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Article: Jordan: Trying to build a better nation through sports.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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Byline: Mark Maloney

ATHENS _ One of the smaller contingents at the Athens Olympic Games is the eight-athlete team from Jordan.

The head of that nation's National Olympic Committee has big plans, though.

Not just to improve Jordan's Olympic performances but to use sports as a bridge that will build a better nation.

"We're hoping to really give sports a very major change, a very major push," said His Royal Highness Prince Feisel Al-Hussein, of the Royal Hashemite Court and brother of Jordan's reigning King Abdullah. "About half our population is 18 and under. So with that many young people in Jordan, we thought that sports would ...

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