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Macedonia
prepares
for
opening
ceremony
of
Summer
Olympic
Games
in
Athens
 Macedonian
Information
Agency
(Aug
13,
2004,
6:49:49
PM
(GMT+01:00)) (MIA) -
The
28th
Summer
Olympic
Games
will
be
formally
opened
Friday
in
Athens.
Macedonian
Olympic
team
includes
ten
athletes,
four
judges
and
two
young
athletes
as
the
country's
representatives
to
the
Olympic
Youth
Camp.
Members
of
the
Macedonian
team
are:
Mogamed
Ibragimov
and
Shihamir
Osmanov
-
wrestling;
Vesna
Stojanovska,
Aleksandar
Miladinovski,
Zoran
Lazarovski
and
Aleksandar
Malenko
-
swimming;
Aleksandra
Vojnovska
and
Vane
Stojanov
-
athletics;
Divna
Pesic
-
archery;
Lazar
Popovski
-
kayak
slalom
and
judges
Zoran
Popovski
-
tennis;
Ljupco
Janev
-
wrestling,
Dragan
and
Marjan
Najcevski
-
handball.
Tennis
player
Iva
Velkova
and
wrestler
Dejan
Bogdanov
are
Macedonian
representatives
in
the
Olympic
Youth
Camp.
At
tomorrow's
opening
ceremony,
Blagoja
Georgievski
-
Bustur
will
carry
the
Macedonian
flag.
He
is
a
winner
of
silver
medal
as
a
member
of
the
former
Yugoslavia
basketball
team
at
the
1976
Montreal
Games.
The
Olympic
Village
for
the
Athens
Games
was
officially
opened
on
July
30
with
the
first
athletes
moving
in
two
weeks
ahead
of
the
opening
ceremony.
The
village
will
accommodate
16,000
athletes
and
officials,
looked
after
by
a
staff
of
11,
000.
The
staff
will
provide
about
60
000
meals
per
day,
while
the
village
has
a
state
of
the
art
medical
service
and
a
huge
internet
cafe.
The
area,
enclosed
by
double
walls
and
guarded
by
hundreds
of
police,
has
swimming
pools,
theaters,
restaurants,
discos,
bars,
places
of
worship
and
nearly
3,000
apartment
suites.
The
trip
to
the
Olympic
stadium
takes
around
20
minutes
while
coastal
venues
are
a
50-minute
drive
away
from
the
village
located
on
the
edge
of
the
Greek
capital.
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2000
MIA
-
Macedonian
Information
Agency.
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material
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published,
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