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Article: Games within the games; FROM ARCHERY TO SAILING; FROM SHOOTING TO WRESTLING.(SPECIAL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2000
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Archery
- Look for ... Karen Scavotto, top U.S. hope, who is just 17 years old and ranked 14th in the world, and remember that the U.S. has been shut out of a medal in bow-and-arrow only once since 1972.
- Big story: Sadly, won't be there. U.S. double gold medalist in 1996, Justin Huish, quit the Olympic team in March after being arrested for selling marijuana.
- Web site: www.usarchery.org.
- Did you know? The center gold target, or bullseye, is 6.1 cm. or about 2 1/2 inches in diameter, kind of tiny to hit from 90 meters away.
Badminton
- Look for ... The Chinese and Indonesians athletes. Since 1934, those nations ...