Ghanaian Boxer Expected Back
Super-heavyweight boxer Liadi Alhassan of Ghana mysteriously interrupted his training to apparently take an out-of-state trip.
Alhassan hitched a ride to a Greyhound bus station in Marietta, Ga., on Wednesday, then told the chef de mission of the Ghanian team by telephone that he wanted to visit a woman in New York but would return to the training camp by today. It was not thought to be a political asylum case.
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For the second day in a row, Olympic sailors stayed onshore in Savannah, Ga., as Hurricane Bertha swept up the Atlantic coast. The 500 athletes who will compete in the Olympic yachting events probably won’t be allowed back in the water until Saturday.
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