Cuba, U.S.A.: Watching the Games

Posted 21 August 2008 11:48 GMT

Countries	Cuba, U.S.A.
Topics	Sport, Economics & Business, Media & Journalism
Languages	English
Special	Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Cuba

“Cuba is a sports-loving country, and interest extends beyond the island’s participation, to that of athletes from other latitudes”: Circles Robinson writes about the experience of watching the Olympics from Havana, adding that “there could be nothing more diametrically opposed than Olympics sports coverage in Cuba and the United States.”

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