Word: olympicsized
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On the same afternoon, Tanzania announced that it was boycotting the Games as a gesture against apartheid (see following story), an action that would yank from the Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar...
When the heralds fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already...
Last weekend the governing body of the Games, the International Olympic Committee, was so irate over a dispute between Taiwan and Canada that it threatened the ultimate sanction, canceling the entire Olympics. The issue: Taiwan's right to fly a flag with the word "China" on it. Canada, which...
The Olympics have become the world's biggest stage-a billion people are expected to view the spectacle on television. As long as that is true, Olympic officials admit, the oil-and-water mixing of politics and sport will continue. With the 1972 Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli athletes...
One of the regrets of the political parrying that surrounds the Olympics is that it threatens to overwhelm the simpler drama of athletes straining to find-and then surpass-their physical limitations. Even if the athlete cannot shave a second off his mortality, he can at least add a moment...