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Old June 8th 10, 07:20 PM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
TheCoz
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Default Cyclists receive gold medals -- 60 years late

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100608...20100608112442
So was there a reason why the team was not notified by the Olympic
committee by mail or telegram?
Coz
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Old June 9th 10, 02:14 AM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
z, fred
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Default Cyclists receive gold medals -- 60 years late

TheCoz wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100608...20100608112442
So was there a reason why the team was not notified by the Olympic
committee by mail or telegram?
Coz


Or carrier pigeon?
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Old June 9th 10, 02:31 AM posted to rec.bicycles.racing
Davey Crockett[_5_]
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Default Cyclists receive gold medals -- 60 years late

TheCoz a écrit profondement:

| http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100608...20100608112442
| So was there a reason why the team was not notified by the Olympic
| committee by mail or telegram?
| Coz

Things were not overly organized back in those days as I remember.

Perhaps Rogge either discovered the ommission, or knew about it from
some other source, and used his position as President to correct an
ancient omission.

Good for Rogge.

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Davey Crockett
 




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