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26 sports engaged in com petitive activity.
The sheer q u a n tity o f a c tivity— from p re lim i
Com petition
nary to medal rounds— stretches operational
Aquatics—sw im m ing,
and logistical resources to the lim it and de
water polo
mands the fu ll a tte ntio n o f ACOG's Venue
Badminton
Management Departm ent, broadcasters, and
the press. Fortunately, the m any valuable
Baseball
Basketball
lessons learned in the preceding four days of
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Boxing
co m p e titio n have been applied to every aspect
Cycling—track
o f the Games, and this day is managed w ith
Equestrian
out disruption. The various groups th a t are op
Fencing
erating, broadcasting, reporting, attending,
Football
and e njoying the C entennial O lym pic Games
Gymnastics—artistic
have by now gained enough experience coor
Flandball
d in a tin g th e ir activities and m oving w ith in the
Flockey
Games enviro n m e nt to meet any challenges
M em bers of the Australian sw im team cheer their
Judo
th a t m ay lie ahead. The anxiety Games staff
team m ates on a t the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center.
Rowing
fe lt durin g the first days o f co m p etitio n is
systems are now w orking well, the press corps's
being slow ly replaced w ith a sense o f relief and
criticism o f AGOG w ill continue throughout
Shooting
Softball
Table tennis
enjoym ent, com ing from the recognition that
the Games. D riven by the early and sustained
Tennis
the systems designed and planned to support
the Games work.
criticism by the press, the clash between these
Volleyball—beach, indoor
polar extremes o f o p in io n w ill lead to a con
W eightlifting
Fans and staff, athletes and officials, and
tin u in g debate between an enthusiastic public
Yachting
the hundreds o f m illio n s o f viewers around the
and the cynical press as to the re lia b ility of
w orld w ho are w atching these Games in record
some media support services.
numbers voice almost universal praise fo r A t
lanta's O lym pic efforts. By contrast, though
bo th press transportation and Games results
O lym pic Arts Festival
AllianceTheatre Company:
The Last N ig h t o f
Ballyhoo and Blues fo r an
Alabam a Sky
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
with Jessye Norman
Atlanta Sym phony Youth
Orchestra
Center for Puppetry Arts: The
Hungry Tiger and Other
Tales from China
Netherlands DanceTheater:
Kaguyahime
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Seven Stages: Blue Monk
Southern Crossroads Festival
^ H A R R IS • U IN D A J H A R R IS • L O IS M H A R R IS • L O R E S S A V H A R R IS • L O U IS E H A R R IS • L U C iO U S N H A R R IS • LU C Y M H A R R IS • L U L A B H A R R IS • M A R G A R E T K H A R R IS • M A R IA T H A R R IS . M A R IF
H A R R IS • M A R ILY N R H A R R IS • M A R IN E H A R R IS • M AR K L H A R R IS • M ARY E H A R R IS • M ARY E H A R R IS • M ARY P H A R R IS • M E L A N IE S H A R R IS • M IC H E L L E Y H A R R IS • M IL U IC E N T C H A R R IS • M Y R A C H A R R IS ■
M Y R T LE H A R R IS • N A R V IE H A R R IS • N ATH A S H A R R IS • P A M E LA J H A R R IS • P A M E LA R H A R R IS • P A T R IC IA A H A R R IS • Q U O V A D IS J H A R R IS • R P R E S S L E Y H A R R IS • R A M O N A H H A R R IS • R A N D O L P H H A R R IS
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ATLANTA
1996
/
THE
C E N T E N N I A L
OLYMPIC
GAMES
CELEBRATING
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THE
GAMES
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o m p e t it io n
O utstanding performances are again the order
o f the day at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center,
where the fifth day o f sw im m ing co m p etitio n
is p articula rly intense. New records are set
th ro u g h o u t the day, adding greatly to the au
dience's enthusiasm.
In a stu nn ing tu rn o f events, Australia's
Scott M ille r sets a new O lym pic record fo r the
100 m b u tte rfly durin g his p re lim in a ry heat,
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o n ly to have it swept away in the evening fi-
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top; Australia's equestrian
team salutes the crowd after
receiving gold medals in the
three-day endurance event.
bottom : M em bers of the
US men's hockey team
huddle on the field during a
gam e w ith Argentina.
determ ination o f the athletes and the recordsetting performances fh a t continue to d o m i
nate Atlanta's Games. W endy Schaeffer, a 21year-old rookie from Ausfralia, earns the best
/eft. The N e w Zealand sw im
tea m does its tradition al
"H aka" dance.
r/g/jf; Australia's Shane Kelly
score in the ju m p in g phase o f the three-day
event on her bay gelding, Sunburst, leading
nals by Denis Pankratov o f the Russian Federa
Australia to the gold medal.
tio n , w ho sets a new w orld record as he wins
O n ly tw o m onths before the Games, Schaef
his second gold m edal o f the Games.
fer's O lym pic hopes seemed doomed when fhe
In the women's team medley, the US 4 x
cycles aw ay from th e track
100 m m edley relay team— w h ich includes
to lose about tw o critica l seconds and u lt i
after his fo o t slips out of a
Beth Botsford, backstroke; Amanda Beard,
m ately costing h im the o p p o rtu n ity to q ua lify
pedal, causing him to fail to
breaststroke; Angel M artino, b utterfly; and
fo r the medal race. Kelly, the 1992 silver
Am y Van Dyken, freesfyle—w ins O lym pic gold
m edalist and favorite to w in the gold in 1996,
after fin is h in g more th an tw o seconds ahead
is alm ost energized in defeat, saying, “ You'll
see me in the year 2000."
qualify for the m edal race.
o f the second place Australian team.
Despite years o f athletes' dedicated tra in in g
ners the gold, w h ile Am erican Erin H artw ell
w rong. A t the start o f the men's 1 km tim e
tria l in track cycling, an event in w h ic h even
and Japan's Takanobu J u m o n ji take the silver
and bronze, respectively.
ence, Australia's cyclist Shane "M in u te M an"
fell, p in n in g one o f Schaeffer's legs againsf the
hurdle and causing it to break. Given a dis
couraging prognosis for healing in tim e for the
Games, Schaeffer found a surgeon w illin g to
perform an unusual procedure th a t allowed
her to keep riding.
M eanwhile, France's Florian Rousseau gar
and preparation, sometimes things sim p ly go
h a lf o f a second can make an enormous d iffe r
young horse upon w hich she was com peting
s
Two co m p e titio n stories fro m the Georgia
In te rn a tio n a l Horse Park help to illustrate the
Kelly's fo o t slips o ut o f his pedal, causing h im
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• RAY S H A R R IS • R A Y M O N D J H A R R IS • R G B A E H A R R IS • R IC H A R D W H A R R IS • RITA A H A R R IS • R O B E R T O H A R R IS • R O B E R T D H A R R IS • R O B E R T W H A R R IS • R O B IN Y H A R R IS • R O N N E N E M H A R R IS • R U TH
E H A R R IS • S A N D R A G H A R R IS • S H A R O N D H A R R IS • S H E IL A A H A R R IS « S H E R I H A R R IS • S H E R R Y H A R R IS • S T A N L E Y S H A R R IS • S T A N L E Y M H A R R IS • S T E P H A N IE H A R R IS • S U S A N O H A R R IS • S U S A N S
H A R R IS • S U Z A N N E C H A R R IS • S U Z E T T E L H A R R IS • S Y B IL L H A R R IS • TAY LO R D H A R R IS • T E R R E L L J H A R R IS • T E R R Y A H A R R IS • T H O M A S L H A R R IS • T O D D A H A R R IS * T O D D A H A R R IS • T O N YA H A R R IS •
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OLYMPIC
CELEBRATING
GAMES
On day five, s till recovering from surgery
falls to Olsson 12-15, 15-6, 17-15.
ing, Schaeffer's g ritty d eterm ination drives her
to help her team w in the gold medal.
The fans at beach volleyball are numerous,
and one o f them is just p lain large. Sporting a
Also at the horse park, Karen and David
straw hat and a yellow and green shirt, 500 lb
O 'C o n no r from the US become the first m ar
(227 kg) Bola Sete, or "Seven Ball," cheers on
ried couple in O lym pic h isto ry to ride to
the Brazilian team. The enthusiastic giant, seen
gether on a m ed al-w in nin g equestrian team.
at various venues th ro u g h o u t the Games, be
The O 'C o n no r tandem finishes second behind
comes an icon, attracting a tte ntio n from fans
Australia's team to take the silver at the con
and athletes alike wherever he goes.
ahead o f a team from New Zealand.
GAMES
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JULY
affer Erichsen, w ho comes in ranked no. 1,
and forced to ice her leg im m ediately after rid
clusion o f the grueling, three-day com petition,
THE
In the late afternoon, in men's artistic gym
nastics in d iv id u a l co m p etitio n, the People's
The Dem ocratic People's
Republic of Korea's Hyon
Kim concentrates on
the ball in her w in over
Germ any's Jie Schopp
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com petition.
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In its second day o f com petition, table te n
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in a surprising upset in
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together in song to support team member
nis is a h o t ticket. A trio o f w om en athletes
Marcos Ondruska. The focused support bolsters
fro m the Dem ocratic People's Republic of
Ondruska's performance, enabling h im to
upset no. 2 seed Goran Ivanisevic o f Croatia,
Korea, none ranked higher than no. 80 in the
w orld, comes w ith in tw o points o f n otch in g
6-2, 6-4, in a center-court m atch before a
three m ajor upsets. Two o f the athletes are able
crowd o f more than 12,000.
In a bizarre occurrence at the football com
to garner surprising w ins as H yon Kim defeats
Germany's Jie Schopp, the world's no. 14
ranked player in the w orld; and Jong-Sil Tu
p etitio n in Birmingham, Alabama, the Tunisian
shocks the Dem ocratic People's Republic of
its urgent request for 40 lb (18 kg) o f cold, u n
and o ther fans cheer at the
Korea's Ji-Hae Ryu, ranked no. 20 in the w orld,
cooked turkey meat. The concerned village chef
indoor volleyball
in tw o sets. In the other contest, the Democra
is surprised to learn that the turkey is n ot to be
top left: Brazil s Bola Sete
com petition.
b o tto m left: M arcos
Ondruska of South Africa
shows his excitem ent
as he defeats no. 2 seed
Belarus perform s on the
The Tunisian players w ill use the turkey meat as
ranked player in the w orld, 17-16, in the de
shock-absorbing shoe liners to protect their feet
ciding games o f her m atch w hen Jing is
from the hard surface o f the Birm ingham field.
Republic o f China's Xiaoshuang Li defeats the
points. This decision infuriates Kim who, de
Russian Federation's Alexei N em ov to become
spite leading at game p o in t, loses 22-20.
China's firs t all-around artistic gymnastics
parallel bars in the men's
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eaten, but w orn inside the competitors' shoes.
leading Jun Hong Jing o f Singapore, the no. 16
Kim is shrieking too lo u d ly after w in n in g
r/g/rf; V ita ly Scherbo of
gym nastics com petition.
tic People's Republic o f Korea's Hyang Kim is
awarded a p o in t because the judges rule that
Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia.
individual artistic
team shocks the Birmingham Village staff w ith
East o f Atlanta, at the m agnificent new
gold m edalist. Li takes the lead and w ins the
Stone M o u n ta in Park Tennis Center, boisterous
and the spectators at the Georgia State U n i
gold w ith his perform ance on the rings appa
South African fans, black and w hite alike, jo in
versity G ym nasium are treated to a spectacu
ratus, scoring a 9.775, w h ile N em ov scores 9.7
C o m p e titio n begins today in b a d m in ton ,
lar men's singles m atch between Jens Olsson
on his flo o r exercise. Li finishes o n ly .049
o f Sweden, ranked no. 20 in the w orld, and
p oints ahead o f Nemov. The defending
unheralded Kenneth Erichsen o f Guatemala.
O lym pic all-around cham pion, V ita ly Scherbo
The tw o com petitors earn a standing ovation
o f Belarus, takes the bronze.
• C R AIG C H A R R IS O N • C Y N T H IA M H A R R IS O N • D A N A E H A R R IS O N • D A N N Y K H A R R IS O N • D E B B IE J H A R R IS O N • D E N N IS R H A R R IS O N ♦ D E R R IC K H A R R IS O N • D EXT E R B H A R R IS O N • E T R A C Y H A R R IS O N •
E U G E N E O H A R R IS O N • FR E D D A P H A R R IS O N • GARY E H A R R IS O N • G R A C E S H A R R IS O N • H A N K D H A R R IS O N • H E L E N M H A R R IS O N • IN A S H A R R IS O N • J C H R IS T O P H E R H A R R IS O N • J M M H A R R IS O N « JA N E
H H A R R IS O N • J A N E T E H A R R IS O N • J A N IC E F H A R R IS O N • JO D I L H A R R IS O N • JO D Y H A R R IS O N • J O E L H A R R IS O N • JO H N A H A R R IS O N « JO S E P H S H A R R IS O N • J O S H U A K H A R R IS O N • JU D Y C H A R R IS O N •
JU S T IN M H A R R IS O N «K A Y C H A R R IS O N • K E V IN B H A R R IS O N • K IM B E R LY R H A R R IS O N • L A U R A G H A R R IS O N • LE E A H A R R IS O N • LE E A H A R R IS O N • M A H A L A H J H A R R IS O N • M A R G A R E T A H A R R IS O N • M AR K
H H A R R IS O N • M ATT S H A R R IS O N • M IC H A E L L H A R R IS O N • N A N C Y J H A R R IS O N • P A TRICIA A H A R R IS O N • P A TRICIA C H A R R IS O N • PA U L D H A R R IS O N • P A U L A K H A R R IS O N • P H IL IP G H A R R IS O N • R E B E C C A
A H A R R IS O N • R IC H A R D G H A R R IS O N • R IT A B H A R R IS O N • R O B E R T A H A R R IS O N • S H A N N O N H A R R IS O N • S H A R O N T H A R R IS O N • S H IR L E Y C H A R R IS O N • S T E P H E N J H A R R IS O N . SU S A N R H A R R IS O N •
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OLYMPIC
GAMES
C ELEB RA TING
THE
GAMES
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O l y m p ic A r ts F e s t iv a l
In te rn atio na l opera star Jessye N orm an and the
Atlanta Sym phony Orchestra collaborate in a
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performance th a t is also a deeply fe lt hom e
Olym pic Youth Camp
com ing. The legendary Jessye N orm an, a na
participants enjoy a
m u ltitu d e of experiences:
tive o f Augusta, Georgia, has received universal
(left) joining in a discussion
acclaim fo r her performances in every interna
at the cam p, (top right)
tio n a l cultural capital. The Atlanta Sym phony
visiting w ith athletes
Orchestra, a fast-rising star in its h ig h ly com
at th e A tlan ta Olym pic
petitive dom ain, has captivated its hom etow n
Village, and (bottom right)
participating in a parade.
audience and garnered significant acclaim
Berry College in Rome,
Georgia, Is a beautiful tree-
m -
filled setting for the
i
O lym pic Youth Camp.
O lym pic Committees. Activities range from
team -building exercises and special projects de
signed to im prove intercultu ra l understanding
and cooperation, to a wide range o f arts and
com m unications projects.
The fast-paced, stim ulatin g schedule o f this
two-week program is packed w ith activity.
Camp days start early and ru n late in to the
nig h t. Each day is fille d w ith a wide variety of
memorable and often challenging experiences.
Campers participate in m ou nta in b iking, h ik
ing, obstacle courses, and wilderness study; de
sign and create a newspaper, the Centennial,
and television programs; and perform a series
o f particip a tory music and dance recitals.
These performances enable talented young
people to share the artistic and cultural expres
sions o f th e ir homelands w ith fe llo w campers.
Friendships between campers fo rm q u ic k ly
and ru n deep. Supported b y a carefully cho
sen staff, a large num ber o f w h o m are v o lu n
teers, Atlanta's O lym p ic Youth Camp em bod
ies, extends, and reinforces the O lym p ic S pirit
O l y m p ic Y o u t h C a m p
headquartered on the campus o f Berry College,
th a t also brings together the w orld's greatest
located in the fo o th ills o f the Appalachian
athletes and fans.
m ountains 65 m i (105 km) northw est o f A t
This busy day o f co m p etitio n is an ideal tim e
for the 458 young people, ages 16-18, attend
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lanta in Rome, Georgia.
