Goodwill Games Trimmed

Wed., Sept. 25, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

With $5 million in prize money and a pared-down schedule of television-friendly sports, the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York City and its Long Island suburbs, will try to reverse a trend of red ink and empty seats.

Gone are such Olympian but low-viewership events as archery, judo, rowing, canoeing, team handball and taekwando. Among the sports taking center stage will be track, swimming, diving, basketball and the favorites of female viewers, figure skating and gymnastics.

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