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...explain his jarring assertion that the service of I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch in the Cabinet of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion...
...person team in Lillehammer. She doesn't ski or skate, and she majored in English at Barnard before joining TIME's New York City news desk a decade ago. But she has covered Olympics both chilly (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992) and steamy (Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers in France to transportation in Seoul. She has reported from Odessa, Ukraine, about figure skater Oksana Baiul and from Copenhagen...
Schrobsdorff's way of relaxing after the Barcelona Olympics was to get married. She is based in Brussels. Her husband, a Swede with roots in the north, lives in Stockholm. The wedding was in Lapland. She wore a crown of gold with spikes festooned with pearls, and looked, she says, "like an escapee from EuroDisney." Despite the ancient rivalry between Norway and Sweden, she has been greeted warmly -- and efficiently. "The Norwegians are so organized that we finished most of the work last September. We're still waiting for the Barcelonans to send the rest of our phone bill...
...Prague and New Delhi are all tuning in to Santa Barbara on TV, and wriggling into 501 jeans, while singing along to Madonna's latest in English. CNN (which has grown 70-fold in 13 years) now reaches more than 140 countries; an American football championship pits London against Barcelona. As fast as the world comes to America, America goes round the world -- but it is an America that is itself multi-tongued and many hued, an America of Amy Tan and Janet Jackson and movies with dialogue in Lakota...
...Olympics are nothing new to van Leeuwen. Two years ago, he was in Barcelona, Spain competing for a spot on the U.S. Team...