Established by the IOC at the 1912 Stock
ing the 1996 O lym pic Youth Camp to come to
h o lm Games, the O lym pic Youth Camp p ro
A tlanta to experience some o f the excitem ent
vides a w onderful o p p o rtu n ity fo r cu ltural ex
firsthand. This talented and c u ltu ra lly diverse
change among the young people w ho have
group o f young m en and wom en, representing
been selected to attend this unique in te rn a
152 particip a ting O lym pic delegations, are
tio n a l gathering by th e ir respective N ational
H H A R R IS O N JR • LEE H A R R IS O N JR • GREG ORY L H A R R IS O N SAT • S C O T T H A R R IS S • T H E R E S A M H A R R O N • M O N IC A H A R R O W « J O H N A H A R S C H •
L H A R T • C H A R L E S E H A R T • C H R IS T O P H E R B H A R T • C IN D ! L H A R T • C U R T IS D H A R T • D E A S H A Y H A R T • D IA N A O H A R T • D O N A L D H A RT • EDW ARD T H A R T • E L IZ A B E T H A H A R T •
C H A R T • J A N IC E M H A R T • JO H N H A R T • KEN H A R T • K E N N E T H S H A R T • K R IS T IN L H A R T • M A R Y A N N H A R T • M E L IN D A D H A R T • M IC A H H A R T • M IL D R E D C H A R T • N A N C Y E H A R T •
H E 1996 O ly m p ic
Yo u t h C a m p
Pre^
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N A T A S H A S H A R T • P E T E R B H A R T • P R IS C IL L A A H A R T • R E B E C C A S H A R T • R E N E E P H A R T • R IC H A R D L H A R T • R IC H A R D T H A R T • R O B E R T 8 H A R T • R O N A L D H A R T • R O N A L D H A R T • R O S A M H A R T •
SA N D R A 8 H A R T * S T E V E N G H A R T * SU S A N H A R T * S U Z Z A N N E P H A R T • T IM O T H Y A H A R T • TR A C Y A H A R T • T R E V O R A H A R T • T E R R E N C E S H A R T E • C A R O L P H A R T E R • N IC H O L E A H A R T F IE L D * D O N A L D E
H A RTIG « T IF F A N Y L H A R T IN G • S H A R O N L H A R T IS • W IL L IA M D H A R T IS * PA U LJ H A R T L * J O H N R H A R T L A N D * A N D R E W P H A R T L EY • A N T H O N Y A H A R T L E Y • B R A N D O N W H A R T L EY • C O N N IE R H A R T L E Y •
CELEB RA TING
ATLANTA
1996
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C E N T E N N I A L
OLYMPIC
THE
GAMES
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24
JULY
GAMES
A tlanta Sym phony Orchestra. Maestro Levi
conducts w ith supple finesse, c o lo rfu l detail,
'
and exceptional responsiveness. Miss N o r
man's delivery is a to u r de force achieved n o t
th ro ug h volum e, b u t th ro u g h a tte n tio n to de
ta il and exquisite subtlety, w arm th, and sp iri
tuality.
The second h a lf o f the concert focuses on
operatic repertoire. Aria after aria, each seem
in g ly more beautiful than the preceding one,
weave a web o f vocal magic. The audience re
sponds to each piece w ith cheers and bravos.
left: Jessye Norm an
rehearses for her
from natio na l and in te rn a tio n a l critics, espe
cially in recent years under the baton o f music
director Yoel Levi. Bringing these charism atic
visitors w ho come to Atlanta h o p in g to dis
the boundaries o f curiosity, creativity, and
m usical forces together was a top p rio rity from
cover its roots as a center o f African-Am erican
physical possibility. Pilobolus creates and per
the earliest days o f p la n n in g fo r the O lym pic
ideology and culture. W ith paintings and
form s works th a t appeal to the diverse and
Arts Festival. A celebration o f O lym pic excel
sculptures th a t visua lly chronicle a critica l pe
eclectic tastes o f its audiences, in clu d in g the
Christina, from the
lence, this memorable collaboration resonates
rio d o f the African-Am erican struggle fo r id e n
intensely acrobatic solo, Pseudopodia (1974),
exhibition From Rearguard
w ith special significance fo r the c ity o f Atlanta
tity , the e x h ib itio n appeals on h istorical and
the hilarious Walklyndon (1971), the p o litica l
and the state o f Georgia.
p o litic a l, as w e ll as aesthetic and artistic, lev
satire. Pyramid o f the Moon (1995), and a w ork
els. Visitors pause before b rillia n tly colorful,
th a t explores the deeply em otional side o f the
p rim itiv e , and radically abstract works, ab
hum an co n d itio n . Sweet Purgatory (1991). In
collaborative perform ance
w ith th e A tlan ta Sym phony
Orchestra.
right: Richmond Barthé's
to Vanguard, shows the
influence of prim itivism
as w ell as abstract
expressionism.
Filled to capacity, Atlanta Sym phony H all is
buzzing w ith anticipa tion . This O lym pic audi
ence is a m ix o f knowledgeable connoisseurs
the ovations grow ing louder and longer as the
sorbing the im pact o f a tra d itio n o f art th a t
today's production, each piece and every
and enthusiastic families, w ith those from dis
evening builds to its clim ax. A t the end o f the
developed largely outside o f the establish
dancer's performance crackles w ith a pure en
ta n t lands sittin g next to those from Atlanta
program, Miss N orm an leaves the stage o n ly to
m ent. W h ile some are u n fa m ilia r w ith the
ergy. The taut focus, flawless execution, and
and its surrounding com m unities.
be cheered back fo r five curtain calls. Her
m ore experim ental styles, the co lle ction u lt i
kaleidoscopic range o f colors, m otions, and
physical form s are v iv id and entrancing. The
choice o f encore repertoire is pure A m eri
m ately bears witness to the co ntribu tion s
vocal works by M aurice Ravel. The Atlanta
cana— a set o f tra d itio n a l spirituals th a t brings
African-Am erican art has made to the develop
energy exchanged between the audience and
S ym phony Orchestra perform s w ith technical
tears to everyone's eyes, musicians included.
ing art w orld.
the stage is palpable.
precision and enthusiasm. A breathless audi
This draws the concert to a conclusion th a t is
The program opens w ith orchestral and
ence awaits the arrival o f Jessye N orm an, w ho
strides o n to the stage, a v isio n o f d ig n ity and
b o th reverent and joyful.
An im p o rta n t part o f the O lym pic Arts Fes
le ft a n d right: The highly
acclaim ed collective,
Pilobolus Dance Theater
celebrates its 25**'
anniversary season
w ith perform ances at the
M artin Luther King Jr.
International Chapel at
M orehouse College.
Am ong the most exciting and im p o rta n t
contem porary dance companies, the Pilobolus
Dance Theater has been a crucible o f choreo
beauty th a t evokes an in sta n t and len gthy
tiv a l is From Rearguard to Vanguard: Selections
graphic in n o v a tio n for the past 25 years. Pi-
o vation. Miss N orm an then focuses on her
from the Clark Atlanta University Collection o f
lobolus's choreographic vocabulary stretches
repertoire and her collaboration w ith the
African-American Art, a collection o f works the
u n ive rsity purchased and gathered between
1942 and 1970. It p articula rly attracts Games
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H A R T L E Y • P R IS C IL L A W H A R T L E Y • SE LW Y N T H A R T L E Y • T H O M A S B H A R T L E Y • R O B E R T L H A R T L IN E • D A V ID J H A R T M A N • R IC H A R D D H A R T M A N • D E B O R A H A H A R T M A N N • E IL E E N M H A R T M A N N ♦
E S T E L L E M H A R T M A N N • G E R R Y A H A R T M A N N • H E N R Y J H A R T M A N N • P H Y L L IS K H A R T M A N N • M A R S H A W H A R T N E S S • J IL L H A R T N E T T • PATRICK L H A R T N E Y • JA M E S R H A R T O N • T H O M A S B H A R T O N III •
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HE SHEER M A G N IT U D E and c o m p le xity
p e titio n venues provides logistical and fu n c
o f the C entennial O lym p ic Games s ig n ifi
tio n a l support fo r the Games as a whole. To
T o d a y ’s
C alendar
ca n tly exceeds th a t o f any p rio r O lym piad.
staff all these venues, more th an 130,000 peo
Even the most cursory review o f the operational
ple m ust be managed, uniform ed, fed, and
and logistical statistics proves that, as had been
supported. A Games-wide security team o f
predicted and promised by AGOG from the ear
nearly 17,000 interna tion al, federal, state, and
liest days o f its Bid to host the Games, this is
local personnel works together according to a
the largest peacetime event in history.
carefully orchestrated netw ork o f in te rlo ckin g
B oxing
jurisdictions. An enormous armada o f vehicles
C y c lin g — track
w ith in networks o f the various operations and
is organized in to a netw ork o f transportation
Fencing
programs th a t make the Games o f the X X V I
systems th a t operates 24 hours per day.
Fo otba ll
Organizing this endeavor involves networks
O lym piad possible. The netw ork o f 31 compe
O lym p ic Villages serving athletes in
Com petition
A q u a tic s — s w im m in g
B ad m in to n
Baseball
B asketball
G ym n a s tic s — a rtis tic
H andball
titio n venues th a t service hundreds o f th o u
Savannah and Columbus, Georgia; B irm in g
sands o f O lym pic ticket holders each day sup
ham, Alabama; M ia m i and Orlando, Florida;
Hockey
ports h ig h ly specialized athletic missions and
and W ashington, DC, each require th e ir own
Jud o
operational functions at each location. The
support and operational procedures. The In te r
netw ork o f more th a n 175 a dd itio na l noncom -
natio na l Broadcast Center and M ain Press Cen-
R ow ing
S h o o tin g
S oftb all
Table te n n is
Tennis
O lym pic A rts Festival
A llia n c e T h e a tre C om pany:
B lues fo r an A la b a m a S ky
and The Last N ig h t o f
B a lly h o o
C enter fo r P upp etry A rts: The
H u n g ry T ig e r a n d O th e r
m
Tales fro m C hina and
Franke nstein
P ilo b o lu s Dance T heatre
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Russian N a tio n a l O rchestra
Seven Stages: B lue M o n k
S o u th e rn C rossroads Festival
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security guards a t th e entrance to th e Georgia
International Horse Park.
J E N N IF E R E H A R V E Y • J O H N S H A R V E Y • J O H N S H A R V E Y • K R IS P Y C H A R V E Y • K R IS T Y V H A R V E Y • L E C IA L H A R V E Y • L1N D R A M H A R V E Y • M A R IL Y N 6 H A R V E Y • M A R T H A C H A R V E Y • M AR Y G H A R V E Y •
M IC H A E L L H A R V E Y • N EK O D H A R V E Y • PA M ELA C H A R V E Y • T H O M A S G H A R V EY • T R A C E Y C H A R V E Y • TR A C Y U H A R V EY • W IL L IA M 8 H A R V E Y • C H E R Y L D H A R V E Y -R O S E • G IL B E R T A H A R V IL L • T E R R I L
H A R V IL L E • K A R E N M H A R W A R D • H IL L A R Y O H A R W E L L • JE A N C H A R W E L L • H A YD EE C H A R W O O D • PA M ELA L H A R W O O D • A Q U E E L R H A S A N • H A K IM H A S A N • L E R O N D A H A S A N • T A L IA H M H A S A N •
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ter feed televised coverage, news, and in fo rm a
CELEBRATING
tio n th ro u g h o u t the w orld 24 hours daily. An
The com m unications systems designed for
Atlanta's Games em ploy the m ost advanced
O lym pic Arts Festival netw ork o f more th an 40
technology and are the m ost interconnected
venues and public art sites is coordinated
ever developed fo r or used durin g an O lym pic
th ro ug h its ow n com m and center. C entennial
Games. This Games com m unications system,
O lym pic Park meets the requirements o f more
composed o f v irtu a lly every available com m u
th an 250,000 people per day, 1,000 performers,
nications p latform , is the end product o f a
and the 5 O lym pic sponsors whose pavilions
lie w ith in the park.
m ultiyea r effort among ACOG's technology
W hile these are o n ly some o f the m any ele
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sponsors. This system is supported by 20,000
ments th a t make the Games possible, the m an
telephones, 12,000 radios, 10,000 television
sets, 7,700 pagers, 7,000 personal computers,
agement o f any one o f them is an O lym pic
1,200 cellular phones, 700 facsimile machines,
top; A tlanta O lym pic
Broadcasting staff uses
advanced com m unications
systems to televise
the Games.
O lym pic Fam ily members w ith athlete biogra
b ottom : An ath lete sends
phies, Games-related data, and other back
E-mail using lnfo'96 at
ground and operations-related in fo rm a tio n .
one of the many kiosks
A lth ou g h ln fo '9 6 in itia lly suffers from some
located in th e A tlanta
Olym pic Village.
problems, it supports over 350,000 E-mail ses
sions and more th an 30 m illio n in fo rm a tio n
jy
retrieval requests durin g the Games. More than
15,000 unique results reports, consisting of
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over 40 m illio n pages o f in fo rm a tio n , are pro
duced on an average o f less th an 10 m inutes
each durin g the Games.
700 copiers, and an array o f specialized elec
ACOG's W orld W ide Web site, the first-ever
tro n ic support and security equipm ent. In all,
O lym pic In te rn et presence, provides interested
more th a n 2 m illio n ft (610 km ) o f fiber-optic
people th ro u g h o u t the w o rld w ith detailed in
cable and 5 m illio n ft (1,524 km ) o f copper
fo rm a tio n about every aspect o f the Games.
pairs (standard telephone lines) are installed,
W h ile it is active, ACOG's W orld W ide Web
along w ith an add itio na l 15,000 telephone
site receives more th an 200 m illio n hits at a
lines and an unprecedented 673 video circuits
rate th a t accelerates durin g the Games. On
left: Press m em bers w ork in
challenge. ACOG's challenge is to incorporate
to support this system. D uring the Games,
1 August alone, 16,955,274 hits are recorded.
th e com m unications
these d istin ct, disparate, and often geographi
ACOG's sw itchboard handles an average o f
Clearly, the rapid e volutio n o f the In te rn et as
cally scattered elements in to a single, cohesive
operation. In keeping w ith one o f ACOG's cen
7,000 calls each day, w h ic h is more th a n 900
per operator per shift.
a m edium o f in fo rm a tio n exchange is an e xcit
netw ork area inside the
M ain Press Center.
r/g/if. The accreditation
center a t th e Airport
W elcom e Center is a central
area of activity for incom ing
contractors and Olym pic
tral symbols, this essential Games infrastruc
ture is a "patchw ork q u ilt" o f com m unications
vided by In fo '9 6, a proprietary in fo rm a tio n
systems.
system w h ic h supplies athletes, officials, the
A d d itio n a l com m unications support is p ro
ing new developm ent th a t w ill become an es
sential feature o f all future Games.
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V IR G IN IA A H A S K E L L • H A R M O N Y E H A S K IN S • B E N N Y G H A S L E T T • S T E V E N R H A S L E T T • A D E E H A S S A N • B IN N IE M H A S S A N • N IT A H A S S A N • R O B E R T P H A S S E • U R S U L A A H A S S E L • M A R G A R E T M
H A S S E L L • S H A IL A P H A S S E L L E • A A R O N M H A S S E N B O E H L E R • D O R IS E H A S S E N G E R • K A R IN D H A S S E N G E R • S T E V E N D H A S S E N G E R • R O B E R T J H A S S E R • S A N D R A E H A S S E R • S Y LV IA W H A S S E T T •
M Ü H A M M E D J H A S S IM « JA C K P. M A S S IN G E R • N O R M A W H A S S IN G E R • L M A R T IN H A S S O N • J IL L M H A S T IE • R O B E R T T H A S T IE • S E B E K H A S T IN G S • H A Z E L H A S T IN G S • M A U R E E N P H A S T IN G S • G IL B E R T C
H A S T IN G S III • JIM W H A S T Y • B E R T H A P H A S W E L L • A R T H U R A H A S Z A R D • M IYA KO H AT AN O • T A K A F U M I H AT AN O • E L IZ A B E T H A H A T C H • E L IZ A B E T H S H ATC H • J O I C H A T C H « J O S E P H H ATC H • K IM B E R LY A
H A T C H • L IS A A H A T C H • M E R E D IT H C H A T C H • M A T T H E W G H A T C H E U L • D E N N IS M H A T C H E R • P A M E L A L H A T C H E R • S U S A N V H A T C H E R • G E O R G IA M H A T C H E T T • A N N E -L O U IS E D H A T F IE L D •
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Kirsten Vlieghuis o f the Netherlands, w ho take
silver and bronze, respectively. The torch
passes from four-tim e O lym pic medal w inn er
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swimmers, w om en and m en alike, as she be
comes the firs t sw im m er in O ly m p ic h is to ry
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her business at home, a pizzeria, w h ich is
caiied the Mouse Hole.
to w in a to ta l o f five in d iv id u a l gold medals.
