland      Silver -- Juan Hernandez, Cuba 
Bronze -- Arkom Chenglai, Thailand; Anibal Acevedo, Puerto Rico 

165 POUNDS 
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Gold -- Ariel Hernandez, Cuba     Silver -- Chris Byrd, United States 
Bronze -- Chris Johnson, Canada; Lee Seung Bae, South Korea 

201 POUNDS
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Gold -- Felix Savon, Cuba     Silver -- David Izonritei, Nigeria 
Bronze -- Arnold van der Lijde, Netherlands; David Tua, New Zealand 

CANOE/KAYAK
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MEN'S 1,000-METER CANOE SINGLES 
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Gold -- Nikolay Bouchalov, Bulgaria     Silver -- Ivan Klementiev, Latvia 
Bronze -- Giorgi Zala, Hungary 

MEN'S 1,000 METER CANOE DOUBLES 
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Gold -- Germany       Silver -- Denmark      Bronze -- France 

MEN'S 1,000-METER SINGLE KAYAK 
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Gold -- Clint Robinson, Australia      Silver -- Knute Holmann, Norway 
Bronze -- Greg Barton, United States 

MEN'S 1,000-METER DOUBLES KAYAK
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Gold -- Germany       Silver -- Sweden       Bronze -- Poland 

MEN'S 1,000-METER KAYAK FOURS 
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Gold -- Germany       Silver -- Hungary      Bronze -- Czechoslovakia 

WOMEN'S 500-METER KAYAK FOURS
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Gold -- Hungary       Silver -- Germany      Bronze -- Sweden 

TENNIS
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WOMEN'S DOUBLES
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Gold -- Gigi Fernandez and Mary Joe Fernandez, United States 
Silver -- Conchita Martinez and Arantxa Sanchez, Spain 
Bronze -- Leila Meskhi and Natalia Zvereva, Unified team
          Rachel McQuillan and Nicole Provis, Australia 

MEN'S SINGLES
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Gold -- Marc Rosset, Switzerland     Silver -- Jordi Arrese, Spain
Bronze -- Andrei Cherkasov, Unified team
          Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia

TEAM HANDBALL
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WOMEN
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Gold -- South Korea     Silver -- Norway      Bronze -- Unified team

MEN
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Gold -- Unified team    Silver -- Sweden      Bronze -- France

TRACK AND FIELD
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WOMEN'S 400-METER RELAY
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Gold -- United States (Evelyn Ashford, Esther Jones, 
        Carlette Guidry, Gwen Torrence)
Silver -- Unified team      Bronze -- Nigeria

MEN'S 400-METER RELAY
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Gold -- United States (Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Dennis 
        Mitchell, Carl Lewis)
Silver -- Nigeria     Bronze -- Cuba

WOMEN'S 1,600-METER RELAY
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Gold -- Unified team
Silver -- United States (Natasha Kaiser, Gwen Torrence, Jearl 
          Miles, Rochelle Stevens)
Bronze -- Britain

MEN'S 1,600-METER RELAY
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Gold -- United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Michael 
        Johnson, Steve Lewis)
Silver -- Cuba     Bronze -- Britain

WOMEN'S 1,500 METERS
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Gold -- Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria 
Silver -- Lyudmila Rogacheva, Unified team   Bronze -- Qu Yunxia, China 

MEN'S 1,500 METERS 
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Gold -- Fermin Cacho, Spain     Silver -- Rashid El-Basir, Morocco 
Bronze -- Mohammed Sulaiman, Qatar 

MEN'S 5,000 METERS
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Gold -- Dieter Baumann, Germany      Silver -- Paul Bitok, Kenya 
Bronze -- Fita Bayisa, Ethiopia 

WOMEN'S HIGH JUMP
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Gold -- Heike Henkel, Germany      Silver -- Galina Astafei, Romania 
Bronze -- Joanet Quintero, Cuba 

MEN'S JAVELIN 
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Gold -- Jan Zelezny, Czechoslovakia     Silver -- Seppo Raty, Finland 
Bronze -- Steve Backley, Britain 

RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
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Gold -- Alexander Timoshenko, Unified team
Silver -- Carolina Pascual Gracia, Spain
Bronze -- Oksana Skaldina, Unified team

FIELD HOCKEY
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MEN
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Gold -- Germany     Silver -- Australia     Bronze -- Pakistan

SOCCER
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Gold -- Spain     Silver -- Poland     Bronze -- Ghana

BASKETBALL
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MEN
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Gold -- United States     Silver -- Croatia     Bronze -- Lithuania

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