Word: olympiade
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...been better? America's Olympics closed with the usual expressions of hope, as the five-ring flag was passed from Los Angeles to another neutral location, Seoul, Korea, where doom is expected again in four years, and the athletes will probably come through once more. The XXIII Olympiad was handsome and bright, not completely smog-free but, as British Runner Steve Cram said, "You should see it where I live," just outside Newcastle. Bringing a world of people to Los Angeles did seem a little like fetching coals to his neighborhood, but the capacities of the freeways were...
...Olympiad was another step forward for women's sports...
...Then his gaze shifted to the long jump, the 200 and the relay, to Jesse Owens certainly, maybe even Bob Beamon. The miraculous jump of 29 ft. 2½ in. might still be 4 in. beyond him, but it may be that nothing is beyond him. As the XXIII Olympiad turns for home, his medals will mark the rest of the way. ?By Tom Callahan. Reported by Steven Holmes, Joseph J. Kane and Richard Woodbury/ Los Angeles
...buildings. "Even the simplest new structures would have cost at least $500 million," says Ed Keen, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's construction boss. "We couldn't afford such white elephants. So we decided to adapt 26 old athletic facilities-some left over from the 1932 Olympiad-and decorate them to give them a unified look...
...four years ABC has been preparing for the XXIII Olympiad, practicing its skills, flexing its electronic muscles and pouring more than $325 million TV rights and enough new gadgets and gizmos to set up a whole new network. This week, as the Los Angeles Games begin, an expected audience of -is it possible? - 2 billion plus, over half the people on earth, will be able to judge what ABC has achieved with all that money and exertion. Never in TV history have so many events been covered over so vast an area. Says Julius Barnathan, head...