Word: olympicsized
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TIME'S correspondents, writers and researchers covering the 1976 Summer Olympics are obviously on the announcer's side, but some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid...
Texas-born Associate Editor David Tinnin, who wrote the accompanying piece on the increasing politicization of the Olympics, was the German collegiate champion in the 100-and 200-meter sprints (in 1950 and 1952) while attending the University of Heidelberg. He had Olympic visions but opted instead for Cambridge University...
Not Acceptable. Nonetheless, Killanin began arranging a compromise. Just 48 hours before the opening of the Games last week, Canada agreed that Taiwan could keep its flag and its anthem as long as it dropped the name Republic of China and instead called itself simply Taiwan. That was still not...
The Games have previously posed problems for the Taiwanese. In 1959 the I.O.C. voted to eject the Chinese National Olympic Committee, as Taiwan's members were then known, in an initial attempt to add mainland China to the organization. In the 1960 Rome Games the Taiwanese participated under a...
One of Taiwan's difficulties with the 1976 Olympics was that this year, for the first time, the host country had formally recognized Peking. But patently, more than a scrupulous regard for formalities was behind Canada's rough treatment of Taiwan. Ottawa was surely sensitive to the fact...