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

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 @ 11:48 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Cuba, U.S.A.
Topics:: Finance, Media, Sport
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 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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