British Gold Medalist Richard Faulds and Spanish Tennis Player Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario to Chat On Lycos From Sydney Olympics.Sports Editors/Olympic Writers & Columnists WALTHAM, Mass.--(BW SportsWire)--Sept. 20, 2000 Lycos, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) A technology used to make microdisplays for rear-projection TVs and head-mounted displays (HMDs). Each LCoS chip hosts a grayscale LCD shutter sandwiched between a cover glass and a mirror. ), the Internet's leading multi-brand network, today announced chats with Richard Faulds who took the Gold in the men's trap shotgun for Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. and Spanish tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Fans can access the Olympic chats at http://www.olympics.com or from http://olympics.lycos.com. Fans are encouraged to check out the Special Events Chat Calendar on Lycos for daily updates on all chat schedules with Olympic athletes from Sydney. Many of the athlete chat sessions will be hosted at the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Surf Shack in the Athletes Village and fans will be able to view these chat sessions through IBM's Web cam See Webcam. on olympics.com. Richard Faulds - Thursday, September 21, 9 p.m. Eastern time/6 p.m. Pacific time Britian's Richard Faulds, 23, earned his country's second gold in men's double trap shotgun after a dramatic shootoff with defending gold medalist Russell Mark of Australia. The Australian could only hit two out of four targets in the shoot-out, compared to Faulds' three. This was Britain's first shooting gold medal in 12 years. Faulds is a shooting instructor in West London. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario - Friday, September 22, 7 p.m. Eastern time/4 p.m. Pacific time Fifth seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario will play China's Na Li in women's tennis singles. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, 29, started playing tennis at age 4 by following her brothers to the court and playing against the wall with her first racquet. She turned professional in June 1985. In 1998, Sanchez-Vicario received Spain's highest award, the Principe De Asturiaso, for her lifetime achievement in tennis; the award is Spain's equivalent to a Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. and she is the first Spanish woman and third female athlete to receive the award. This is her second Olympics appearance. About Lycos, Inc. Founded in 1995, Lycos, Inc. is a leading Web media company and owner of the Lycos Network, one of the most visited hubs on the Internet reaching nearly one out of every two U.S. Web users. The Lycos Network is a unified set of Web sites, attracting a diverse audience by offering a variety of services, including leading Web search and navigation resources; Web community and communications services including free homepage building, free Web-based e-mail, clubs, chat, instant messaging; a personalized My Lycos start page; a comprehensive shopping center featuring more than 3,100 merchants; and an assortment of compelling content such as games, music, news, fun and educational information and activities for kids as well as information about investing, technology, entertainment, sports, small business, travel and more. The Lycos Network is composed of Lycos.com, Tripod, WhoWhere, Angelfire, Lycos Communications, HotBot, HotWired, Wired News, Webmonkey, Sonique, Quote, Gamesville, Lycos Zone and Matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. . Headquartered near Boston in Waltham, Mass., Lycos, Inc. is a global Internet leader with a major presence throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada and Latin America. On May 16, Lycos, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement with Terra Networks, S.A. (MC: TRR TRR Transportation Research Record (Journal) TRR Test Readiness Review TRR Target Ranging Radar TRR Total Rate of Return TRR Taiwan Research Reactor ; NASDAQ: TRRA TRRA Terminal Railroad Association (of St. Louis) TRRA Three Rivers Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) TRRA Three River Rowing Association (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ), a global Internet company and the leading provider of Internet access and interactive content and services to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world, under which Terra will acquire Lycos in a stock-for-stock transaction. Upon completion of the transaction, Lycos shareholders will own approximately 41.6% to 49.9% of the new company, Terra Lycos. The formation of Terra Lycos is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. (c)2000 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos(R) is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other trademarks or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. All rights reserved. |
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