The wom en's artistic gymnastics events
Evans to Bennett and the next generation o f
young Olym pians.
Egerszegi firs t emerged at the 1988 O lym p ic
have m oved in to the in d iv id u a l rounds. Late
Games in Seoul, where she w on the 200 m
th is afternoon, Ukraine's Liiia Podkopayeva,
In the men's co m p etitio n, Gary H all Jr. of
backstroke despite the fact th a t she weighed
the reigning w o rld cham pion, captures the
fhe US, whose father is a three-tim e O lym pian
40 lb (18 kg) less th a n any o the r fin a lis t in
gold in the in d iv id u a l all-around by a m argin
swimmer, is beaten for the second tim e in
her event. Her d im in u tiv e size and q uiet and
o f .18 over Romania's Gina Gogean. Simona
these Games by Aleksander Popov o f the Russ
elusive nature, coupled w ith the firs t part o f
Am anar and Lavinia M ilosovici, also o f Roma
ian Federation, w ho finishes ahead o f H all in
her name, "Eger," w h ic h means mouse in
nia, share the bronze medal.
the fra n tic sp rint fo r fhe 50 m freestyle title .
H ungarian, have resulted in her nicknam e,
O n ly .13 second separates the tw o swimmers.
"M ouse." She has incorporated the name in to
A t the Georgia Dome, an audience of
31,230—the highest attendance in women's
Lilia Podkopayeva performs
for gold in the w om en's
individual all-around artistic
left: US s w im m er Brooke
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o m p e t it io n
Bennett posts th e fastest
tim e in the w orld this year
w h ile w inn ing the gold in
the w om en's 800 m freestyle.
In each O lym pic Games, there are events in
w h ich past heroes and favorites, despite th e ir
best efforts, fail to meet the hopes and expec
right: Janet Evans leaves
the pool after the w om en's
800 m freestyle event.
tations o f b o th the athlete and audience. At
the same tim e, among the m ost exciting as
pects o f each O iym pic Games is the emergence
o f fresh new faces, b rig h t young stars th a t ap
pear from obscurify to receive O iym pic acco
lades and capture the hearts o f fans th ro u g h
out the w orld.
Veteran and perennial favorite US swimm er
Janet Evans, w ho passed the O lym pic torch to
M uham m ad A ii at the clim ax o f the Opening
Ceremony a few days ago, needs eight injec
tions o f novocaine to num b her broken toe in
order to compete in the grueling 800 m
In another dram atic fin is h , K risztina Eger-
freestyle, fin is h in g a d isappointing sixth in her
szegi o f H ungary becomes o n ly the second
fin a l effort to w in a medal in Atlanta's Games.
sw im m er to w in the same event at three d if
In a th rillin g finish, however, Evans's feammate,
ferent O ly m p ic Games w hen she captures
16-year-oid Brooke Bennett, posts the fastest
gold in the 200 m backstroke. Her A tla nta
tim e in the w orid th is year w h ile w in n in g a
w in , however, sets her apart fro m a ii other
gold ahead o f Dagmar Hase o f Germ any and
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* ^ E lp A N IE J H AT LE Y .D A V ID L H A T M A K E R . KA T H R Y N M H A T T
C H R IS T IA N L H A U C K • L O R E S M H A U C K • K A W E H I C H A U G • C H A R L E S H A U G A B R O O K • K J E T IL H A U G A N • D E B R A A H A U G E • C H A R L O T T E H A U G E N • M IC H A E L W H A U G E N • T IM O T H Y J H A U G E N •
J O H N F H A Ü G H • M A U R E E N P H A U G H T O N • R H E A M H A U G S E T H • R A N D A L L G H A U K « B E T S Y A H A U N • D IC K D H A U N • M IC H A E L G REG H A U N • R O B E R T J H A U P T • K E V IN G H A U S C H IL D T • JO S E P H S H A U S F E L D
• G AYLE W H A U S H E R R • J O H N M H A U S H E R R • J U D IT H P H A U S M A N N • J U R G E N K H A U S M A N N • M IC H A E L J H A U S M A N N • B E R T R A N D H A U S S • G L O R IA J H A U S S E R » S A N D R A K H A V E N S • S T E V E N J H AVE R •
M A R Y J O H A V E R B E C K • E L IC E D H A V E R T Y • M IC H A E L T H A V IG • S H IR L E Y G H A V L A K • J U L IA H H A V R O N • A L L IS O N H A W E S • E L L E N C H A W E S • L IS A D H A W E S « A N T H O N Y M H A W K • B O B B IE J H A W K •
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employed by most other cyclists. Andrea
o f the nearly 500,000 personalized engraved
C oIIinelli, w ho set a w orld record in an in d iv id
bricks sold for Centennial O lym pic Park, in
ual pursuit heat yesterday, goes on to w in the
scribing it w ith the message, "Sally Boyle,
gold medal today w hile his teammate, An-
M arry Me?” The answer? A resounding yes!
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tonella Bellutti, sets an O lym pic record in the
women's pursuit, despite a misstep at the start
O
l y m p ic
A
rts
F e s t iv a l
o f her race th a t cost her a couple o f seconds.
American sabre fencer M ichael D'Asaro, w ho
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The largest audience in
w om en's O lym pic basketball
history w atches as Yelena
Formed in the afterm ath o f the collapse of
accompanies his team today as an alternate,
com m unism , the Russian N ational Orchestra
had a special incentive to make the US team.
has quickly emerged as an in s titu tio n o f u n
Long before he was named as an alternate to
com prom ising artistic quality, visceral energy,
the men's sabre team, D'Asaro purchased one
and polish. This extraordinary ensemble was
founded by gifted pianist and conductor
Italy's Andrea CoIIinelli
M ik h a il Pletnev, w ho w on the coveted
celebrates w inn ing the
gold in th e men's
Tchaikovsky co m p etitio n in 1978, at the
Pshikova of th e Russian
individual pursuit.
height o f the C old War. Pletnev's courageous
Federation (right) gets to the
jum p ball before Catarina
decision to pursue a dual career as pianist and
Pollini of Italy (left).
conductor, coupled w ith his desire to create a
new orchestra, was bold and visionary. From
the m om ent o f its auspicious 1991 debut, the
Russian N ational Orchestra has been recog
nized as one o f the world's most exciting or
chestral ensembles, its early recordings have
been acclaimed by critics as "d e fin itive ," and
IT
its at-home and to u r performances are always
sold out.
The near-capacity audience that fills Atlanta
Sym phony H all this evening to hear the or
M
chestra's first Atlanta performance is in fo r an
extraordinary experience. The works Maestro
Pletnev has chosen for this evening's perfor
mance—Tchaikovsky's Fifth Sym phony and
Ravel's virtuoso arrangement o f Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition—are both fam iliar and
popular pillars o f orchestral repertoire.
O lym pic baslcetball iiis to ry — watches the Russ
As the cycling co m petition moves in to the
From the somber, m editative clarinet solo
ian Federation defeat Italy, 75-70, in the first
track cycling rounds, the Italian team provides
th a t opens Tchaikovsky's Fifth Sym phony on
o f tw o games held today. In the second game,
an interesting story. Em ploying the so-called
ward, Pletnev shapes an inexorable and deeply
the US defeats Zaire, the first A frican wom en's
"superm an" rid in g position, in w hich riders ex
basketball squad to compete in the O lym pic
tend th eir arms forward on specially designed
Games, by a lopsided score o f 107-47. Jennifer
handlebars, the Italian team has dom inated the
Azzi leads the US w ith 18 points.
opening days o f track racing. This innovative
rid in g position is proven to be aerodynamically
superior to the more conventional rid in g style
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C A R O L Y N H A W K IN S • C H R IS T IN A F H A W K IN S • C R IS T A L H A W K IN S • D A N A M H A W K IN S • D A R R E L L G H A W K IN S • D O N A L D E H A W K IN S • F R A N K W H A W K IN S • H O P E J H A W K IN S • J A C K IE H A W K IN S • JA Y N E
H A W K IN S • J E A N W H A W K IN S • J E N N IF E R D H A W K IN S • JO N A T H A N E H A W K IN S • K E LL Y G H A W K IN S • K E N H A W K IN S • L Y N D A H H A W K IN S • P A U L A H A W K IN S • R O B E R T B H A W K IN S • S A R A K H A W K IN S •
S H A R O N E H A W K IN S • S U S IE H A W K IN S • T R A C IE L H A W K IN S • V A N E S S A S H A W K IN S • W E N D E L L E H A W K IN S • W IL L IA M B H A W K IN S • C A R O LY N H A W K IN S -B R O W N • M O R R IS H A W K IN S JR PH D • JU D Y 8 H AW KS
• KA R E N B H A W LE Y • A N D R E W 8 H A W T H O R N • G R A C E G H A W T H O R N E • N A T A S H A H A W T H O R N E • D AVID W H A X T O N • D AVID K HAY «J A M IE HAY « J A N IC E M HAY • LE W IS H HAY • L IN D A I HAY • W IL L IA M M HAY •
KA R E N J H A Y A S H I H A R R IS • YA SSE R K HAY AT • M IC H A E L W H A Y C O C K • T H E R E S A L H AY C O C K • D AVID V H AYD E N • G A IL P H AYD E N • KE RR Y J H AYD E N • P A T R IC IA W H A Y D E N • J A M E S S H AYD O N «JA M E S E HAVE
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Kiev." A t the very m om ent w hen it seems that
it cannot possibly clim b the next em otional
peak, the orchestra reaches an entirely new
level o f sonic richness th a t is sustained
through the clim actic conclusion o f this work.
As the last chord sounds, audience members
rise to th e ir feet. For nearly 10 minutes, they
clap rh y th m ic a lly and in unison, dem anding
more. Their hopes are answered w ith several
b rillia n t encores.
In pledging to b ring distinguished artists of
the w orld to Atlanta, the C ultural Olym piad
The Russian National
O rchestra perform s at the
th e A tlanta Sym phony Hall
under the expert direction of
M ikhail Pletnev.
personal musical statement th a t is d is tin ctly
p u llin g the audience in to the em otional re
the bar one n otch higher, to press fo r a perfect
made a com m itm ent to enrich the experience
Puppeteer Feng Yang
Russian. This approach is u n fa m ilia r to Am eri
cesses and Russian origins o f these majestic
10 after achieving a 9.98. These occasions are
o f local audiences. In the spirit o f b ringing the
prepares to perform The
can ears; b ut this is a Russian orchestra, an en
works. This is an O lym pic concert, and the au
all too rare, and yet th a t is the challenge the
best o f the w orld together, the Russian National
semble th a t welcomes and even celebrates the
v irtu o s ity o f its members. From beginning to
dience is ecstatic, voicing its approval in a deaf
Russian N ational Orchestra faces as the second
h a lf o f th is concert begins.
Orchestra's performance on this special evening
end, this p ow erfu lly com m unicative and in
clapping one usually hears at athletic events,
ening roar accompanied by the loud rh y th m ic
Pictures at an Exhibition is a kin d o f concerto
tensely cohesive performance intertw ines pas
o n ly infre qu en tly at the conclusion o f a great
fo r orchestra, a showcase w ork in w h ich the
sion w ith virtuosity. Pletnev's d istinctive ap
proach creates a sense o f centrifugal e volution
concert, and never at the end o f its first half.
entire orchestra, b o th in d iv id u a lly and collec
H ow can the Russian N ational Orchestra
tively, gets to show its best. Pletnev knows his
th a t builds th ro u g h o u t each performance.
meet, let alone exceed, the expectations o f this
players and the strengths and special abilities
enthusiastic audience in the second half? The
each possesses, and he plays to them , b u ild in g
sign o f a true cham pion— indeed, an O lym pian
tow ard the grand finale, "The Great Gate of
H ungry Tiger a n d o th e r Tales
from China at the
Center for Puppetry Arts.
demonstrates how cultural exchange, whether
through the arts or in sport, can bridge the d if
ferences between people th ro ug h ou t the world.
— is the a b ility to go one more round, to raise
Atlanta 19%
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D A N IE L A H AYES • D A N IE L J H AYES • D E B O R A H W H AYE S • D O N N A M H AYE S • E R N A H AYES • EV ELYN J H AYES • F E L E C IA S H AYES • H E A T H E R C H AYES • H E A T H E R R H AYES • J A N E D H AYES • J A N IC E W H AYE S •
J E F F R E Y S H AYES • J U A N IT A C H AYES • K A N D IC E L E E H AYES • K A R IN L H AYES • K A T H L E E N M H AYES • KA T H R YN H H AYE S • K E V IN C H AYE S • L IS A V H AYES ■ LO R ETTA J H AYE S • LO Y A H AYES • M A U R IC E E H AYES
• M IC H A E L K H AYE S • P A R R IS H KA T H R Y N H AYE S • R E B E C C A L H AYES • R IC H A R D D H AYE S • R O B E R T O H AYE S • R O G E R D H AYE S • R O N A L D V H AYES • S A R A H C H AYE S • S C A R L E T D H AYE S • S T E P H A N IE A
H AYES • S U E H AYES • V IC K IE L H AYES • W A R R E N E D W A R D H AYE S « JA M E S W H AYES JR • JO N P H A Y G O O D ♦ K A R A J H AYG O O D • L IS A P H AYG O O D • A N N E N H AYM AK ER • A N N E T T E B H AYM AN • LA R R Y W H AYM AN
• T E R R A N C E H A Y M A N • L E S T E R L H A Y M A N JR • T A M R A J H A Y M A N S -8 E N E D IC T • M AR Y A N N A H AYM O N « C H R IS T IN E M H AY N E R • A R R O N H A Y N E S • C A R O LY N P H A Y N E S • C H U C K E H A Y N E S • D AVID C H A Y N E S •
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A skilled team o f 35 producers has been
mesmerized by the athletic feats these
Games have inspired and the atmosphere o f cel
recruited to design and direct d istin ct b ut com
ebration and camaraderie th a t surrounds them.
tio n values w h ile corresponding to each
C on trib u ting to the spectators' experience at
venue's special atmosphere and operating re
O lym pic venues is ACOG's comprehensive
venue production program th a t is coordinated
quirements. The team directs a m ultilayered
w ith the overall Look o f the Games. Atlanta has
and live entertainm ent components. Producers
carefully crafted this effort in to a well-orches
m ay choose to create th e ir customized venue
Boxing
trated program o f sights and sounds. From a
vast collection o f m any kinds o f music to an
programs using a 32-hour library o f music and
Canoe/kayak— slalom
effects, five special compact discs produced for
Cycling—track
array o f specially produced videos, entertaining
Atlanta's Games, more than 200 specially pro
Equestrian
and inform a tion al scoreboard displays, an
duced videos that illustrate the rules and great
Handball
plem entary programs th a t m axim ize produc
Com petition
Aquatics—diving, sw im m ing,
water polo
Athletics
schedule fille d w ith a variety o f audio, visual,
Badminton
nouncements, and live entertainm ent, every as
pect o f each com petition venue's production
performances from past Games for each athletic
! discipline, and live performance elements that
needs has been designed to support and enliven
the environm ent o f the Games.
j can be scheduled for pregame and half-tim e
I
entertainm ent. In addition to program m ing
Basketball
Hockey
Judo
Rowing
Shooting
Softball
Table tennis
Tennis
Volleyball— beach, indoor
W eightlifting
Yachting
Olym pic Arts Festival
Blues for and Alabama
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Sky and The Last N ig h t o f
C e n t e n n i a l O lv m p ic games
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Ballyhoo
Game
with Jessye Norman
Hungry Tiger and Other
Tales from China and
Frankenstein
Phoenix Dance Company
Seven Stages: Blue M onk
14**' Street Playhouse: A ll
Entertaining, inform ative scoreboards at venues
enliven the com petition environm ent.
