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- Subject: USOC Notes - 20Jan93
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:33:34 GMT
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- Wednesday, January 20, 1993
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- Golfer Larry Nelson offers ACOG help
- PGA professional Larry Nelson has offered the Atlanta
- Committee for the Olympic Games a custom-designed public golf
- course near Hartsfield Airport if Augusta is scrapped as the site
- for the proposed 1996 Olympic golf competition. The International
- Olympic Committee will decide later this year whether golf will be
- included on the program. Story moved in AP's Names in the Game on
- January 20.
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- U.S. Figure Skating Championships start this week
- The 1993 U.S. Figure Skating Championships are this week in
- Phoenix. A story on the more "open" policies for inclusion in the
- event moved on AP on January 20. Stories also ran in USA Today on
- January 20. For more information, contact Kristin Matta or Matt
- Pensinger at (602) 514-5476.
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- Nebiolo laughs at boycott. . .
- International Amateur Athletic Federation president Primo
- Nebiolo called a threatened boycott of top athletes from next
- year's world championships "comic" and said if the athletes do not
- participate, "...we have million and millions of athletes." Several
- top athletes are seeking prize money for the World Championships,
- scheduled for Stuttgart in August. Athletes have voiced their anger
- over the IAAF's four-year, $91 million TV contract with the
- European Broadcast Union with no money going to the athletes. Story
- moved on Reuters on January 20.
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- and possible trouble in Atlanta
- In a separate story, Nebiolo said that the pending $27.3
- million settlement for Butch Reynolds could threaten the Atlanta
- Olympic Games and the IAAF has no intention of paying any of the
- money. Story moved on Reuters on January 20.
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- O'Brien featured
- A feature story on decathlete Dan O'Brien, who is pointing
- toward the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta after failing to make the
- 1992 U.S. Olympic Team. Story moved on AP on January 20.
-
- Cason coming back
- Sprinter Andre Cason, who was first diagnosed with a torn
- Achilles heal, later found out that it was a leg muscle and now
- feels he can get back into top form. Cason was in a cast for 3 1/2
- weeks before the correct diagnosis was made. Feature story ran on
- AP on January 19.
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- Japan taxing Olympic prize money
- The National Tax Administration Agency in Japan is charging
- tax on prize money awarded to Olympic medalists by the Japanese
- Olympic Committee. Gold medalists from Albertville and Barcelona
- were paid $24,000, silver medalists $16,000 and bronze medalists
- $8,000. They will be taxed between 10 and 50 percent depending on
- the athletes' annual income. Story moved on Reuters on January 20.
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- Chinese claim electronic device used for success
- Chinese media, trying to counter accusations of drug use by
- Chinese athletes, have reported that swimmer Zhuang Yong used an
- electronic gadget to build muscles. The machine builds
- under-developed muscles and was used on Yong's calf muscles, the
- report says. Story moved on Reuters on January 20.
-