Word: olympiades
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Atlanta Journal and Constitution writer Mark Bradley came the closest to the way I feel about the Olympics when he wrote--perhaps a touch over-optimistically--"Forget being merely the hub of the New South. An Olympiad and its attendant fallout could make Atlanta a hub of the New America...
...Games of the Los Angeles Olympics were homogeneous, sunny, reassuring, nice. The color palette of the cardboard columns and fabric-covered fences was precisely of its time and place, beach-blanket postmodernism come to temporary life. For mere millions of dollars (rather than hundreds of millions), an Olympiad found its perfect aesthetic expression...
...time Olympic decathlon champion. "Does he know you're coming?" asked the agent, pointing out Thompson's notorious avoidance of the press. "He doesn't give interviews, you know." He did to Callahan, and the result is part of our special section on the Summer Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul...
...have been tuning up for months. Soon the guests from 161 countries will be arriving: 250,000 tourists, 14,000 journalists and, most important, 13,000 athletes and sports officials. A global television audience of more than 1 billion people will tune in as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad get under...
...weightroom and on horseback, hopeful Olympians have been getting ready -- straining for two weeks of fame after four years of obscurity. In a special photo essay, TIME' s Neil Leifer captures American competitors Jackie Joyner- Kersee, Greg Louganis, Carl Lewis and others shaping up for the XXIV Summer Olympiad...