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...extracurricular activities. "Off duty, I'd walk around in a tank top so people could see my tattoos," he says. "I wore my Dr. Martens, kept my hair as short as possible and tucked in my pants the way Nazis used to do. I had a Third Reich battle flag in my locker and the Confederate Stars and Bars on my wall...
There was a wonderful tableau at the end of Thursday evening when Johnson beamed on the center medal platform as O'Brien, who had just completed his final event, the 1,500 m, ran a victory lap with the American flag. There they were, two men robbed by fate in '92, covered in the cheers of 80,000. When it came time for O'Brien to take the stand, he remembered he had left his warm-up suit behind. So he borrowed the suit of another man of similar height and weight. That's how Michael Johnson's track suit...
DEFECTED. RAED AHMED, 29, Iraqi Olympic weight lifter who carried his nation's flag into the opening ceremony. Ahmed exclaimed, "I'm escaping from the hell of Iraq...
That is very much what Atlanta, and the world, is facing now, as the magic that was supposed to surround the Centennial Games was undone in two moments, when a plane suddenly plunged and when a strong shuddering left every flag hanging at half-staff. It takes only a small bomb, and anxieties run like a fuse. After the explosion in the dead of night, every tremble became an aftershock. A volunteer touched a microphone, and everybody jumped. A box of paper on the floor prompted worried looks. As people looked over their shoulders, a shiver led to a global...
Upon discovering that he was the false starter, Christie was astonished and removed the red flag from his block, refusing to leave the lane of his last major track event...