D E B O R A H C H A Y N E S - G E O R G E E H A Y N E S . J I L L K H A Y N E S • P A T R IC IA P H A Y N E S • PA T R IC IA S M IT H H A Y N E S • P O W E L L J H A Y N E S - R A L P H L H A Y N E S • R A N D A L L S H A N E H A Y N E S • S T E V E N E H A Y N E S • W E N D Y
A H A Y N E S • W IL L IA M B H A Y N E S • W IL L IA M J H A Y N E S C ATC • A L L A N M H A Y N IE • T IN A J H A Y N IE P M • YVAN H AYO Z - F R A N K J HAYS • F R A N K L IN A HAYS • K E N N E T H HAYS • L A U R IE A H AYS • P R E S T O N A HAYS •
R IC H A R D O HAYS ♦ S H E R R Y A H AYS • W IL L IA M HAYS - D O N N A R HAYS ATC - K E N N Y R H A Y S LE T T • L O R R A IN E S H A Y S L IP • J O A N N E H AYW AR D • P A U L R H AYW AR D • A M Y L H AYW O O D • C H A R L E S L H AYW O O D
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music, video, and supplem entary perfor
to com plem ent the m ood o f the m om ent, keep
mances, producers are also responsible fo r all
the m ood upbeat, and enhance every specta
announcements, in c lu d in g the names o f a th
tor's experience at every O lym pic event.
letes and officials, penalties, and other essen
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In every host city, certain songs catch on
tia l in fo rm a tio n th a t relates to the fie ld of
w ith the fans and athletes and become an inte
play. An English-speaking and a French-speak
gral part o f the Games. In Atlanta, The Village
ing announcer are assigned to each venue at
People's "Y M C A "— a 1970s standard and
every com petition. Providing play-by-play
perennial favorite o f Am erican sports fans—
com m entary and ensuring th a t the correct a th
becomes one o f the m ost enjoyed tunes at
lete is announced at the rig h t tim e for every
Atlanta's Games. C ertain songs are played tim e
event is critical to the successful operation o f
and again th ro u g h o u t the Games. Sometimes
the com petitions.
in the m ost unexpected circumstances; songs
top: Brazilian fans inspire
th e ir country's athletes w ith
hearty cheers.
b o tto m : Japanese spectators
encourage th e ir tea m at
a judo event.
m
Spectators actively
d em onstrate their
enthusiasm for com petition
by joining to g e th e r to
participate in songs.
to exhilarate the crowd are sung and danced
game between Australia and Canada w hile one
gymnastics gala a few days later, having fin
to w ith increasing gusto b y b o th athletes and
of Canada's relief pitchers takes her warm -up
ished th e ir form al program, the American
d aunting task. In the case o f a rain delay or an
spectators. From US basketball player Charles
tosses, the Australian team w ill line up in fro n t
w om en w ill break in to an im p ro m p tu tu m b lin g
emergency tim e-out, the producer m ust re
Barkley leading fans in spelling out the letters
of its dugout and dance to a song as it blares
routine w h ile leading the capacity audience in
spond q u ickly by entertaining the audience
C om bin ing these program elements to fit
the atmosphere o f each sport and venue is a
o f a song at a basketball game to the grow ing
over the loudspeakers. Energized, the Aus
a h ig h ly anim ated version o f a popular song.
w ith music, a special video, or even an im
p o p u la rity o f music at w e ig h tliftin g and hand
tralian team w ill go on to w in this im p o rta n t
The venues are fille d w ith a cheerful, festive at
p ro m p tu live performance. The overall plan is
ball venues, songs are heard alm ost every
game, 5-2. A t the conclusion o f the special
mosphere th a t reflects and reinforces the sp irit
where. Tomorrow, during a women's softball
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• G E N E T H A Y W O O D • G E O R G IA L H A Y W O O D • L Ü A N N G H A Y W O O D • R O M A Y N E E H A Y W O O D • W A N D A E H A Y W O O D • 8R V A N T H A Z A R D • A D R IE N N E F H A Z E L • R IC H A R D C H A Z E L T IN E « JA C K 8 H A 2 E N • PEGGY
J H A Z E N • B E T TY L H A Z L E • D AVID A H A Z L E H U R S T • D A N IE L T H A Z L E T T . L E E R H A Z L IT T • PEGGY P H A Z L IT T • S H A U N A L H A Z L IT T • J O H N P H A Z Z A R D • JU H E • L IP IN G H E • A N N IE J H E A D • C AROLYN F H E A D •
C H R IS T IN E A H E A D • D A V ID J H E A D • D E N IS E H E A D • D O R O T H Y L U C IL E L H E A D • H A R O L D L H E A D • IR IS M H E A D • K R IS T E N H E A D • M IC H A E L E H E A D • S H E L L Y M H E A D • S U S A N M H E A D • T O N I M H E A D •
of the Games.
V E R N E T T A L H E A D • Y V O N N E M H E A D .J A M E S M H E A D JR • W IL L IA M G H E A D IN G T O N • J A N E T P H E A D L E Y • T H O M A S C H E A L A N • A L M A J H E A L D « J U D IT H L H E A L D • B ^T R IC IA A H E A L D » CARO^L S H E ^^
•
T H O M A S F H E A L E Y ♦ B E T T Y H E A L Y . C A T H E R I N E L H E A L Y .J E N N IF E R S H E A L Y .M A R T IN J H E A L Y • P A M E L A J H E A L Y • D E B B IE J H E A N E Y • C A R L T O N D H E A R D • C H A R L E S H E A R D * D EVA U G H N H E A R D •
e a r n e s t H E A R D • G E O F F R E Y A H E A R D • G E R A L IN E L H E A R D * JE F F E R Y H E A R D • N E L L IE M H E A R D • N E L S O N M H E A R D « SE LE R Y P H E A R D • G E R A L D D H E A R L S O N • C A R O L Y N K H E A R N ♦ G E O R G E W H E A R N
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o m p e t it io n
THE
Games. Reacting to her w in. Van Dyken says,
80,237 fo r the m o rn in g session and 80,511 for
go to accommodate and support O lym pic a th
"To all the girls w ho k in d o f gave me a hard
the evening events.
letes and guests. Rojek, a U niversity o f Georgia
The first athletics medal and Ecuador's first
the opening o f the athletics events provide
O lym pic medal ever is w on by Jefferson Pérez
m ent placed h im at the DeKalb College track,
some o f the m ost m emorable m om ents on day
there." In a very productive week. Van Dyken
fo r his performance in the 20 km race walk.
is concerned th a t the six Comoran runners do
seven o f th is O lym piad.
anchored the 400 m freestyle relay team on
Pérez, w ho placed o n ly
n o t have ru n n in g shoes, so he travels to a
Monday, w on the 100 m b u tte rfly on Tuesday,
Cham pionships, is as amazed as the fans w ho
sporting goods store to buy a pair o f shoes for
gold-medal finishes, Am erican swim m er Am y
swam the freestyle leg o f her team's w in n in g
cheer his victory. Pérez comments that, when
each member o f the team.
Van Dyken upsets world-record holder Jingyi
performance in the 400 m m edley relay on
he realized he was in the lead, he felt alm ost as
Le o f the People's Republic o f C hina in the 50
Wednesday, and wins the 50 m freestyle today.
if he was in a dream. "T hen," he said, "I
Sixteen-year-old Rachida Mahamane of
Niger, com peting in the first heat o f the
m freestyle, becoming the first US w om an to
For any athlete, these feats w ou ld be extraordi
th ought, this is m y dream. I have to go fo r it
wom en's 5,000 m race, steals the hearts o f the
w in four gold medals at a single O lym pic
nary, b ut they are all the more amazing be
even if I die." His effort stretched h im almost
spectators in O lym pic Stadium. A few laps
In a spectacular reprise o f her three previous
in the 1995 W orld
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sociology professor whose volunteer assign
tim e in high school, I k in d o f w an t to say
th a n k you. This is for all o f the nerds out
The end o f the sw im m ing c o m p e titio n and
GAMES
Racewalkers begin the
men's 20 km race w alk
event at Olym pic Stadium .
é
cause this young w om an suffers from chronic
asthma.
M eanw hile, the US team's h ig h ly successful
sw im m ing efforts come to a fittin g conclusion
as the Am erican men's 4 x 100 m medley relay
team sprints to O lym pic gold in the com peti
tion's fin a l event. In the process, Jeff Rouse, Je
rem y L in n, M ark Henderson, and Gary H all Jr.
beyond endurance, leaving h im to ta lly ex
in to the race, Mahamane, in her red shoes
bid the hom etow n crowd a proper farewell by
hausted and in need o f support to leave the
and shorts, trails the field by a substantial
establishing a new w o rld record at a fu ll tw o
fie ld at the conclusion o f the race.
m argin. Eventually, the field catches up to and
seconds faster th an the previous record.
US shows off her gold
m edal— one of four
passes her by, and then passes her a second
the widest possible range o f O lym pic delega
tim e before Sonia O 'Sullivan o f Ireland crosses
co m p etitio n, a tte n tio n turns tow ard O lym pic
tions— from the largest, best-equipped, and
the fin is h line at 15:15.80 to w in the heat.
Stadium on th is first o f nin e days o f athletics
best-trained teams to teams from tiny, under
Mahamane, w ho learned she w ould be com
co m p etitio n, w h ich is am ong the Games' most
developed countries like Comoros, w hich
peting fo r her co un try o n ly tw o days before
popular events since the dawn o f the m odern
struggled to assemble and transport a team to
O lym pic era. On this day alone, the vast sta
d iu m w ill h o ld an enthusiastic crowd o f
Atlanta.
As the curtain descends on the sw im m ing
/eft; Am y Van Dyken of the
The athletics co m p e titio n attracts perhaps
A story in v o lv in g the Com oran team and
gold medals she has w on
O lym pic volunteer Dean Rojek illustrates the
at these Games.
lengths to w h ich some ACOG volunteers w ill
right: Flags representing the
37 delegations com peting
adorn the badm inton venue.
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• RUEY N H E A R N • C H A R L O T T E A H E A R O N • E L IZ A B E T H M A R N A H E A R S T • S H E R Y L L H E A S T O N • A S H L E Y R H E A T H • B A R B A R A M H EATH • B E V E R L E Y B H EATH • L IN D A S H E A T H • M AR Y J H E A T H • M A U R A F
H E A T H • M E L IS S A A H EATH • N A N C Y M H E A T H • R O B E R T B H EATH • D IA N E L H E A T H M D • P A U L L H E A T L E Y • D A V ID W H E A T O N • D E B O R A H S H E B E R T • M IC H A E L E H E B E R T * M IC H E L L E A H E B E R T • G U E N T H E R
H H E C H T • K E IT H H E C H T M A N • D E R R 1C I H E C K • S H E L L E Y R H E C K E N B E R G • A N D R E W T H E C K E R • J O S IE J H E C K E R S O N • F R A N Ç O IS E H E C K H A U S E N -E V A N S • C A R M E N D H E C K L E R • R O N J H E C K L E R •
R O N A L D M H E C K M A N • A N N E L I H E D B E R G • L IN D A R H E D D E N • A L L E N C H E D O E N JR • M ARY KATE H E D D E R M A N ATC • E L IZ A B E T H L H E D E N • R O B E R T ! H ED E N • SU S A N L H E D E N • S T E V E N J H E D G E • R E G IN A LD
D H E D G E 8 E T H • D AYTO N W H E D G E S • M A N D Y H E D G E S • T R A C IE L H E D G E S • R O S E M A R Y H E D IN • J A N E T 8 H E D L U N D • J E N N IF E R A H E D L U N D • K A IA A H E D L U N D • J E N N IF E R L H E D R IC K • LL O Y D B IL L B H E D R IC K
• C H U C K H E E G N • S U Z A N N E R H E E R • C A R IN A H E E S T E R M A N S • B E T H A H E F F E R N A N ♦ J A N E M H E F F E R N A N • J A N L H E F F E R O N • J O H N A H E F F E R O N • R O B E R T J H E F F L E Y E M T • K A T H A R IN E M H E F F N E R •
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she boarded a plane to Atlanta, is ru n n in g in
Australian team a shocking 2-1 victory. "1 was
after another surface th ro ug h ou t the day from
and least experienced horse in the field, clears
her first co m p etitio n o f the year.
lucky," Brown says o f her clutch h it o ft o f Fer
a variety o f com p etitio n venues.
A m ajor story emerges from the women's 48
Though he starts the day leading the com peti
Determ ined to fin is h the race and spurred
nandez, a form er UCLA teammate. The seeds of
THE
Brown's home run were actually planted in the
kg judo com petition, where Japan's tw o-tim e
tio n, Tait is entered in this event o n ly because
fifth in n in g , but Danielle Tyler's apparent
w orld cham pion, Ryoko Tamura, w ho has w on
his legendary teammate, Mark Todd, was forced
runner continues to run for another four m in
home run was n o t counted because she tailed
84 consecutive matches in the extra lig h t
to w ith d ra w w hen his horse was injured. Fel
utes u n til she crosses the fin is h line and col
to touch home plate.
w eig ht d ivision , is defeated at the hands o f
low New Zealand team member Sally Clark's
the Dem ocratic People's Republic o f Korea's
outstanding performance ahead o f Tait inspires
The softball com petition further illustrates
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all 15 jumps in the course w ith o u t a mistake.
on by the cheers o f the enthusiastic spectators
w ho support her w ith the wave, the young
lapses in fo the arms o f medical personnel.
GAMES
Aboubacar Agalheir, Niger's N ational O lym pic
the im p o rta n t role w om en are playing in these
16-year-old Sun-Hui Kye, w ho is com peting in
h im to avoid m aking any mistakes on the 15
Com m ittee chef de mission and secretary-
her first inte rn a tio n a l tournam ent. The audi
general expresses pride in his country's young
Centennial Games. Female athletes continue to
capture some o f the most p ro m in e n t headlines,
ence, w h ich is fille d w ith Japanese supporters,
required jum ps and thus earns the gold.
In a display o f feeling for teammate Yifu
track star, saying, "She represents the essential
as stories o f one extraordinary accom plishm ent
all o f w ho m are roo ting fo r th e ir national hero.
Wang, w ho, days earlier, collapsed as he took
I
m
top: Denm ark's track cycling
sp irit o f the O lym pic Games, w h ich is to partic
team circles th e velodrom e
ipate, n ot just to w in . We are pleased to be rep
during th e qualifying round
of the men's team pursuit.
resented at the Olym pics and to b ring Niger to
his fin a l shot in the 10 m air pistol com peti
tio n , resulting in his w in n in g the silver medal
gether w ith the other countries in this s p irit."
rather th an the gold, the People's Republic o f
On the softball diam ond, the Australian
Senft (right) and Andre
team finds itself one strike away from a perfect-
China's D uihong Li is moved to tears as her
nation's flag is raised d urin g her medal cere
Ehrenberg (left) com pete
game defeat at the hands o f US hurler Lisa Fer
mony. Though she wins her country's first
nandez. Fernandez strikes out 15 batters and
shooting gold medal in the 25 m sport pistol
does n ot allow a runner on base u n til an Aus
com petition, setting a new O lym pic record in
tralian player is placed at second base to start
the process, the 1992 silver medalist says th a t
b o tto m : G erm any's M ichael
for the bronze in th e men's
canoe double slalom
com petition.
the
1 0
‘ h in n in g as part o f the tiebreaker form at.
However, Fernandez's glee turns to bew ilder
m ent w ith one swing by Joanne Brown. W ith
her team tra ilin g 1-0 in the b ottom o f the 1 0 *,
H E F F R O N • A R N O L D J H E F L IN • K A R E N A H E F N E R • MA
G IL O A N A H E G Y A N • P E T E R H E G Y E S I • C H E R Y L A H E H IR « S U S A N D H E I D E C A R R
H O LL Y A H E IL • JA S O N H l-
medalist in judo and the Democratic People's
the importance o f w om en in the O lym pic
Republic o f Korea's first judo medal winner.
Movement, today the Georgia W orld Congress
In yet another dramatic story that testifies to
cries as her country's flag is
raised at her victory
cerem ony for w inn ing the
gold in th e w om en's 25 m
sport pistol com petition.
rig h t:7 h e N etherlands'
Laurien Verm ulst and Ellen
M eliesie rest after w inning
th e ir heat in the
w om en's ligh tw eig ht
double sculls com petition.
Center is rocked by screaming, flag-waving fans
New Zealand's Blyth Tait, rid in g the youngest
p itch over the center field fence, giving the
lO H N R
W Hi
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Wang's "silver is heavier than jher] gold."
