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DATE: THURSDAY, July 5, 1990                   TAG: 9007050248
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GERMANYS UNIFYING FOR OLYMPICS, TOO

Germany will send a unified team to the Winter and Summer Olympics in 1992, the presidents of the two national Olympic committees announced on Wednesday.

It will be the first time since the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo that the Germanys will compete with a unified team.

Willi Daume, president of the West German Olympic Committee, and Joachim Weiskopf, president of the counterpart East German organization, said the two national committees will merge in December to oversee the formation of a team.

The union will follow the political merging of the two German states, expected in early December.

"We had no dissenting opinions whatsoever," Daume said.

The first appearance by the united German team in international athletics likely will be at the World Indoor Track Championships in Seville, Spain, on March 8-10, 1991, authorities in East Berlin said.

Weiskopf said it was not yet clear how the team would be selected and funded.

by CNB