Women's Volley Ball Is Big League In Peru / G C I 275 men shrank away from watching a sport in which on Friday they will meet world andOlympic champion China weeds, says Jesus Paniagua, a volley ball club sponsor http://www.gci275.com/news/post07.shtml
Extractions: Prana Journal Peru's national pride is riding on a dozen women competing in the world women's volleyball championship being played this week in Czechoslovakia. Peruvian women's volleyball has won a following surpassed only by soccer no small accomplishment in a country where macho attitudes would make most men shrank away from watching a sport in which women compete. But watch they do. More than 2 million Peruvians are expected to watch their team in the world championship finals in which on Friday they will meet world and Olympic champion China. The game will be broadcast live nationwide on two TV networks and, because of the time difference, most residents will forgo their lunch breaks to watch in front of Lima shop windows or in restaurants. For the match that cinched their advance to the four-teak finals, many Peruvians got up at 6 in the morning. Peru has fielded solid women's teams for nearly two decades, consistently ending up among the top 19 teams in the world. In the 1982 world championship, with home court advantage, Peru was runner-up.
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ABUJA MIRROR HOME PAGE in the Badmington event at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Niger State at the National Volleyball championship taking Kuta known for encouraging sports has promised http://www.n-today.ndtilda.co.uk/msport173.htm
Extractions: ABUJA MIRROR: JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2000 MIRROR SPORTS Olympic: Nigerias contingent embarks on training tour By Jibril Tahir Nigerian contingent to the 2000 Olympic events in Sydney, Australia, will start flying out of the country as from next Wednesday, on a training tour, preparatory to the Olympic proper in September. Disclosing this to Mirrorsports , the Director of Sports Development in the Ministry of Sports and Social Development, Dr. Amos Adamu, said that while the other teams apart from football will train at a camp in Adelaide, Australia, the football team, the national Under-23 team and the Super Falcons will camp in Germany. Dr. Adamu, who disclosed that the first batch of the contingent would depart the country on August 2, however, said that the whole contingent could not depart at the same time due to logistic reasons; stressing that arrangements have been concluded by Nigeria and the British Airways to airlift the Nigerian contingent to the two training camps in batches. Though there was no official departure time table for the Olympic teams, the likely team that will first depart the country on training tour is the Adelaide bound team, while the football teams will be the last to leave on August 5. Meanwhile, the technical adviser of the Super Eagle, Bonfrere Johannes, who left the country in search of a training camp for the Olympic team is yet to secure a training camp for the Under-23.
Extractions: La compétition belge comporte plus de 50.000 joueurs et joueuses de tous niveaux, de l'échelon provincial à la Division d'Honneur. Les porte-drapeaux de ces dernières années sont les clubs de niveau international Noliko Maaseik, Knack Roeselare, Eburon Tongeren, Asterix Kieldrecht et d'autres qui d'année en année participent au top européen. En 1977 la fédération se scinde en une aile francophone et une aile flamande. Depuis, la Fédération Royale Belge de Volleyball est composée de deux ailes, la Fédération Francophone dans leur bâtiment situé au Boulevard Lambermont, et la Fédération Flamande dans leur Complexe administratif, sportif et hôtelier, Eurovolleycenter, à Vilvorde.
