NEWS FROM NAGANO: A DAILY DOSE OF OLYMPIC HEADLINES : SECURITY TIGHTENED AFTER AIRPORT ATTACK.Police on Tuesday tightened their already heavy security for the Olympics after a rocket attack at Tokyo's main international airport. The attack came as thousands of foreign athletes, officials and spectators are streaming through the airport on their way to the Nagano Games, which start on Saturday. Police have no evidence the launch of the homemade rockets, which injured one worker, was aimed at disrupting the flow of people to Nagano, airport spokesman Fujio Takahashi said. And while no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect it was carried out by leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left radicals who have long opposed the building of a second runway there. Don't expect a postcard NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. may be the Olympic network of the future, but for the Nagano Games NBC Sports NBC Sports is a division of NBC, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. The NBC Sports broadcast lineup includes: The Olympic Games (through 2012), the NFL, the NHL, Notre Dame Football, the PGA Tour, the USGA Championships, Wimbledon, the French president Dick Ebersol Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (born July 28, 1947 in Torrington, Connecticut) is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of Saturday Night Live is staying home. Ebersol's decision to skip a visit to Nagano drew a tongue-in-cheek response from IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= vice president Dick Pound, who negotiated the $5.47 billion deal with NBC. NBC takes over for the next five Games through 2008 after CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. broadcasts this year's Olympics. Pound sent Ebersol a fax listing David Letterman's top 10 reasons why the NBC official is not coming to Japan. The list to the weight-conscious TV executive begins with No. 10: ``Too many calories in raw fish.'' Long and short of it Figure skater Tara Lipinski Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10 1982) is an American figure skater and celebrity. At the age of 15, she won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and remains the youngest gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. already has some of the most impressive numbers at the Winter Games
Lipinski is an athlete of extremes on the U.S. Olympic team - the youngest (15 years, 8 months), shortest (4-foot-10) and lightest (80 pounds) woman on the squad of almost 200 athletes. The USOC (Universal Service Order Code) An equipment coding system created by AT&T. The number was applied to telephone equipment and to wire termination patterns. See 568A. said 17-year-old speedskater Daniel Weinstein was the youngest man; speedskater Derek Parra and Nordic combined athletes Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane the shortest men at 5-5; and Spillane and ski jumper Alan Alborn the lightest men at 125. Elders of the men's and women's squads are curling's John Gordon (39 years, 9 months) and biathlon's Deborah Nordyke (35 years, 7 months). Tallest are hockey players Derian Hatcher (6-5) and A.J. Mleczko (5-11). Heavyweights are bobsledder Chip Minton (245) and hockey player Angela Ruggiero (175). -- Daily News Wire Services COUNTDOWN TO OLYMPICS Days until opening ceremony: 3. Snowfall Tuesday: No new snow in both Nagano city and on men's downhill course. Current blanket is 6.3 inches in Nagano and 85 inches on the downhill course. Olympic update: IOC officials urged the United States and Iraq to observe a U.N.-sponsored ``Olympic Truce'' during the Nagano Games, but said the matter is out of their hands. Iraq has no delegation in Japan. Carrying the torch: The Olympic flame passed through the towns of Yamanouchi, Nakano, Shimosuwa, Okaya, Hotaka, Akashina and Shiga, all in Nagano on Tuesday. Going for the gold: Prince Albert of Monaco, competing in his fourth consecutive Winter Olympics, made a practice run on the bobsled track Tuesday. - Associated Press |
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