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...those who helped shuttle the sparkler to Sohn were several American sportswriters who had misplaced their cynicism in the excitement of the city. At Inchon, John Jeansonne of New York's Newsday hit an invisible speed bump and took an incredible header, but with an Olympian effort kept the torch from touching the ground and finished his kilometer awash in Mercurochrome...
Last week, briefly, an exaggerated wire-service report made it seem that protest had veered into real violence and an attack on the Games. On the route of the Olympic-torch procession, outside the Seoul city limits at the gate of Kyungwon University, police and students clashed in the familiar rock and fire-bomb ritual. The students were driven back, and one bomb was thrown over the university wall. It burned out at least 15 minutes before the torchbearer passed...
...serious of enemies for more than a millennium. The last of Japan's invasions on the peninsula ended up with Tokyo colonizing its neighbor from 1910 until 1945, forcing Koreans to adopt Japanese beliefs, Japanese words, even Japanese names. In fact, the man given the honor of carrying the torch into the Olympic stadium was, symbolically enough, Sohn Kee Chung, the Korean who won the 1936 marathon running reluctantly under a Japanese name and flag and who became a symbol for Korea's resistance...
...fleet of flags and a parade of nations, ancient drums and modern skydivers, the torch, the oath, 88 trumpeters, 144 robots, 2,400 pigeons, 13,600 athletes. Count...
...election was meant to mark the coming of age of the Baby Boomers. On the Democratic side, Senators Jospeh Biden and Gary Hart both ran as candidates who could relate to the post-World War II generation, and just as JFK noted that a torch had been passed to a new generation, Hart and Biden maintained that they were now carrying a new torch...