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Ueberroth wants Cuba in baseball classic
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| Last Edited | User 13 Dec 23, 2005 04:25pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
| News Date | Friday, December 23, 2005 10:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth called on the Bush administration to reverse its decision to keep Cuba out of next year's World Baseball Classic.
Ueberroth, a former baseball commissioner and head of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, said last week's decision by the Treasury Department to deny Cuba a permit to play in the 16-team event will damage American efforts to host the Olympics in the future. Olympic host countries must guarantee all nations can participate.
"It is important to any future bid city from the United States that this be reversed," Ueberroth said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's disappointing. This will impact IOC members negatively. This may be the only example of a country prohibiting competition on an international scale." |
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