Athletes from five republics in the former Soviet Union will compete this year as one Olympic team under an agreement reached Saturday by Russian president Boris Yeltsin and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
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The agreement will bring together athletes from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as teammates in the Winter Games next month. Samaranch said the team members would wear the same uniform, except for a small emblem on the arm indicating the athlete's home republic.