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...course, neither can nor should give any guarantees against demonstrations or defections. To answer any legitimate Soviet worries, however, Ueberroth and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish diplomat who heads the International Olympic Committee, flew from the Manhattan torch-carrying ceremony to Washington for a prearranged meeting with Ronald Reagan. It was already too late: even as they waited at New York City's La Guardia Airport for their chartered jet, they got the first indication of an actual Soviet pullout, news that was confirmed when they reached Washington. Nonetheless, they received from the President a letter pledging strict U.S. adherence...
Immediately after the Soviet announcement, Greece renewed a suggestion first made in 1980 to be the host of the Games every four years, as it did for more than 1,000 years that ended in A.D. 393. But Samaranch and other international Olympic officials cling to the idea of rotating the Games around the world. In any case, Greece, as a member of NATO, might not be considered a totally neutral site. Some athletes speculate about breaking up future Games by holding, say, track-and-field events in one country and swimming races in another...
International Olympic Committee President Juan Samaranch must be one too. During his part in the ceremonies, he said, "We are convinced that once again we will demonstrate to the whole world the true meaning of sport as an illustration of friendship and fraternity, with the Olympic flag as the symbol." When Mika Spiljak, whose official title is "President of the Presidency," declared the Games open, doves raced balloons to the mountaintops. In one translation of the Olympic oath, vowed to for all by Yugoslav Skier Bojan Krizaj, the phrase "in the spirit of true sportsmanship" came out "in the spirit...
...snow by the clump, hauling it out in what appear to be orange parachutes, dumping it down orange funnels, stomping it into the bad spots. They are sweating, if no one else is. "I can assure you, there is plenty of snow for the competition," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish president of the International Olympic Committee. "We expect this to be not one of the best, but the actual best of all the 14 Winter Games." Indeed, the facilities are handsome. Mike Moran, press director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, says, "The village is the nicest one, summer...
...years passed, and now Samaranch appears ebulliently at ease. Los Angeles had no rivals in bidding for the coming Summer Games, but Samaranch says that Brisbane, New Delhi, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Stockholm are fighting over 1992, and the entries are not closed yet. The Olympic spirit is hopeful again. If it would only snow...