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P<\/SPAN>resident Leonel Fern\u00e1nez gave the national flag to the Dominican Olympic Committee which will travel soon to the games in China. Members of the Committee include Luis\u00edn Mej\u00eda, president; Juan Vila, Chief of Mission; Sports Minister Felipe (Jay) Payano; Dr. Milton Pinedo, Chief Physician and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ramos, Deputy Mission Chief. President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez wished success to the Dominican athletes and delegation traveling to Beijing for the Olympics. <\/SPAN> The president said these games represent a great challenge because of the quality of athletes competing from other countries in the various sporting events. <\/P> The Dominican delegation will leave Saturday for Japan where they will spend 15 days before going to Beijing for the opening of the Olympic Games. <\/SPAN><\/P> President Fern\u00e1nez, meeting in the Ambassadors Hall of the National Palace, said that despite some of the problems, the Olympic Games in Beijing have generated enthusiasm on a world scale. He said he felt proud and honored by the participation of the Dominican athletes who will compete in nine events. <\/SPAN><\/P> The president said these games represent a great challenge because of the quality of athletes competing from other countries in the various sporting events. <\/SPAN><\/P> The Dominican delegation is made up of a total of 55 people, of which 25 are competing athletes and the remainder delegates and trainers. The DR will compete in running, judo, boxing, sailing and swimming, among other things. <\/SPAN><\/P> Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) president Luisin Mej\u00eda thanked President Fern\u00e1ndez and stressed that the Dominican athletes have very real possibilities of winning medals in Beijing. Sports Minister Felipe (Jay) Payano called this year\u00b4s participation in the Olympics historical. He noted that the effort and support from President Fern\u00e1ndez to develop sports in the DR has been crucial. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/SPAN> <\/A> Dominican Flag Given to Olympic Team to Travel to China Games President Leonel Fern\u00e1nez gave the national flag to the Dominican Olympic Committee which will travel soon to the games in China. Members of the Committee include Luis\u00edn Mej\u00eda, president; Juan Vila, Chief of Mission; Sports Minister Felipe (Jay) Payano; Dr. Milton Pinedo, Chief Physician … Continue reading “Dominican Flag Given to Olympic Team to Travel to China Games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: July 19, 2008<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"