Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympic flame, kindled at the ruins of Olympia in Greece, arrived in New York City twelve hours later aboard a U.S. Air Force jet. It was a dispiriting day for pageantry: raw, windy, drizzly. But as runners started the torch on its zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer...
...again (as they did in Sarajevo last winter) to the G.D.R. Athletes are joining in the worn discussion of a permanent site in Greece, neglecting to consider who pays for pools and stadiums in use two weeks every four years. "Treat it like a sanctuary, as they did in Olympia," Diver Greg Louganis urges. "It was the Greek's form of worship. Why not bring it back as that?" But John Naber disagrees: "The Games are a social and cultural exchange, a big party. You don't want the party to be held in the same home every...
...Olympic history. Sections of the route would be "sold" at $3,000 a kilometer to sponsors who contribute to charity. Doing it the American way, the Olympic flame would arrive from Greece electronically. AT&T, which is sponsoring the Olympic relay, set up a system at the ruins in Olympia to convert the flame to an electronic impulse. This was to have been transmitted by satellite this week to a receiver in New York City's U.N. Plaza. Unfortunately, the L.A.O.O.C. forgot a lesson as old as the Iliad: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts or, in this case, guarding...
...Greeks protested the "unholy exploitation" of the Olympic flame. The International Olympic Committee actually owns the flame, but the Greeks are its guardians. "The flame for us is a sacred thing. It is not for sale," declared Spyros Foteinos, mayor of Olympia, where the ancient Games were first held...
...Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete in two months at the women's running trials in Olympia, Wash. "I won't win there," she admits. "But I'm going because I won the privilege of standing at the line with the greatest...