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Myanmar missing--no fun (r)



On 31 Jul 1996, it was written:

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> >From The Denver Post, Sports Pages, 19 July 1996:
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> It's not fun and Games with Myanmar missing
> By Woody Paige
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> ATLANTA -- Don't let the Games begin.
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> The Olympics can't start without Myanmar.
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> If you see the Myanmar athletes, tell them we are waiting.
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> Of the record 197 countries competing in the Centennial Summer
> Olympics, only Myanmar is missing, and the Games are supposed=20
> to commence tonight with the opening ceremonies.
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> "We'll give them until the opening ceremonies to register,"=20
> says Gilbert Fellie, sports director for the International=20
> Olympic Committee.  "We are sure they'll show, but if they=20
> don't, we'll have to go on without Myanmar."
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> Where in hell, you may ask, is Myanmar?
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> It's a lovely country and dominant global sports power on the
> Bay of Bengal in southeast Asia.
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> Myanmar used to be called Burma.  But Myanmar Shave doesn't=20
> sound quite right.
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> Maybe the Myanmar team is stuck at Denver International Airport.
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> The Chinese basketball players were delayed there for a while. =20
> Don't ask me what they were doing flying through DIA.  (Complaints=20
> about the new airport haven't reached China.)
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> The fine China team flew with me to Atlanta, and I met that=20
> nation's pre-eminent basketball star, Zhishia Wang.
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> I gave him my snack lunch.  He is a growing boy.  Zhishia Wang is=20
> a 7-footer, and he is just 16.  At the Junior World Championships
> he averaged 22.3 points, 12 rebounds and 4.8 blocked shots.
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> "Has he ever heard of the Denver Nuggets?" I asked the team's=20
> interpreter.
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> The chief de mission spoke to Zhishia Wang in a language that was
> Chinese to me.
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> "No, he knows Bulls and Lakers."
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> "Tell him the Nuggets need a center next season, and I would be=20
> willing to represent him in the negotiations.  I can get him a=20
> seven-year contract for 95 million jiaos."
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> "But the jiaos is worth 10 cents on the dollar."
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> "OK, we'll go for 950 million jiaos.  Tell him nobody has ever made 950=
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> million jiaos before.
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> "And we'll name the arena after him.  Man does not fly in the House
> of Wang."
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Women's 1,500 metres first round:

1. Theresia Kiesl
2. Svetlana Masterkova
3. Hassiba Boulmerka
4. Carmen W=FCstenhagen
5. Sinead Delahunty
6. Gwen Griffiths
7. Anna Brzezinska
8. Leah Pells
9. Frederique Quentin
10.Juli Henner
11.Khin Khin Htwe (Burma)



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