In the in d iv id u a l three-day equestrian event.
w ith tw o outs and tw o strikes. Brown slams a
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know n Kye becomes the youngest-ever gold
left: Duihong Li of the
People's Republic of China
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C O L IN H E IL M A N • K A R L J H E IL M A N • S A R A L H E IL M A N • R IC H A R D A H E IM BU R G E R •
• L IS A M H E IN IS C H • M A R G A R E T 8 H E IN iS C H • AM Y L H E IN L • A N N -M A R IE H E IN O N E N • T H O M A S C H E IN R IC H • K R IS T IN N I
M IC H A E L D H E IN Z • B E T T E H E IN Z E L M A N N « J A C K H E IN Z E L M A N N • M A R IA E L E N A H E IN Z E N • P A T R IC IA A H E IN Z E R L IN G • S U E A H
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as the People's Republic o f China's Yaping Deng
and Hong Qiao, the defending w orld cham pi
ons and 1992 goid-medai table tennis doubles
team, survive tw o match points in the fifth and
fin al game of the semifinal match to defeat Jing
Chen and Cihiu-Tan Chen o f Chinese Taipei,
23-21. in the epic match, the Chinese Taipei
team sends the match in to the fifth game by
staving o ff tw o match points in the fo u rth set.
I'he action is certainly n o t lim ite d to the
w.
i women's events and performances, in one o f
I the most h o tly contested rivalries o f the
Im
Games, India and Pakistan, tw o hockey power
houses, play to a dram atic 0-0 fin is h before a
capacify crowd o f 15,000 at M orris Brown C ol
lege. The dom inance o f hockey by these lon g
tim e p o litic a l rivals is incredible; o f the 17
gold medals ever awarded in O lym pic hockey
co m petition, these tw o teams ow n 11 o f them .
Am erican South. From jazz to gospel, blues to
U n fo rtu n a te ly fo r these outstanding teams,
country, bluegrass to Cajun, and Zydeco to
today's tie score elim inates b o th from the
medal race.
rock 'n ' ro ll, the music is lively, fun, and m em
orable fo r the m illio n s o f people w ho vis it the
festival to enjoy the d ifferen t colors and
T
he
C
O
l y m p ic
A
e n t e n n ia l
rts
O
F e s t iv a l
l y m p ic
and
Pa r k
sounds th a t emanate from the Southern Cross
roads stages. The Southern M usic A m p h ith e
ater, the Dance H all stage, and the South on
left: Fabrlzio Nievas of
Argentina and Eun-Chul Shin
Beginning at noon and extending u n til at least
Record stage each present tw o groups every
m id n ig h t each day, a smorgasbord o f America's
hour, 14 hours a day. Visitors are encouraged
musical traditions, called the Southern Cross
to participate at the Dance H all stage, where
roads Festival, entertains audiences o f more
an enormous quilt-patterned dance flo o r ac
th an 115,000 people on three stages in Cen
commodates up to 2,500 dancers at a tim e.
te n n ia l O lym pic Park. Featuring more than
Cajun and Texas two-step, line dancing, square
1,100 gifted artists. Southern Crossroads pre
dancing, and even Native Am erican pow -w ow
sents a rousing and e ntertaining p anoply of
dance rituals are featured at various times o f
m usic and dance styles indigenous to the
the day and n ig ht.
of Korea lean on each
other during a 60 kg
(132 lb) bout in boxing.
I
Southern Crossroads offers h ig h -q u a lity per
formances in an in fo rm a l setting, and is de
signed to appeal to visitors from A tlanta and
right: Juan Dinares of Spain
top: Sounds of Blackness
and Steve Jennings of
perform s at the opening of
th e US struggle for
th e Southern Crossroads
possession of th e ball
Festival.
during a prelim inary
men's hockey match.
botto m : Spectators dance
and enjoy music in
Centennial O lym pic Park.
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J A M E S M H E IS K E L L J R • P A U L A H E IS T • L E E A H E lZ E R • J A N A J H E J L • J A M E S M H E L B IN G • P A M E L A J H E L B L IN G • C H R IS T IN A H E L B O C K • J O S E E H E L E N A • C R A IG A H E L F • A J H E L G E R S O N • K A Y A
H E L G E P S O N • T H O M A S G H E L L A N D ♦ J U D IT H A H E L L A N D • A R N O L D H H E L L E R • P E T E R R H E L L E R • R O B E R T B H E L L E R • S U E A H E L L E R • T H O M A S W H E L L E R • M IC H A E L S H E L L E R S T E IN • K E N N E T H C
H E L L IN G • K E V IN M H E L L IW E L L • E R IK A C H E L L S T R O M • JAY P H E L L S T R O M • L IN D A L H E L L S T R O M • L IN D A S H E L LV E R • M A U R E E N H H E L M • PEGGY A H E L M • M IC H A E L S H E L M A S E • PA TR IC K M H E L M E R •
D E B B IE H E L M K E N • B R E N D A T H E L M LY • A N G E L A R H E L M S • C A R O L E H E L M S • D E N IS E H E L M S • F R A N C E S M H E L M S • F R E D R IC K E H E L M S « J A M IE E H E L M S • KELLY M H E L M S • P H Y L L IS H E L M S • K A R IN L
H E L M S T A E D T • D AVID J H E L T E S R A N • B L A K E D H E L T O N • JA M E S D H E L T O N • L IL L IA N M H E L V /IC K • T H E R E S A M. H E L W IG ATC • C A R IS S A L H E M B E R G E R • A P R IL K H E M B R E E • B E C K Y H E M B R E E • A N T H O N Y D
H E M B R IC K » E D W AR D H E M B Y - J E F F H E M B Y * JO H N C H E M B Y « A L L IS O N W H E M IN G W A Y * G E O R G E B H E M IN G W A Y * J A M E S E H E M IN G W A Y » J U D IT H L H E M IN G W A Y « P A T R IC IA L H E M IN G W A Y * J A N E R H E M M E R
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Plainsm en, a N ative
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CELEBRATING
around the w orld. The audiences are eclectic,
p a vilio n called Savor the South or grab a beer
enthusiastic, and appreciative, and the per
formers respond w ith th e ir ow n special brand
at Anheuser-Busch's Budworld. Visitors can
o f h o s p ita lity and w arm th. W hether the W ild
perstore, purchase a craft masterpiece created
Magnolias from New Orleans, whose o utra
by one o f the South's leading artisans at the
geously colorful, feathery costumes are the
Southern Marketplace, vis it the Swatch p a v il
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also shop for O lym pic m em orabilia at the Su
ta lk o f the park, or the p la in ly sung biuegrass
io n where renowned photographer A nnie Lei
o f the Appalachian Tunesm iths are perform
bovitz's p o rtfo lio o f O lym pians is on display,
ing, the stages at this festival o f Am erican
vis it General M otor's fu tu ris tic pavilio n, or
m usic and dance offer som efhing fo r every
take in a concert at AT&T's m agnificent Global
taste and interest.
O lym pic Village stage. O ther visitors cool o ff
Even to Americans, m uch o f w hat is pre
sented is unfam iliar. For example, U lali, a trio
In and enjoy the m errim ent th a t surrounds the
fop.The Southern Music
o f Native American singers, perform s b o th tra
A m phitheater features music
perform s at Southern
d itio n a l chants as w ell as a more contem porary
th a t traces its origin to the
Crossroads.
three-part harm ony, all a cappella. The Sounds
South.
o f Blackness, an ensemble beginning to gain a
significant fo llo w in g th ro u g h o u f the US, per
b ottom : Baron Pierre de
Am erican dance group,
Coubertin is honored in
form s tra d itio n a l spirituals as w ell as m any
Centennial Olym pic Park by
o riginal songs th a t electrify the crowds that
G atew ay to Dreams, a
th ro n g to hear them . Steve Riley and the
sculpture by Raymond
Kaskey donated by th e US
M am ou Playboys kick out tra d itio n a l Cajun
Pierre de Coubertin Society.
sound th a t occasionally crosses over in to rock
'n ' roll, w h ile Maggie Lewis and the Thunder
bolts, a rockabilly band from Shreveport,
f t
Louisiana, gives audiences an authentic sense
spectacular Fountain o f Rings in the center o f
fhe park, or take pictures o f each other w ith
o f fhe roots o f rock 'n ' ro ll. From the Plains
the statue o f Baron Pierre de C oubertin or one
men, a N ative Am erican dance group, to O th
o f the other p ub lic artworks th a t have been
ello, a h o t band o ut o f M ia m i th a t brings the
comm issioned fo r and placed th ro u g h o u t the
excitem ent o f the Caribbean steel drum to
gether w ith contem porary funk, the three
grounds.
Southern Crossroads stages are fille d w ith ex
I
h ila ra tin g musical performances.
fhe joy and relaxation o f Southern Cross
As the close o f the seventh day o f com peti
tio n approaches, the thousands o f people w ho
have come to the park th is evening exude a
sp irit o f generosity, g oodw ill, and relaxed ca
roads spills over in to the extraordinary atmos
maraderie. That such a large body o f people,
phere o f C entennial O lym pic Park, tru ly the
representing innum erable ethnic origins, re li
central gathering place o f Atlanta's Games. The
gious persuasions, p o litic a l systems, and eco
park Is a place to m ingle, share stories from
nom ic strata can come together and peacefully
the day's com petitions or other O lym pic expe
enjoy each other's com pany on this summer
riences, and meet people from all corners of
evening is indeed a tribu te to the best o f w hat
the w orld. It is also a place to sample authentic
the O lym pic M ovem ent represents. A wish
southern foods prepared at a massive food
th a t this sp irit could be sustained in d e fin ite ly
and extended th ro u g h o u t the w orld Is ex
pressed freq ue n tly by visitors and staff.
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• J O H N L H E M M E R • M AR Y R H E M M E R • C E L IA E H E M P H IL L • JO H N S H E M P H IL L • K A T H Y D H E M P H IL L • T IM O T H Y R H E M P H IL L • W IN IF R E D W H E M P H IL L • E D G A R H E N A O • V IR G IN IA R H E N C E L Y • M A R K J
H E N D E L S O N « J O S E P H A H E N D E R S H O T T • A M Y F H E N D E R S O N • A M Y L H E N D E R S O N • BE VER LY C H E N D E R S O N • B R E N D A D H E N D E R S O N • C H A R L E S D H E N D E R S O N • C IC ILY N H E N D E R S O N « C Y N T H IA O
H E N D E R S O N • D A N IE L S H E N D E R S O N • D A V ID C H E N D E R S O N • D A V ID R H E N D E R S O N • D E B O R A H A H E N D E R S O N • D E N IS E M H E N D E R S O N • G A IL H H E N D E R S O N • G E R A L D O H E N D E R S O N •
H O W A R D M H E N D E R S O N • J R O SS H E N D E R S O N ♦ J A M E S A H E N D E R S O N « JA M E S B H E N D E R S O N « J A N E T H E N D E R S O N • J A N E T M H E N D E R S O N « J O H N E H E N D E R S O N « J O H N M H E N D E R S O N « J U D IT H P
H E N D E R S O N « JU D Y R H E N D E R S O N « K A R E N R H E N D E R S O N • KARLYN D H E N D E R S O N « K A R O N G H E N D E R S O N • K A T R IN A T H E N D E R S O N • K E IS H A L H E N D E R S O N • K ELLY J H E N D E R S O N • KY LE H E N D E R S O N
• L A R H O N D E K H E N D E R S O N • L E V I R H E N D E R S O N • L IN D A C H E N D E R S O N • L IS A R H E N D E R S O N « L L O Y D O H E N D E R S O N « L O N N IE D H E N D E R S O N • LY N N A H E N D E R S O N • M A R G A R E T C H E N D E R S O N •
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t
D a y E ig h t
2 7 JULY 1 9 9 6
A
n a n o n y m o u s terror
stuns A tlanta
the Games w ill go on. ACOG's staff assesses the
and the w orld when, at 1:20 a.m., a pipe
situation at every venue and prepares for the
bom b explodes in C entennial O lym pic Park,
shattering the peace w h ich has permeated the
fu ll day o f co m p etitio n and other events that
Games thus far and replacing it w ith confusion
early hour is to w hat extent the park explosion
w ill negatively im pact the Games themselves.
and grief. The explosion th a t rocks the carefree
crowd th a t had gathered yesterday at the end
o f the evening to hear the concert at the
T o d a y ’s
Calendar
C om petition
lie ahead. W hat AGOG does n o t know at this
How m any volunteers w ill be frightened
Aquatics—diving, water polo
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Global O lym pic Village stage takes the life of
away? W ill all the venues be operational? W ill
ticket holders come? W ill the athletes partici
1 person and injures 110 others. A n othe r per
pate as scheduled? These and m any other ques
Canoe/kayak— slalom
Boxing
son dies o f a heart attack sh ortly thereafter.
tions surface in the imm ediate aftermath o f the
Cycling—track
The park, w h ic h has been such a positive and
explosion, th ro ug h ou t the night, and in to the
Equestrian
illu m in a tin g force th ro u g h o u t the Games, is
early m orn in g hours, when venue teams are
Football
suddenly and tragically stunned in to silence,
scheduled to start th e ir shifts for the day.
Handball
em ptied o f patrons and staff so th a t an inves
tig a tio n can begin im m ediately.
Shockwaves reach every part o f the O lym pic
In an almost unbelievable dem onstration of
Hockey
com m itm ent, dedication, and concern for both
Rowing
the Games as a whole and fellow staff m em
operation, b u t the determ ination reached by
bers, the num ber o f volunteers reporting for
AGOG and the IOC is fo rth rig h t and decisive—
d u ty greatly exceeds the num ber scheduled for
Shooting
Softball
Table tennis
Tennis
Volleyball—beach, indoor
W eightlifting
Yachting
Blues fo r an Alabam a Sky
J» “
and The Last N ig h t o f
Ballyhoo
H ungryT iger and Other
Tales from China and
Frankenstein
International Opera Gala
Karas: N olject
Phoenix Dance Company
Utir Street Playhouse: A ll
The peace felt in C entennial O lym pic Park since the
G am es began is shattered w hen a pipe bom b
explodes.
M A R K A H E N D E R S O N • M A R K W H E N D E R S O N • M ARY E H E N D E R S O N • M A T T H E W J H E N D E R S O N • M IA Q H E N D E R S O N • M IC H A E L A H E N D E R S O N • M UR R Y D H E N D E R S O N • N E T T IE M H E N D E R S O N • N IN A A
H E N D E R S O N • P A U L R H E N D E R S O N • P A U L T H E N D E R S O N • P H IL B E R T J H E N D E R S O N ♦ R O B E R T M H E N D E R S O N » R O B E R T T H E N D E R S O N • R O D N E Y E H E N D E R S O N • R O X A N E L H E N D E R S O N • RYAN S
H E N D E R S O N • S E L IZ A B E T H H E N D E R S O N • S A L A D IN H E N D E R S O N • S A N D Y C H E N D E R S O N ♦ S A R A H H E N D E R S O N • S H A R O N L H E N D E R S O N • S U S A N D H E N D E R S O N • S U Z A N N E H E N D E R S O N •
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tliis day. Concerned th a t some o f th e ir col
leagues m ig h t n o t be able to make it to venues
or m ig h t be too frightened to come, those w ho
were n o t scheduled report by the hundreds to
v irtu a lly every venue to lend th e ir support.
C O M P E T IT IO N
capture gold in the coxless pair event, m aking
celebrate a 21-19, 21-14 victory, supported by
In the com petitions on the Ocoee River in Ten
gold in fo ur straight O lym pic Games. Im m e d i
nessee, 17-year-old M ichal M artikan o f Slova
kia, the youngest com p etito r in the field, wins
ately after the race, Redgrave announces his re
thousands o f cheering, flag-waving Korean
fans. D uring the draw for this com petition,
tirem ent from co m petition, saying, " I f you see
Korea protested against the early m atch w ith
the gold in the canoe single slalom event, cap
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
After his w in, Yoo offers a u n ifyin g theme:
ational v ia b ility o f Atlanta's Games is beyond
tu rin g the first gold medal ever fo r his small
question. N either ACOG's dedicated paid and
central European co u n try w hich, u n til 1993,
tio n , the silver screen m ay n o t be far away. Ac
"1 fe lt like I had to beat h im because he's from
volunteer staff, nor the athletes and team o ffi
was joined w ith the Czech Republic as the fo r
cording to Switzerland's single sculls com peti
N o rth Korea, b ut now 1 feel sympathy for him .
cials, nor the hundreds o f thousands o f fans
w ho have come to this c ity for the C entennial
mer n a tio n o f Czechoslovakia.
to r Xeno M uller, b o th he and Canada's Derek
We're all from one nafion, one blood."
