Belgrade, April 12 - The Yugoslav team to the Sydney
Olympic Summer Games will number around 120 members, it was said at
Wednesday's session of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee (YOC)
Presidency.
A berth at the Olympics, to be held from Sept. 15-30, has been
secured by 56 athletes in individual and team sports. Yugoslavia
will be represented in nine sports - three team sports and six
individual sports.
There is still a chance for the water polo team to qualify by the
June 10 deadline, as they are to play in a qualifications tournament
in Hanover in early May, as well as for wrestlers, judokas, boxers,
track-and-fielders, kayakers and rowers.
YOK has applied to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for
wild cards for its shooters, Atlanta Olympic medallists Aleksandra
Ivosev and Stevan Pletikosic.
If all goes well, Yugoslavia might be represented at Sydney by
about 80 athletes.
At the last Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, at the time of draconian
international anti-Yugoslav sanctions, the country had 68
representatives in 13 sports - 10 individual and three team sports.
