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Gilad Lustig, director of Israel’s Elite Sport Department assesses his country’s medal prospects. Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post:

“A failure to win a medal will be a disappointment,” says Lustig, the director of Israel’s Elite Sport Department, the division set up in 1984 to oversee the selection of athletes for the Olympics.

“I hope we claim between one or two medals and reach between six and eight finals.

“It is, however, much tougher to take a medal these days. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, for example, 80 different countries claimed medals, while in the 2004 Athens Olympics only 75 countries won medals.”

Zinger, the secretary general of the Olympic Committee of Israel will be the delegation’s chief of mission in China and is also expecting to return to Israel with at least one medal.

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