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Sports seating policy in the United States, which hosts the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament, virtually rules out any chance of a tragedy like Saturday’s in England where 94 people died, United States sports officials said yesterday. In the United States, fans are seated during sporting events and in almost all cases they are assigned specific seats. Many British soccer supporters prefer standing, and this practice allowed Saturday’s F.A. Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield to turn into a disaster when thousands of fans without tickets poured onto the terrace, crushing and trampling to death 94 people. "Most American sports fans could not understand how this tragedy could happen,” said Scott LeTeliier, the president of the World Cup United States of America 1994 Organising Committee.—NZPA-Reuter.
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