Word: altius
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...profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius, fortius than the last. Two cities had asked for the '84 Games, but in 1985 a dozen came begging for the '92 Winter Games, and six vied for the summer events. What they were willing to do, and what it all might lead to, was evident from the get-go. Brisbane...
...Citius, Altius, Fortius, and they give you the gold: it's the Olympic Way. But figure skating is not there yet, and this makes Nagano tough to handicap. With styles for every judge's taste, the program will include Todd Eldredge, 26, the five-time American champ from Chatham, Mass., who is back on form after suffering shoulder and rib injuries but has yet to land a quad in competition; a pair of elegant young Russians, Ilia Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, exemplars of old-school, glamour-puss skating; and a sleeper. American Michael Weiss, 21, from Fairfax, Va., will hope...
...stick it in order to give the U.S. women the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition. She didn't even need to vault, as arithmetic turned out, but no matter. Strug did more than win a gold medal. She added another word to the Olympic credo: Citius, altius, fortius, audacius. Faster, higher, stronger, braver...
...Altius, America. After basking in the opening ceremony and the first parade of nations to include every nation (197 in '96), the Atlanta Journal-Constitution summed up the first day of competition with this banner headline: NO GOLD FOR US. The message was that there was something ignoble about the two silvers and the bronze that U.S. athletes won that day, and by extension the dross won by athletes from other nations. Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia certainly appreciated the bronze medal she won for the women's 10-m air rifle. Ivosev has a training problem, which would be laughably...
...following pages, we will take a look back at the history of the Games, visit their newest host, provide a guide through the maze of events, profile six athletes who embody the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius (Swifter, Higher, Stronger), and, in a series of photographs, show the timeless quality of the Olympics. But for now, Let the Games begin...