O lym pic Games w ill be kept away by th is cow-
Redgrave and M atthew Pinsent o f Great Britain
In the cool waters o f Lake Lanier, Steven
Porter were extras on a C alifornia m ovie set,
where the film crew chose Porter over him self
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ing, 40-m inute match, Yoo raises his arms to
Redgrave o n ly the fo u rth O lym pian to w in
me anywhere near a boat, shoot me."
After Redgrave's retirem ent from com peti
From this tim e forward, the sp irit and oper
THE
Sometimes a m atch becomes such a m is
m atch th a t the contestants decide to have a
fo r the row ing scenes. In the O lym pic setting
top: Great Britain's M a tth e w
o f today's race, Porter finishes second to
Pinsent and Steven
Redgrave cross the finish
M uller, w ith Germany's Thomas Lange, w ho
line to take the gold in the
w on gold in b o th 1988 and 1992, taking the
men's coxless pair.
bronze.
botto m : Sw itzerland's Xeno
M uller celebrates his gold
medal in men's single sculls
row ing w ith Canada's Derek
Porter (silver) and Germ any's
Thom as Lange (bronze).
ardly and outrageous act. Venues are fu lly
little fun. Such was the case in a completely
left: Touched by th e support
of her fans, M onica Seles of
staffed and stands are fille d w ith fans w ho, in
ta in Park in w h ic h M onica Seles o f the US
d ifferent kin d o f match-up at the table tennis
an intense dem onstration o f the power o f the
team defeats Argentina's star, Gabriela Saba-
venue today. Sweden's Jan-Ove Waldner, w ho
O lym pic Spirit, begin each event w ith a m o
tin i, 6-3, 6-3, Seles is so m oved by the support
b u ilt an early and insurm ountable lead over
m ent o f silence. O ut o f this silence grows pow
o f fans th a t she remains long after the com ple
Yugoslavia's Ilija Lupulesku, begins h ittin g
erful, sustained cheers for the athletes th a t res
tio n o f the m atch to sign autographs. "The
h ig h lobs and le ttin g Lupulesku h it smashes
onate th rough every venue from th is m orn in g
back at h im . A t one point, W aldner leaps over
and w ill continue to do so u n til the close of
fans have been unbelievable, and [their sup
port] d e fin ite ly pulled me th ro ug h the second
the Games. Everyone touched by th is tragedy
set," she says.
shares and carries a deeper understanding of
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A t a m o rn in g tennis m atch at Stone M o u n
Back in the c ity o f Atlanta, long-standing
a p a rtitio n and plays from the adjacent court,
allow ing Lupulesku to take advantage o f his
her victory.
right: Jan-O ve W aldner of
Sw eden builds an early lead
over Ilija Lupulesku of
Yugoslavia in the men's
tab le tennis com petition.
absence from the court to close the gap to
and profound appreciation fo r the significance
tension is converted in to a table tennis show
20-16, b ut Waldner returns to the proper court
and im pact o f the O lym pic vision. This sense
dow n as Korea's Nam -Kyu Yoo meets the De
to w in the fin a l p o in t o f the match.
o f u n ity w ill grow w ith each passing hour as
m ocratic People's Republic o f Korea's Gun Sang
the Games move ahead.
Li for the first tim e in six years. After the gruel
T A M E K A D H E N D E R S O N • T H E R E S A F H E N D E R S O N • T H O M A S J H E N D E R S O N • T H O M A S IN E M H E N D E R S O N • T IM O T H Y C H E N D E R S O N • T IM O T H Y O H E N D E R S O N • T O D D H E N D E R S O N • W IL L IA M H
H E N D E R S O N • Y O L A N D A M H E N D E R S O N • D IA N E E H E N D E R S O N F-M ♦ B O N N IE M H E N D E R S O N RN • A N N E -M A R IE H E N D R IC H • B R A X T O N H E N D R IC K S • C AR O LYN H E N D R IC K S • JA S O N B H E N D R IC K S • JO Y C E S
H E N D R IC K S • M A R S H A L H E N D R IC K S • S H IL O H A H E N D R IC K S • S T E P H E N E H E N D R IC K S • S T E V E N A H E N D R IC K S • S U S A N D H E N D R IC K S • T A M M IE M H E N D R IC K S • V A L L E R IE G H E N D R IC K S •
the US autographs their
tickets, rem aining long after
W A L L A C E E H E N D R IC K S • W IL B U R C H E N D R IC K S • W IL L IA M F H E N D R IC K S JR • C A R L L H E N D R IC K S 111 • K R IS T I H E N D R IC K S O N • PAUL W H E N D R IC K S O N • S H A R O N J H E N D R IC K S O N • B E A S E Y S H E N D R IX •
BE T T Y JA N E H H E N D R IX • B E T T Y E J H E N D R IX • C A T H E R IN E W H E N D R IX • H E R B E R T G H E N D R IX ♦ J A C Q U E L Y N M H E N D R IX • J A M E S S H E N D R IX • J A R E D M H E N D R IX « J A S O N H E N D R IX • L O U IS E H E N D R IX •
M A R K A H E N D R IX • M E L IS S A B H E N D R IX • M Y R N A H E N D R IX • R E B E C C A L H E N D R IX • R O B E R T H E N D R IX ■ D O N H E N D R IX JR • R O N N IE E H E N D R IX M D • P E T E R W H E N D R Y • B A R T R H E N D R Y X •
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A beach volleyball pioneer, Silva's on-the-field
performance and o ff-the-field leadership has
helped make this sport in to the power game it
is today. To take the gold, this talented team
defeats another outstanding Brazilian team,
Adriana Ramos Samuel and M onica Rodrigues,
12-11, 12-6. Australia's Kerri A nn Pottharst
and Natalie Cook take the bronze.
In the evening hours, 34,000 people make
th e ir way to the Georgia Dome fo r women's
basketball action. In the fo u rth game o f the
day, Brazil Improves its record to 4-0, over
pow ering the People's Republic o f C hina to re
m ain one o f o n ly tw o undefeated teams. In the
fo llo w in g game, the other unbeaten squad, the
US team, led by guard Teresa Edwards, w ho has
a record 15 assists in the victory, defeats the
top: Croatia's w a te r polo
Australian w om en 96-79.
tea m celebrates after
In an exciting h alftim e feature, the Georgia
w inn ing th e ir first gold
Dome audience leaps to Its feet and cheers as
medal as an independent
the fans w atch perennial US favorite Gail Dev
Croatian team .
ers on the venue's enormous video screen as
b otto m : Two Brazilian
she w ins gold in the 100 m. By w in n in g this
team s com pete for the
race. Devers becomes o n ly the second w om an
gold m edal in th e w om en's
to w in the 100 m in consecutive Games, de
beach volleyball final.
fought m atch, 7-6. In an equally intense and
feating Jamaica's Merlene O ttey in a p ho to fin
close contest, Spain defeats Hungary w ith the
ish. Ottey, w ho suffered a sim ilar loss to Dev
identical score.
ers in the 1993 W orld C ham pionship in
Three members o f the C roatian w ater polo
claim ing th a t it is the torso and n o t just the
goslavia, b u t th is is the firs t tim e th e y have
head w h ic h m ust cross the fin is h line first, b ut
competed as an independent country. In an
the result is n o t changed.
e m o tion al w in in the quarterfinals th is past
Friday, C roatia was assured a m edal w hen its
team defeated Yugoslavia, a w in th e y are s till
Kersee, leaps from the stands to embrace Dev
celebrating today. C om m en ting on h ow he
ers after the race. In celebration o f her w in.
feels about p la yin g fo r Croatia, form er gold-
Devers and bronze-medal w in n e r and team
medal w in n e r D ubravko Simenc says, "Tve a l
mate Gwen Torrence take a v ic to ry lap, accom
ways been a Croat. Then [1988] 1 was a c iti
panied by the flag-waving and cheering o f the
zen o f Yugoslavia, b u t now I am a Croat and
capacity audience.
The sprinters continue to take center stage at
On the playing fie ld today, Brazil's Jacque
O lym pic Stadium, w ith the men's 100 m race
line Louise Cruz Silva and her partner, Sandra
pro vid ing an equally spectacular result. Defend
meet to m o rro w in the finals. Before a capacity
Tavares Pires, w in the gold medal in women's
ing O lym pic cham pion L in fo rd Christie of
crowd o f 4,000, Croatia defeats the defending
beach volleyball and become the first Brazilian
Great Britain, one o f sprinter Donovan Bailey's
gold medal team from Ita ly in a close, hard-
w om en to ever w in an O lym pic medal.
played today determ ine the teams th a t w ill
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Devers's coach, Bobby Kersee, husband and
coach o f hep tathlo n favorite Jackie Joyner-
a citizen o f C roatia."
The tw o sem ifinal water polo matches
Stuttgart, Germany, files an o fficial protest
team have w on gold medals p la ying fo r Yu
P A T R IC IA K H E N E * M IC H A E L H E N tG A N • MARY E H E N IG H A N • T IM O T H Y P H E N K E • D AVID P H E N K E L • JA C K N H E N K E L • M A R IE H H E N K E L • S H E R R O N H E N K E L • C H A R L E S B H E N L E Y • J E N N IF E R M H E N L E Y *
P E A C H E S T H E N L E Y * P H E A O R A D H E N L E Y * LA R R Y L H E N L Y • W ALTE R III J H E N N E B A U L * W ALTE R J H E N N E B A U L J R • K A T H E R IN E O H E N N E N • L U C Y L H E N N E R • B IL L S H E N N E S S E Y * K E IT H B H E N N E S S E Y
• M E R E D IT H A H E N N E S S E Y • P A T R IC K A H E N N E S S E Y • R IC H A R D J H E N N E S S E Y • D A N IE L J H E N N E S S Y • E L L E N A H E N N E S S V * C A S S A N D R A H E N N IN G • K A T H R Y N H E N N IN G T O N • B U R D E T T A L H E N R I *
Gail Devers crosses the
finish line first, becoming
only the second w o m a n to
w in th e 100 m in tw o
consecutive Games.
P A T R IC K J H E N R IC K S • H E N N IN G K H C N R IK S E N • M IR IA M H E N R I K S E N • A PAGE H E N R Y • B R IA N C H E N R Y * D E V IE A H E N R Y • E L IZ A B E T H A H E N R Y * E L IZ A B E T H J H E N R Y * F R A N K IE L H E N R Y • J A N E T E H EN R Y
• JE F F R E Y H E N R Y . J IL L
H E f4 R ^
* K E LLY H E N R Y * K E V IN G H EN R Y * L A S S E L L C H E N R Y * L IS A M H EN R Y * M AVIS H EN R Y * M IC H E L E A H E N R Y * M IK E H E N R Y * M IR IA M P
H EN R Y . N IC O L E H E N R Y * R A N D V G H EN R Y * S A N D ^ ^
T IM O T H Y H E N R Y * T IM O T H Y A H E N R Y * T R A C IE R H EN R Y . T R IS H A L H E N R Y * T U E S D A Y H E N R Y * T Y S H A W N A H E N R Y *
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o f Canada's m ain com petitors to r the gold, Is
disqualified after tw o false starts. The Canadi
ans celebrate as Bailey crosses the fin is h line In
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equipped and staffed vans, sent to resolve
problems th a t cannot be handled by venue
box office teams alone.
the men's 100 m In the w orld-record tim e of
An occasion to Im plem ent th is carefully
9.84 seconds. The race Is s till a close one, as
planned system arises this m o rn in g when, due
Frank Fredericks o f N am ibia and Ato Boldon of
to a late change In the sports and television
'i'rlnldad and Tobago fin is h just behind Bailey.
schedule, the m o rn in g beach volleyball
W ith nearly 9 m illio n tickets sold to a v a ri
THE
matches are consolidated from tw o courts o nto
ety o f events In 31 venues over the course o f
the m ain court. W ith more th an 11,000 tickets
17 days— an average o f more th an 500,000
already sold to events th a t were to occur on
tickets per day— the sale and servicing of
O lym pic tickets Is unrivaled In co m p le xity and
tw o courts, approxim ately 3,000 people w ill ar
rive w ith tickets, b ut w ill have no place to sit.
h
m
M
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X Mleft: A spectator purchases
tickets at one of ACOG's
m obile ticket o u tlet vans.
volum e. M onths
have been devoted to
developing c o n tin
Beach venue. The customer service specialists
gency plans th a t w ill
apprise ticket holders o f the situation as they
cham pion Linford Christie of
enable ACOG's Ticket
arrive at the lots and offer them a choice o f a
Great Britain prepares for
Sales D epartm ent to ad
right: Defending Olym pic
th e men's 100 m final event.
refund, a ticket to another beach volleyball
dress any problems th a t
game, or a tlcket-for-tlcket swap fo r a Closing
m ig h t arise durin g the
Cerem ony ticket. W ith o u t this contingency
crush o f a c tiv ity around the
Games. One o f the princip al
contingencies Is the rapid dis
patch o f a m obile ticke ting op
eration, a fleet o f specially
plan and the allocation o f equipm ent and staff
To avoid m aking these patrons unhappy.
Ticket Sales activates the contingency plan,
to handle such crises, this m orning's problem
could n o t have been effectively resolved.
telephoning all large-volume customers and re
trie vin g 1,200 tickets. This m ornin g, to serve
O
l y m p ic
A
rts
F e s t iv a l
the rem aining 1,800 customers w ho w ill arrive
at the venue, Ticket Sales dispatches fo ur m o
W hen asked to describe southern culture, most
bile ticket o utle t vans capable o f selling tickets
people, especially southerners, have strong
on-lin e and a team o f 20 customer service spe
opinions. Southern culture Is complex, diverse,
cialists to parking lots serving the Atlanta
and elusive. W hether language, geographic
boundaries, food, social customs, architecture.
top: G reat Britain's Bethan Raggatt and Susan Carr
tack behind the N orw egian and Finnish team s in
th e w om en's double-handed dinghy (470) yachting
com petition.
b otto m : Germ any's Elisabeth M icheler-Jones makes
a run through the Ocoee River in the w om en's
kayak single slalom com petition.
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J H E N S L E Y » T A M M Y L H E N S L E Y • B A R T W H E N S O N • C A R L H H E N S O N • D E B R A A H E N S O N • D IE D R E M H E N S O N • J A N E E H E N S O N • L E S L IE M H E N S O N • L IN D A J H E N S O N ♦ P H IL L IP L H E N S O N • R IC H A R D L
H E N S O N • R O B E R T L H E N S O N • S H A R O N D H E N S O N • V IC K I O H E N S O N • V IC K IE V H E N S O N • V E R O N IC A H E N S O N -P H IL L IP S •J A C Q U E L IN E S H E N S O N R N • KATHR YN L O U IS E H E N T E R • M ARY W H E N T O N •
M A LIK H E P B U R N ♦ E R O B E R T H E P F N E R » D O U G LA S E H E R A K O V tC H • D A R L E N E R H E R B E R T • EV ELYN B H E R B E R T • J A M A D H E R B E R T • JA M E S C H E R B E R T • R O B E R T C H E R B E R T • T E R l LY N N H E R B E R T • LAR RY
R H E R B E R T JR • J O D IE B H E R B IG • W IL L IA M H H E R B IG • W IL L IA M L H E R B IG • W IL L IA M R H E R S IG ‘ JA R E D M H E R B S T • M AR K A H E R S S T • C AR O LYN R H E R C H E • J E N N IF E R B H E R D E N • L IS A M H E R D E N • R A L P H
B H E R D E N J R • V IC T O R R H E R E C • V L A D IM IR A M H E R E N A • M A T T H E W R H E R H O L Z • T R E S H E R IN • E R IK B H E R IT A G E • J O H N -D A V ID H E R L IH Y • A L L A N H E R M A N • A N D R E W M H E R M A N • B R O D IE S H E R M A N •
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Am ong the m ost popular features o f the ex
in itio n o f southern culture is rare, even among
h ib it is a video th a t presents the m any styles
the most knowledgeable scholars. Thus, the A t
o f music th a t collectively define the soul of
American music and to w h ich the hundreds o f
lanta H istory Center's effort to create a m ajor
THE
e xh ib itio n to help O lym pic visitors understand
musicians w ho are scheduled to perform on
the intangible qualities o f southern culture
the Southern Crossroads stages in C entennial
makes the American South: Past, Present, and Fu
O lym pic Park are connected. As the source for
ture among the most challenging projects pre
m uch o f w hat the w o rld knows as Am erican
sented at the O lym pic Arts Festival.
