Talk:Lilia Podkopayeva

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The clear favorite going into the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Lilia overcame the clear favoritism toward the American athletes, and won the all-around title convincingly.

I've tweaked this sentence somewhat because it shows POV. There was no favoritism shown to the American girls in the all-around. They received fair scores, which included a 9.0 on one event for one of them. DanielEng 07:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)