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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Let's face it. The Olympics have finally spun out of control. Think not? Then take the following quiz: Who was the gold-medal winner in Rhythmic Gymnastics? What is Rhythmic Gymnastics? Name the horse Australian Matthew Ryan rode to victory in the Three-Day Equestrian Event. Who was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Wretched Excess, Please | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

The Olympics have got into a mess, in part, because they are so successful. More athletes competed in Barcelona and more medals were won than in any previous Olympics. More spectators watched it all happen, live and on television. All of which is bound to please the companies that clothe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Wretched Excess, Please | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

In its campaign to take power from the white government, South Africa's black majority has two main weapons: mass protest and international pressure. Most economic and sports sanctions imposed from abroad have now been lifted -- as South Africa's participation in the Barcelona Olympics attests -- so Nelson Mandela and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marching To Pretoria | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

Imagine, then, the sensation for three teenage archers -- half of the third Olympic team ever sent from the Land of the Thunder Dragon -- as they stepped out of their landlocked Himalayan kingdom and into the flashbulb glare of Barcelona's Olympics. Anxiously consulting an astrologer before they left, Bhutan's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memories Great and Small | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

Most often, though, the private memories seemed likely to outlast the public ones: one of the charms of the Olympics is that it plays tricks with perspective, so that ordinary Joes become superstars, and superstars can seem like ordinary Joes. There was Magic Johnson, his smile as broad as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memories Great and Small | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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