In an article written before the ceremony, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported : " It is annoying that they are bringing the Ground Zero flag . . . . It doesn't have anything to do with the Olympics ."
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In choosing Peterson, eight captains of American teams bypassed skier Picabo Street, who lobbied for the honor for the past year, especially the last two days . She still could be chosen to help carry the ground zero flag.
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An honor guard of eight U . S . athletes will carry the ground zero flag into Rice-Eccles Stadium a few minutes after the ceremonies open as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings the U . S . national anthem.
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The ground zero flag was flying at the World Trade Center the morning of September 11th and then burried in rubble for three days . It will fly atop Rice-Eccles Stadium instead, next to the cauldron bearing the Olympic flame.
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Earlier this week, the ruling Olympic body came under withering criticism for nixing a request by the U . S . to allow athletes and officials to escort the ubiquitous ground-zero flag, rescued from the World Trade Center, in the Opening Ceremony.
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For instance, 1 / 0 returns + ", while also setting the divide-by-zero flag bit ( this default of " is designed so as to often return a finite result when used in subsequent operations and so be safely ignored ).
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For example, an arithmetic operation in the main program having the "'0 "'number as a result, will cause zero flag bit to be set in CCR . This will cause the value in ( SP ) to be changed in the trace vector.
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Part of Mischer's job will be to balance this country's recent swell of patriotism with modern Olympic ideals . The Ground Zero Flag from the World Trade Center will be paraded into the stadium by eight U . S . athletes, one from each of the winter sports.
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The chapter on Sept . 11, which posed a much graver threat to the Salt Lake Games than the bid scandal, is shorter than " Funds From the Feds . " The tense showdown with the IOC about US athletes bringing in the ground zero flag during the opening ceremonies gets only a couple of pages.
