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- From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (pauline muggli)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Olympic flame
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.151920.4891@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:19:20 GMT
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- Gordon.Riddell@prg.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- > In <40075@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not Al Crawford says :
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- >|Peeve: the guy didn't miss when he fired the flaming arrow at the Olympic
- >|flame. It'd probably have lit anyway, but it'd have been nice if he'd
- >|missed.
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- >'Fraid he did miss. The BBC news, I think, showed a side view and the arrow
- >clearly went over the bowl and out of the stadium. The flaming arrow ignited
- >the gas as it shot past!
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- i think your concept of "miss" and the spanish olympic
- committee's concept of "miss" are different. they were only
- concerned that the flaming arrow passed over the tower and
- ignite the gas. it didn't matter if it landed on the tower or not.
- the police had cleared a space outside the stadium for the arrow to
- land. they did a short piece on the whole thing here. i think out
- of 70+ practice shots (by more than one archer) only 2 missed and
- those happened on a windy day.
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- obolympicpeeve1: yesterday night, a unified team gymnist fell
- off the balance beam. this ruined her chances of continuing on
- to the next step - the individual all around title. on her next
- and final rotation, she did the floor exercises. when she was
- done, she came off the floor crying. this 15 year old girl was
- being comforted by her teammates and some camera person kept
- moving around to get a close-up of her tear lined face. i'm
- surprised they didn't shove a microphone in her face and ask her
- "what went wrong on that balance beam routine?" they would have
- if she was a usan. as a matter of fact, they did...
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- obolympicpeeve2: the news media talking to janet evans after
- she came in second, hearing her say she had no regrets about how
- the race came out and the media saying how dissapointed she was
- that she didn't get the gold. it seems to me they did this with
- another swimmer too, but i can't remember his name. the media
- seems to take all this "we got more medals than you have" stuff
- more seriously than some of the athletes.
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- pauline
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