Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before yanking the Olympics off to sanctified Greece, look at your Thucydides, wherein you'll find that in 420 B.C. guards were used at Olympia, ostensibly to prevent an "invasion" by Spartans, who had been barred from the Games, allegedly for violating an Olympic truce. Purity has always been in short supply, and history does indeed seem to repeat itself. Jack C. Rossetter Elmwood Park...
Amid the crumbling columns and pediments in the ancient city of Olympia, a shaft of sunlight glanced off a reflector one day last week and set fire to a slender torch. Next week, after a 5,000-mile flight from the Peloponnesian Peninsula to Athens to the U.S., and a 780-mile relay run from the Virginia Tidewater to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, the Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid...
...TORCH is at Lake Placid. They carried it all the way from Olympia for the first time in the history of American Olympic Games, and nobody would have known the difference if they had lit it with a bic. But the authenticity of the Olympic tradition--and the universal respect that this tradition elicits, has suddenly been threatened by the United States. The Olympics are an endangered species--a venerated institution that represents more than athletic competition...
...effectiveness of Carter's request for a boycott is dubious--the consequences should not be tolerated. In August 1980, the flame from Olympia will be in Moscow--so should the U.S. Olympic Team...