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...That's a real problem, because Macedonia has hardly any friends among its neighbors. Serbia has always wanted to dominate it, Greece doesn't even recognize the state's name as legitimate, and Bulgaria, while it recognizes Macedonia, believes the Macedonians are actually Bulgarians and their nationhood is fictitious. Bulgaria would be happy to assimilate the Macedonians under the guise of helping them, which is why their offer of military assistance was turned down by Skopje. And they're certainly not going to get any help from Kosovo or Albania...
...women's event, Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria scored a little revenge on Olympic gold medallist Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus, winning in a time...
They play elevator music on the radio in South Africa. Lionel Richie is still big in Poland. And the Backstreet Boys have hit the airwaves in Bulgaria. The reason I know all this, even though it's been years since I've been overseas, is that I've spent the past week tuning in to radio stations around the world on my home PC. I've tapped my toes to Celtic rhythms on LiveIreland.com caught the latest Euro-pop from Eldoradio in Luxembourg, and discovered my new favorite station: Radio Slovenia. I wasn't even sure where Slovenia...
IVAN IVANOV (bottom) Country: Bulgaria Sport: Weight lifting Games low point: Stripped of his silver medal for a positive drug test...
...issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight for the glory of her country. Maybe Jenny Craig should try an incentive like that...