Word: belarus
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...women's event, Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria scored a little revenge on Olympic gold medallist Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus, winning in a time...
...while, Milosevic remained out of sight, whereabouts unknown. His suburban palace looked eerily empty as it stood guarded by a single soldier. Rumors flew that the boss was holed up in a bunker in eastern Serbia or already on a cargo plane to Belarus. In fact, he was locked away, as ever, in his private parallel universe, brooding on his next move, no doubt egged on to defiance by his uncompromising wife Mira. Serbs were so used to his prodigious talent for survival that they feared he still had one more trick up his sleeve. From his balcony overlooking...
...Slobodan Milosevic literally has nowhere else to go in a world that is loath to offer safe haven to indicted war criminals (not even Belarus wanted the grief). He has always lived in a kind of house arrest, deliberately divorcing himself from the society around him. Now it will just be more involuntary. A thirst for revenge goes deep in the Balkans. Milosevic's son Marko, father of the grandson Slobodan hopes to "visit" and whose wealth makes him a target, didn't wait around to test the new government's tolerance; on Saturday he packed himself and his family...
...Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give it the winning ratio of 3.2. Tied in third place would be another two former communist countries, Belarus and Hungary, whose 17 medals and 10 million people gives them a ratio of 1.7. Behind them come the Netherlands (25 medals for 15.7 million people) with a ratio of 1.67 and Rumania (26 medals and 22 million people) with 1.2. Of the top three medal-winning countries, Russia leads...
IVAN IVANKOV (top) Country: Belarus Sport: Gymnastics Games low point: Weakness in floor exercise cost him bronze medal...