The H istory Center, one o f the South’s land
music, the South, th ro ug h the varied and com
plex confluence o f Native American, African,
mark cultural institutions, has recently ex
and European musical traditions, has forged a
panded its facilities w ith the a dd itio n o f a mag-
wide range o f musical expressions fhaf, espe
top: Performances of The
Hungry Tiger and o th er Tales
from China at the Center
for Puppetry Arts w ere
extrem ely popular.
Si'
bottom : One of the
public art focal points
of Centennial Park is
the sculpture. Tribute to
Olympia, provided by
the American Hellenic
Educational Progressive
Association.
day visited the Southern Crossroads stages to
discover, listen to, dance w ith , and enjoy the
rich variety o f u n iq u e ly southern cultural con
tribu tion s. The silence th a t w ou ld engulf the
park over the next few days w o u ld be in stark
contrast to this festive atmosphere.
The A m erican South: Past,
Present, a n d Future
exhibition explores the
origins of southern culture
on many levels, including its
agricultural (left) and its
cultural (right) heritage.
n ific e n t new b u ild in g w h ich is the site o f this
im p o rta n t and in trig u in g e xhibitio n. Both his
torical and topical in nature, this e x h ib itio n
poses as m any questions as it provides answers.
It leads visitors th rough a fascinating sequence
of historic artifacts, photography, southern d i
cially d u rin g the past 50 years, have become
alects, everyday objects, liv in g spaces, social
customs, and music in an effort to explore the
the m ost in flu e n tia l and significant export o f
Am erican culture. The m agnetic a ttraction o f
nature, substance, and spiritual underpinnings
southern culture was evident b o th at the His
o f the American South. For southerners and in
to ry Center, where scores o f people gathered
ternational visitors alike, this e x h ib itio n offers
numerous messages about southern culture
around the television m o n ito r fo r repeated
from w hich the observer can draw his or her
O lym pic Park, where over 100,000 people each
showings o f the video, and in C entennial
ow n conclusions about the true character of
the American South.
Atlantal996
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D AVID M H E R M A N • D I A N N K H E R M A N * L A U R A E H E R M A N * L O U IS R H E R M A N * M A R G A R E T J H E R M A N • PA U L J H E R M A N • M AR Y J H E R M A N N • J O D IE U H E R M A N N C ATC • D A N V J H E R M 1 2 * T O M H H E R M S T A D •
A N A M A R IA H E R N A N D E Z • B E R N A D E T T E H E R N A N D E Z • B O B B Y H E R N A N D E Z • C A R L A A H E R N A N D E Z • C L A U D IA M H E R N A N D E Z • F E L IC IA J H E R N A N D E Z • G L O R IA I H E R N A N D E Z • H E C T O R H E R N A N D E Z •
J E S U S A H E R N A N D E Z • L E O B A R D O H E R N A N D E Z • M A R IA H E R N A N D E Z • M IC K E Y A H E R N A N D E Z • R IC O H E R N A N D E Z • R O G E R J H E R N A N D E Z • S A M A R A B H E R N A N D E Z •
V IC T O R IA E H E R N A N D E Z • W Y N N E E H E R N A N D E Z • A V O N N E S H E R N D O N • J E A N E T T E M H E R N D O N • J O E L T H E R N D O N • J O Y L H E R N D O N • L Y N N E B H E R N D O N • M ATT M H E R N D O N • M IA D H E R N D O N •
P A T R IC IA L H E R N D O N • S T E P H E N H E R N D O N • H U G H F H E R N O N • C A T H E R IN E V H E R O L D • L IN D A K H E R O L D • M IC H A E L F H E R O N • M A R L E N E S H E R O U X • L IN D A D H ER R EN • D A N IE L R H E R R E R A • ED D Y A
H E R R E R A • G U ST A VO A H E R R E R A • J E S U S H E R R E R A • N A N C Y R H E R R E R A • O M A R H E R R E R A • K IM B E R LY A H E R R ES • R IC H A R D T H E R R IC K • S A N D R A S H E R R IC K • S T E L L A K H E R R IC K • J O A N E H E R R IG E S •
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y d a y n in e , m any athletes are finished
w ith co m p e titio n and e njoyin g the glo ry
or satisfaction o f th e ir achievements. An
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I w ho are responsible fo r carrying the medals
T o d a y ’s
Calendar
I and bouquets. O u tfitte d in cream summer
I dresses and sun hats, such as m ig h t be w orn to
Com petition
the u ltim a te prize fo r excellence and achieve
an afternoon garden party, these lovely young
w om en reflect the sp irit o f tra d itio n a l south
m ent in sport, is the c u lm in a tio n o f a life tim e
ern h o sp ita lity and add a touch o f charm and
o f dedicated preparation and sustained effort.
grace to the ceremonies as they accompany
The v ic to ry celebrations at w h ic h O lym pic
presenters to the v icto ry stands w ith medals
and bouquets.
Basketball
Behind the scenes, a dedicated volunteer
team, inclu ding a group o f senior citizens affec
Canoe/kayak—slalom
tionately called “ Flower Power," works overtime
Equestrian
medals are presented are steeped in tra d itio n
recalling celebrations o f v ic to ry d u rin g the
ancient Games.
Each host is afforded some creativity in the
Aquatics—diving, water polo
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Boxing
Cycling—track
style in w h ich medals and v ic to ry bouquets are
to prepare, assemble, and deliver some 2,000
Football
presented, b ut the basic ceremony is structured
by the In te rn atio na l O lym pic C om m ittee. In
v icto ry bouquets to com petition venues. These
Gymnastics— artistic
im p orta nt components o f the victo ry ceremony
are far more than a simple bunch o f flowers.
Handball
Floral designer M ary Jo Means has painstakingly
Rowing
Atlanta, these celebrations are supported by a
select group o f young wom en, all volunteers.
Hockey
Table tennis
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Tennis
Volleyball— beach, indoor
W eightlifting
Yachting
Olympic Arts Festival
Blues fo r an Alabama Sky
and The Last N ight o f
Ballyhoo
Ballethnic Dance Company
Karas: Noiject
Olympic Jazz Sum m it w ith
Wynton Marsalis
14**' Street Playhouse: A ll
-V *'
Volunteers in traditional southern dress deliver
medals and victory bouquets to th e presenters.
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created these victo ry bouquets from a com bina
Games were to be a peaceful gathering during
place, th e ir fu lfillm e n t o f the O lym pic dream
tio n of greenery and flowers, each associated
w h ic h nations could set aside differences and
o f p articip a tion and international friendship is
w ith a special m eaning or q ua lity that rein
compefe in an im partial, a political e n v iro n
no less glorious th an Germany's kayaker Oliver
forces the themes o f celebrafing the O lym pic
m ent. Though keeping track o f the winners
centennial and Atlanta's southern hospitality.
and losers th ro ug h a medal count w ou ld be a
Fix's gold medal score o f 141.22 points.
Day nine becomes like m any days from past
'I'he greens include laurel for personal glory, an
measure o f relafive performance, the m ost sig
O lym pic Games, w ith Cuba dom in a ting in the
olive branch for peace, palm for vicfory and
n ific a n t measure o f fhe success o f this new en
sports o f baseball and boxing. Before another
success, magnolia for perseverance, and lue-
terprise w ould be the num ber o f p articipating
capacity crowd o f 51,223 at A tlanta-F ulton
cothoe for hospifalify. The flowers included are
nations represented at this gathering.
cockscomb for im m ortality, helianthus (sun
flower) for loyalty, larkspur for swiftness, tiger
lily for pride, and fuberose for love.
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C ounty Stadium, Cuba edges the US baseball
team, 10-8 in men's p re lim in a ry com petition.
The im pact and value o f broad O lym pic par-
The US team battles back from an eight-run
ficip a tio n is illustrated daily in Atlanta, as it is
in every O lym pic Games. Every day, at v irtu a lly
d eficit and brings the w in n in g run to the plate
Scott Shipley of th e US, the
world's highest-ranked
kayaker, battles th e rapids
in the men's kayak
single slalom finals.
M
Bosnia and Herzegovina w ho survived four
years as a combat soldier to return to his sport
and represent his co u n try at the C entennial
O lym pic Games. The best boat his war-ravaged
co u n try could provide was a second-hand craft
w ith a h a irlin e crack across the deck th a t had
C
o m p e t it io n
every venue, athletes representing the rainbow
been patched w ith duct tape. A crowd o f
o f culfures th a t have come to the O lym pic
14,500 is on hand at the Ocoee W hitew ater
Baron Pierre de C oubertin and his colleagues
Games at its centennial illu m in a te and reaffirm
Center fo r the fin a l day o f O lym pic slalom
understood th a t the new ly revived O lym pic
Games could hold a m agnetic power and en
de Coubertin's vision by sim ply faking part.
com petition, where Karabasic beams at cheer
in the n in th in n in g b ut is turned away by the
Interacting w ith one another as individuals and
ing fans fro m a boaf given to h im by the h ig h
Cuban team. M iguel Caldes posts five runs bat
durin g value beyond th a t o f b rin g in g the
teams and crossing cultural boundaries and po
est-ranked kayaker in the w orld, Scott Shipley
ted in, and his hom e run w ith tw o men on
world's finest athletes together every four
litic a l barriers, the men and w om en w ho partic
o f the US. W h ile Shipley finishes in a disap
base leads his team to w in.
years. W h ile clearly focused on the celebration
ipate inspire observers to extend the O lym pic
p o in tin g 1 2 * place, and Karabasic in 41^t
o f excellence and achievement, the O lym pic
Spirit in to th e ir everyday lives.
A marvelous example o f the power o f this
sp irit is Samir Karabasic, a slalom kayaker of
/eft;Th e strong arm of O m ar
Ajete of Cuba contributes
to his team 's w in over the
US in men's prelim inary
baseball com petition.
From m orn in g u n til late at night, boxing
fans are freated to a series o f com m anding per
right: loannis Melissanidis,
formances, tw o o f w h ich lif t a pow erful Cuban
Greece's first ath lete to w in
a men's gym nastics medal
in 90 years, enjoys his
gold-m edal victory.
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w ith a score o f 9.850, just ahead o f Xiaoshuang
Romero advances to the flyw e ig h t 51 kg (112
lb) quarterfinals by defeating Armenia's Lernik
Li o f the People's Republic o f China (9.837) and
Alexei Nem ov o f the Russian Federation (9.800).
Papian, w hile Hector V lnent, his teammate in
C om m enting on how he prepared for his his
O lym pic Games—the other tw o being at the
the lig h t w elterw eight 63.5 kg (139 lb) class,
toric v icto ry he says, "1 said to myself, 1 was not
1984 and 1988 Games.
defeats N urhan Siileym anoglu o f Turkey w ho
was ranked no. 4 in the w orld in his w eight
loannis Melissanidis, 1 was Greece."
In the women's artistic gymnastics in d iv id
games. In the gold medal match, Spain, led by
class com ing in to the bout.
ual com petition, Romania's Simona Amanar
five-tim e O lym pian and one o f the sport's
the People's Republic o f China's H uilan Mo
first athlete to w in a gymnastics medal in 90
(9.768) and teammate Gina Gogean (9.750).
For H enry Andrade, a 110 m hurdle r and
years, taking the gold in the men's floor exercise
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the first volleyball player to w in three gold
medals, w h ich he accomplished at three
Water polo offers fans tw o outstanding final
m ost p ro ficie n t players, M anuel Estiarte, de
w ins the va ult w ith a score o f 9.825, ahead of
the day, loannis Mellssanidis becomes Greece's
/
g o ld-m ed al-w in nin g performance makes Kiraly
b oxing team's O lym pic record to 20-2. M aikro
In one o f the most em otional moments of
GAMES
feats Croatia 7-5. The bronze m atch, preceding
the Spain-Croatia contest, features one o f the
Games' most dram atic contests. D ow n four
the first and o n ly athlete from the tin y island
n a tio n o f Cape Verde, representing his coun
try in its first Games is a source o f p ro fou n d
pride. This determ ined runner, w ho w orked
fo r 25 years to q u a lify to compete in an
O lym pic Games, fin a lly accom plished his
dream in M arch o f th is year. Just w hen every
th in g seemed to be heading in the rig h t direc
tio n , Andrade ruptured his Achilles tendon
d urin g a tra in in g session in the Bahamas on
his way to A tlanta. " I had a shot to be in the
assi:
fin als," says Andrade. "A n d th a t was m y goal."
But show ing the sp irit o f a true O lym pian, A n
drade says he is n o t going to let an in ju ry
come between h im and the fu lfillm e n t o f his
dream. " I w ill be at the starting lin e fo r m y
race [today]. You w ill see m y face, and you
w ill see m y colors," he says. “ If I can o n ly
IÙË.’
walk, th en I 'll walk. But if 1 can run, 1 w ill
ru n ." W in n in g is no longer im p o rta n t. “ I am
the w inners.' Really, I've already w on m y gold
goals in the fin a l period o f play, Ita ly battles
left: Jordi Sans of Spain
here n o t o n ly fo r m yself. 1 am here fo r m y
medal just by being in the Village."
Yet another story o f O lym pic particip a tion
back to take the lead over Hungary w ith o nly
cheers after his team defeats
unfolds, th is tim e at the Stone M o u n ta in
Ita lian bench, th in k in g the game is over, dives
Archery Center, as Italy's Paola Fantato, the
Games' o n ly w heelchair-bound athlete, draws
in to the pool to celebrate, b ut in fact, the
years in refugee camps, Abu Maraheel's train in g
her first bow in the team event. The 36-yearold athlete, w ho contracted p olio at eight
far from over. The error gives Hungary a
penalty shot, and they take advantage, scoring
the ball in play in the
has been lim ite d to ru n n in g along a narrow
m onths o f age, fails in her quest fo r a medal in
all-Am erican beach
strip o f land on the Mediterranean coast. "1
b o th the team and in d iv id u a l events, b u t says,
to tie the game and send it in to overtime. In
the highest scoring game o f the tournam ent,
learned to run fast because I was chased every
"The m ost im p o rta n t th in g fo r me is to be rec
Ita ly takes the overtim e lead and hangs on to
where I w ent," he says. "I to ld m y people, 'O ur
w in, 20-18.
victo ry is to represent Palestine in the O lym pic
ognized as an athlete."
M o vin g to Atlanta Beach, the volleyball
Games and, w ith God's help, I w ill be one of
team o f Karch K iraly and Kent Steffes defeats
T à
top: Paola Fantato of Italy,
the only archery com petitor
in a wheelchair, draw s her
bow in the team event.
botto m : Karch Kiraly keeps
volleyball final.
country. Cape Verde needs the reco g n itio n ."
One o f tw o Palestinians com peting in the
Games, 32-year-old Majed Abu Maraheel, w ho
w ill compete in the 10,000 m event, brings w ith
h im a unique perspective. Having spent 25
the Croatian team for the
49 seconds left. As the clock winds down, the
gold in w a te r polo.
right: In w om en's hockey
clock shows 0.2 seconds left, and the game is
prelim inaries, Jill Atkins of
G reat Britain celebrates
her team 's w in over the
team from Germany.
M ichael Dodd and M ike W hitm arsh in straight
sets, 12-5, 12-8, in an all-Am erican fin al. The
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• T O N I M H IA T T • B E T H F H I8 B S • C H R IS T IN A C H I B B S • JE F F R E Y S H IB S H M A N • L IS A B H IB S H M A N • M A R K D N IC K E R S O N ATC • C H R IS T IN E S H IC K E Y • D IA N E P H IC K E Y • E L L E N A H IC K E Y • M A R IA N N E H IC K E Y
• N A N C Y C H IC K E Y • P A U L C H IC K E Y • P R IS C IL L A K H IC K E Y • S T E V E N D H IC K E Y • PA TR IC K T H IC K E Y JR • J U D S O N H IC K IN B O T H A M • A N D R E W D H IC K L IN G • J O Y C E H H IC K M A N • L O N H IC K M A N • P O W E L L E
H IC K M A N • T E R R I L H IC K M A N • B O N N IE E H IC K S • C A R O L A H IC K S • C A R O L E L H IC K S • C A R R IE L H IC K S • C H R IS T IN A L H IC K S • D A N E T T A M H IC K S • D E B R A J H IC K S • D O N R H IC K S • D O N N A J H IC K S •
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W h ile the rest o f the m arathon fie ld may
have had trouble keeping up w ith Roba,
O lym pic officials had no problem , thanks to a
b it o f advanced technology. A tin y com puter
chip, attached to each runner's shoelaces, is
being used fo r the first tim e in O lym pic com
p e titio n . Programmed w ith a unique bar code
th a t is transm itted to officials by a m lcrotransponder, the chip enables race officials to
m o n ito r each contestant's progress and pre
vent the confusion and possible cheating th a t
can occur in a race w ith a mass start.
