ROUNDUP : U.S. BOXER REID WILL STAY ON TEAM.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A USA Boxing USA Boxing is the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, USA Boxing is a non-profit organization responsible for the panel decided Friday to let David Reid David Reid may refer to:
``They decided that because the allegation is still in court, there is no jurisdiction to punish him,'' said Kurt Stennerson, a spokesman for the boxing federation. ``They said this is a personal issue, not a USA Boxing issue.'' The five-member panel voted unanimously after a 40-minute hearing, he said. The panel consisted of the team manager, two assistant coaches and two boxers. The USA Boxing team has been in Orlando, Fla., on a break, Stennerson said, and members were allowed to bring spouses or girlfriends. Reid was arrested at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday in a motel and was released Thursday on $350 bond. Had Reid already been convicted of the charges, he would have been subject to possible expulsion from the team under USA Boxing's code of conduct, but not the U.S. Olympic Committee's newly enacted code. Reid signed 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. code, but USA Boxing's paperwork has not been processed. Only nine Olympic federations are now under the code's jurisdiction, said Mike Moran Mike Moran is the name of:
Diving trials: Mark Lenzi, the defending Olympic springboard champion, came from 10 points behind on his last dive to earn a trip to the Atlanta Games. Scott Donie Scott Richard Donie (born October 10, 1968 in Vicenza, Italy) is an American diver. He captured the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics on the 10 m platform, and then placed 4th in the 3 m springboard at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. claimed the other berth. Lenzi entered the final in fourth place - 41 points behind Donie - and battled furiously to make up ground on Donie and second-place Dean Panaro. Donie finished first with 1202.28 points to Lenzi's 1198.08. Panaro had 1187.16 points. Only the top two qualified for the Olympics. Diving a head of Panaro and Donie, Linzi gradually cut into Panaro's point total as they competed for the second berth. Lenzi had the highest degree of difficulty on his final dive, a 3-1/2 somersault that earned five marks of 9.5 and two 9.0s for a total of 101.80 points. ``I knew everything was on the line with that dive,'' said Lenzi, the local favorite from Bloomington, who won his first world championship and several NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association and Big Ten titles in the Indiana University Natatorium Indiana University Natatorium is a swimming complex on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus in Indianapolis, USA. The natatorium has hosted several NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships and NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships and the pool. Time is running out: Health is no longer Sinjin Smith's big problem. Time is. Smith, the one-time king of the beach, and partner Carl Henkel Carl Henkel (born August 16, 1969 in Redondo Beach, California) is a professional beach volleyball player from the United States, who tied with Sinjin Smith for fifth at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. have only one more month to get ready for beach volleyball's Olympic debut. ``I wish we had six months more,'' Smith said after he and Henkel advanced to the quarterfinals of the Bud Light World Beach Invitational. Smith and Henkel, the seventh-seeded men's team, beat Argentina's Jose Luis Salema Abrantes and Mariano Baracetti, the 26th seeds, 15-7 in their opening match. They got a much closer match from the Netherland's 10th-seeded Olympic duo of Michel Everaert and Sander Mulder, watching a three-point lead dissolve into a 14-14 tie before winning 16-14. On the women's side, all eight U.S. teams remained alive. Olympians Nancy Reno and Holly McPeak, and Barbra Fontana Harris and Linda Hanley easily won two matches each to advance to the quarterfinals. No-hit time: Lisa Fernandez and Michele Granger pitched no-hitters as the U.S. Olympic softball team blanked the New England All-Stars twice. Fernandez struck out all 15 batters she faced in the 8-0 victory in the first game. Granger struck out 17 of the 18 batters she faced in the 9-0 victory in the second game at Worcester State College
The U.S. team is 48-1 in its 21-city tour. A 1-0 loss to an all-star team in Los Angeles was the only defeat. Former Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman made an appearance for New England in the second inning as the batterymate for his wife, Sherry Aselton-Gedman. She retired Leah O'Brien, the only batter she faced. |
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