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USOPC asked for $200 million in the coronavirus stimulus bill to `sustain American athletes`
As desperate pleas from lobbyists for restaurants, hotels, airlines and other major industries that employ tens of millions of Americans inundated congressional offices last weekend, a request for a $200 million chunk of the coronavirus relief package came from a sports organization that has proudly operated for decades without federal support: the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
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| Notations: | sport history and sport politics |
| Tagging: | Coronavirus |
| Published in: | Washington Post |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/26/usopc-asked-200-million-federal-stimulus-money/ |
| Issue: | 26.3.2020 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | basic |