The men's and women's top seeds b o th lose
An equally im p o rta n t advantage is th a t the
b ad m in ton matches today as the world's no. 6
device provides broadcasters and fans w ith in
ranked player Rashid Sidek o f Malaysia defeats
sta ntly transm itted progress reports on each
Joko Suprianto o f Indonesia, 15-5, 15-12, in
run ne r at regular intervals. Though n o t used
the men's com petition, w h ile in the women's
to record o ffic ia l times, the chips provide
com petition, no. 9 ranked Ji H yun K im o f
valuable in fo rm a tio n th a t w o u ld otherwise be
Korea defeats the People's Republic o f China's
impossible to track. Designed in the N ether
Zhaoying Ye, 11-5, 12-11.
lands and operated by the o ffic ia l O lym pic
A com bined crowd o f 152,642 m o rn in g and
3154
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w ith each runner's race num ber and sealed in
diu m witness a string o f dram atic and exciting
a plastic disc. Each tim e a runner passes over
men's and women's athletics events. The day
one o f the special mats located at five kilo m e
begins w ith the women's m arathon. M any of
ter intervals th ro u g h o u t the course, a small
the competitors, a nticipa ting a typical Atlanta
antenna picks up the bar code fro m the disc
summer day, trained fo r a h o t and h u m id race,
and transm its it via a weak m icrowave signal
b u t at race tim e, the air temperature is cool
to a computer, where the In fo rm a tio n is
and a slight m ist hangs in the air. Favorite Uta
recorded and im m e diately displayed on the
Pippig o f Germany moves in to the early lead
scoreboard at O lym pic Stadium.
b ut is overtaken at the 16 km (10 m i) m ark
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afternoon session spectators at O lym pic Sta
Later at O lym pic Stadium, Jackie Joyner-
In these Games, she w ill go on to w in the sil
ver in the 10,000 m.
A t the yachting venue, Hong Kong's tin y Lai
Shan Lee, the reigning w orld cham pion in the
and eventually drops o ut o f the race after
com petitor ever to w in an O lym pic yachting
35 km (21.7 m l). M eanwhile, Ethiopia's Fa-
the fie ld open fo r Syria's Ghada Shouaa, last
medal, clin ch in g the gold medal after o n ly one
tum a Roba surges ahead and captures the
year's w o rld cham pion, to w in the event and
race. U pon w in n in g , the 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), 114
O lym pic title in 2:26:05, tw o fu ll m inutes
her country's first O lym pic gold medal ever
lb (51.7 kg) com petitor grabs a bottle o f cham
faster th an the silver-medal w inner, Valentina
w ith a score o f 6,780 points. Shouaa finishes
pagne, pops the cork, and takes a big gulp, cele
Yegorova o f the Russian Federation, and the
217 points ahead o f the silver medalist, Na
brating her v icto ry and com m em orating the
largest m argin o f v icto ry in O lym pic history.
talya Sazanovich o f Belarus.
last tim e Hong Kong w ill compete In the
Yuko A rim o ri o f Japan takes the bronze.
m edal in th e w om en's
yachting m istral class.
women's m istral class, becomes the first Aslan
Kersee's w ithd ra w al from the hep tathlo n leaves
Junxia Wang o f the People's Republic o f
Hong Kong's Lai Shan Lee
celebrates w inn ing th e gold
O lym pic Games under Its ow n flag, as It w ill
China w ins the 5,000 m to capture her, coun
become part o f the People's Republic o f China
try's first athletics gold medal. The o n ly w om an
on 1 July 1997. In recognition o f her victory,
to attem pt b o th the 5,000 m and the 10,000 m
the Hong Kong subway com pany announces
th a t Lee w ill receive free subway trips fo r life,
and her statue m ay be erected on the bridge
th a t links the island o f Hong Kong to China.
top: C om petitors in th e m en's lig h tw e ig h t double
sculls event com pete as the sun glistens on the
w aters of Lake Lanier.
botto m : Junxia W ang, the only w o m an to com pete
in both the 5,000 m and 10,000 m events, captures
th e People's Republic of China's first athletics
gold m edal.
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H IC K S • T O N I A H IC K S • T O N Y L H IC K S • W IL L IA M A H IC K S • D E T R A J H IC K S O N • M IC H A E L E H IC K S O N • T E R R E N C E H IC K S O N • M IC H A E L J H IC K S O N M D • W IL L IA M R H ID D IN K • G A YLE D H ID D L E S O N •
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H IG G IN B O T H A M « P A M E L A H H IG G IN B O T H A M • R IC H A R D E H IG G IN B O T H A M • T R A V IS H IG G IN B O T H A M • B R E N N A N S H IG G IN S • C H E R Y L Z
H IG G IN S . D AVID L H IG G IN S . D lDR lS H IG G IN S r E R IN P H IG G IN S * G R O V E R H H IG G IN S . J IM E H IG G IN S * J O H N M H IG G IN S « K E V IN S H IG G IN S . M A D O N N A M H IG G IN S . M E R E D IT H
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rative effort has been an extrem ely g ratifying
and challenging project.
'I'he product o f a two-year collaborative rela
Founded in 1990 by W averly and Nena
tio n sh ip between the Atlanta-based Ballethnic
G ilreath Lucas, b o th form er members o f the
Dance Com pany and the Paris-based Compag
Dance Theatre o f Harlem and the A tlanta Bal
nie Ebène, this evening's w orld premiere of
Trouble by the Parisian company's founder and
let, B allethnic m aintains a co m m itm e n t to
choreographer Irene Tassembedo is an O iym pic
n o rity com m unities w ho m ig h t n o t otherwise
Arts Festival m ilestone. Launched during Cele
be exposed to the possibilities o f dance. Eager
brate Africa!, one o f the most am bitious
to expand its repertoire, Ballethnic weicomed
O lym pic Prelude programs o f the C ultural
O lym piad, this dynamic, inte rn a tio n a l collabo
the o p p o rtu n ity to w ork w ith Compagnie
reach out to and tra in young people from m i
Ebène. C om bin ing the pow erful rhythm s and
The dance group Karas
perform s N o iject at the
A tlanta Civic Center, a piece
th a t com bines Japanese
Buto technique, classical
ballet, and m odern dance.
m
p hysicality o f tra d itio n a l African dance w ith
L uther King Jr. In te rn a tio n a l Chapel, b ut as
the nuance, fle x ib ility , and grace o f classical
soon as the w ork opens, everyone senses th a t
ballet, Tassembedo has created almost an en
th is is one o f those rare times w hen every
tire ly new genre o f dance.
th in g w ill go exactly as planned. The dancers
As w ith m any m u ltic u ltu ra l ventures, b rin g
in g together artists representing very d iffe re n t
confidence, grace, and power. Tassembedo's
audience w ith its
perform ance of Trouble.
seem to take flig h t, soaring and w h irlin g w ith
cu ltu ra l backgrounds and parts o f the w o rld
to w erin g presence and in ve n tive d irection
was a trem endous challenge. Ballethnic's
give life to th is new work, and B allethnic
dancers had d iffic u lty absorbing com plex, u n
gains in sta n t prom inence. In keeping w ith
fa m iliar African movements and m elding them
the tra d itio n o f discovering b rig h t new a th
in to Tassembedo's unique choreographic ap
letic stars th ro u g h o u t each Games, th is spe
proach, b u t the end result is w o rth a ll the ef
fort.
cial evening demonstrates th a t the same kin d
Tensions are h ig h as the tw o companies
Ballethnic excites the
o f g lo ry can be achieved th ro u g h an O lym pic
Arts Festival program.
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H IL L * A N D Y H IL L « B E N N A J H I L L . B E V E R L E Y A H I L L . 8 L O IS E A H IL L * B O B B IE A H I L L . B R A D F O R D H IL L - C A L V IN H IL L .C A R O L Y N F H IL L * C ATH Y P H I L L . C E L E N A R H IL L - C H A R L E S S H I L L . C H R IS T IN E H U I
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clock, the Village provides a fu ll range of sup
port services to meet v irtu a lly any ind ivid ua l
to relax and enjoy the atmosphere, activities,
and services o f the O lym pic Village. Located
brisk business, u ltim a te ly p roviding 4,895 co if
on 270 acres (109.3 ha) o f the Georgia Institute
fures for those w ho are either preparing for or
Aquatics—diving
o f Technology campus, the Atlanta O lym pic
hop in g to be in the spotlight after capturing a
Archery
Village, w h ich protects, houses, and entertains
gold medal. The music listening center and
Athletics
O lym pic athletes as w ell as offering them all
sports video view ing and taping facilities are
Badminton
the services found in a small tow n, operates 24
also popular. Internet access is provided to ath
Baseball
hours daily fo r more th an 30 days. F u lfillin g
letes, w ho are delighted th a t they can send
Basketball
the special needs and com plex requirem ents of
E-mail to friends at home and receive it from
Equestrian
O lym pic athletes and officials fro m the 197
fans in Atlanta w ho may have just seen them
p articipating delegations and m any more cu l
compete. The call center is also busy, placing
tures, ethnic backgrounds, and religious per
suasions represents a tremendous task.
more than 10,000 calls for athletes during their
need. The hair salon, for example, does a very
Com petition
Gymnastics—artistic
Handball
Hockey
Softball
stay in Atlanta. W ith Olym pians being some of
Table tennis
the healthiest people on earth, the Village
Tennis
bished and new d o rm ito ry rooms and an al
health club does a very brisk business, hosting
Volleyball— indoor
m ost u n lim ite d m enu served around the
6,300 athlete visits in less than 30 days.
W eightlifting
In a d d itio n to o ffe ring housing in refur
Yachting
Olym pic Arts Festival
ART Station: Harmony
A in 't Easy
Australian Youth Orchestra
Ballethnic Dance Company
Center for Puppetry Arts:
Bathtub Pirates
O lym pic Jazz Sum m it w ith
Wynton Marsalis
RoyalThai Ballet: Khan
Village residents relax in th e residential zone
of the Olym pic Village.
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Am ong the most popular Village services,
pore, chooses an elaborate Harley-Davidson
ta tto o th a t reads, "Live to Ride, Ride to Live,"
store, where athletes and officials purchase
is massage therapy. Massage therapists, whose
w hile Jilm a Patrick, w ho w ill compete for the
large quantities o f O lym pic merchandise. Espe
services are available free to every athlete, per
V irgin Islands in the 4 x 100 m relay, chooses a
cially popular are O lym pic pins and postcards,
form various styles o f massage designed to en
more rom antic design: a rose and rib bo n th a t
w ith over 38,000 pins and 65,000 postcards
hance an athlete's tra in in g regimen or provide
entwines the words "True Love."
purchased by Village residents. M ost popular of
relaxation. Under the auspices o f the sports
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Business is brisk at the Village department
offered to athletes fo r the first tim e in Atlanta,
Athletes' lunches, the result o f more than
THE
all, however, is the video games arcade and
m edicine program, 130 therapists were selected
12 m onths o f careful planning, contain a bal
laser tag arena, a state-of-the-art fa c ility th a t is
from a field o f several thousand applicants.
anced and fla v o rfu l array o f 12 components
packed all day and n ig h t in to the early hours o f
"These guys are incredible," says th e ir supervi
designed to meet the special dietary require
the m orning, hosting a to ta l o f more than
sor Brian Glotzbach, w ho also staffed the US
ments and hig h caloric consum ption o f a th
54,000 visitors during the Games. Photography
Track and Field trials in A tlanta earlier this
letes. W ith a daily consum ption o f 8,500-
is also on m any athletes' minds, w ith more
,
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than 8,700 transactions in the Village photo
shop, m any fo r m u ltip le rolls o f film . There is
summer. Tw enty-five therapists w ork in the
even a bank, w h ich makes over 12,000 transac
Village's sports m edicine center, w h ich is open
tions, and a florist, w hich fills orders fo r bou
d aily from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Over 50 athletes line up each day between
5:00 p.m . and 9:00 p.m. to have the "Tattoo
Lady," Elizabeth Menzel, decorate th em w ith
top le ft and r/g/if.'The Village
10,000 calories, O lym pic athletes require n ot
quets to congratulate athletes on th eir triu m p h
just raw fuel, b ut a precise blend o f ingredients
or participation.
th a t w ill help m axim ize th e ir performance.
A team o f 36 people works lite ra lly around
the clock, preparing a d aily m enu th a t in
land, Tennessee), Columbus, and at the five
The sign above her table in the m ain recre
cludes breakfast, lunch, and din ne r and rotates
fo o tb a ll venues are models o f e fficie n t and
a tion center at the O lym pic Village reads, "Tat
on a five-day cycle. A ny athlete away from the
h ig h -q u a lity operations, offe ring the athletes
toos so real yo ur m other w ill fa in t." Though
Village for more than fo ur hours can order a
the highest level o f service and support ever
th ey look permanent, these tattoos are de
boxed lunch. There is no lim it to the num ber
provided at an O lym pic Games.
signed to last o n ly a few days before washing
of lunches an athlete m ay order, so those w ith
off. W ung Yew Lee, a trap shooter fro m Singa-
bigger appetites are accommodated. Clearly,
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/e ft.T h e CardioTheater,
equipped w ith televisions
there are some very big appetites, as approxi
and stereos, energizes the
m ately 55,000 lunches w ill be consumed over
athletes as they w ork out in
th e Village healthclub.
the 33 days o f Village operations.
health club is consistently
right: An ath lete takes
advantage of th e state-ofth e -art exercise equipm ent
b otto m : An ath lete is coiffed
in th e Village health club.
at th e Village hair salon.
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o u tly in g villages in Savannah, Ocoee (Cleve
one o f over 300 designs fro m her collection.
popular am ong Olym pians.
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Lewis's w in w ould n o t have been possible
j w ith o u t his memorable performance yesterday,
O lym pic Stadium is packed w ith fans and
I when he made a jum p th a t defined the very
rocks w ith excitem ent again today. In a perfor i essence o f w hat it means to be an O lym pian. In
mance th a t caps one o f the most amazing and I 1 5 * place after tw o qua lifyin g rounds, in his
insp irin g O lym pic careers o f the century,
I last attem pt to q ualify for the finals, Lewis
Am erican Carl Lewis leaps in to the record
I soared as if on wings to 8.29 m (27.2 ft).
books as he soars 8.5 m (27.9 ft) in the long
I
jum p. In w in n in g this event— this th ird o f six
I drama unfolds. US sprinter M ichael Johnson
Early in the evening, another memorable
attempts at these Games to capture his n in th
arrived in A tlanta w ith the hope o f becoming
O lym pic gold medal— Lewis joins O lym pic leg I the first man ever to w in O lym pic gold in b oth
end A1 Oerter, discus gold medal w in n e r from
I the 200 m and 400 m. He achieves his first
top: M ichael Johnson of
the US proudly displays
his country's flag after
w inning the gold medal
in the 400 m.
b otto m : Carl Lewis of the
US collects the sand he
landed in to w in the gold
m edal in the men's long
jum p com petition.
goal today by sprinting past the field in the
top-. Olym pic Stadium at
400 m to capture a gold medal in 43.49 sec
night provided a m agnificent
onds. Roger Black o f Great Britain takes the sil
ver medal w ith a tim e o f 44.41 seconds, w ith
Uganda's Davis Kamoga earning the bronze
backdrop for w om en's
athletics com petition.
bottom-. M arie-Jose Perec
w ith a tim e o f 44.53 seconds. Alm ost a fu ll sec
ond faster than his nearest competitor, John
trium phs as she w ins
gold in the 400 m, setting
an Olym pic record
son also sets a new O lym pic record for the
400 m in his 5 5 * consecutive com petition fi
in the process.
nals w in, a streak that stretches back to the
1989 ind oo r season.
1956 to 1968, and the o n ly other O lym pian to
collect four consecutive gold medals in a single
event. