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...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...
...while Russia's 88 medals in Sydney may have put it in second place behind the old enemy's 97, that's only because Moscow lost most of its empire in the last decade. Add only the 17 medals snagged by tiny Belarus or the Ukraine's 23, and the ex-Reds were way out on top. To those add the smaller hauls by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and the former Soviet Union took home a staggering 163 medals. But hey, they lost the Cold War, and that means we won the Olympics...
...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...
...exactly wield much influence in Belgrade. Their best bet for diplomatic leverage remains Moscow, which played the key role in persuading the Serb strongman to back down in Kosovo. Diplomatic efforts are reportedly afoot to coax Milosevic into leaving Serbia and seeking asylum either in Russia or Belarus to avoid prosecution in the Hague. But that may be overstating his immediate crisis - after all, Kostunica has stated that he's not interested in sending Milosevic for trial as a war criminal (a demand that has little resonance in Serbia), and even if Milosevic concedes the presidency, his control...