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...cradle of the modern Olympics, Athens felt cheated out of its right to host the centennial Games in ?96. Since then the city has made extensive investment in its transport system and infrastructure, whose deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...
...Still smarting from Atlanta's last-minute theft of the centennial Olympiad, Athens is once again the top contender ? closely followed by its centuries-old rival, Rome. But the announcement last week that South African President Nelson Mandela would personally attend the announcement might provide a hot outsider tip: Either Mandela is risking an humiliating photo op when Cape Town loses ? or he knows something the smart money doesn...
...five huge clusters of percussion were pushed onto the field by strange creatures in corresponding colors of red, black, blue, yellow and green, the reaction of the 83,000 people gathered in Olympic Stadium Friday evening was not unlike that of the world when the Games of the XXVI Olympiad were first awarded to Atlanta back in 1990. Namely...
...high school sophomore, he won first place in the most prestigious math competition in the country--the United States Math Olympiad. That same summer he represented the U.S. in international competition in Beijing. Now he spends his summers helping to train future math Olympians at a special camp in Nebraska...
...weekend following our interview, Kedlaya flew to Memphis, Tennessee to help grade the U.S. Math Olympiad--the third in a series of tests begun by several hundred thousand high school students across the country. Undoubtedly, many of them will have dreams of becoming just as "statistically significant" as he.CrimsonJohn C. Mitchell...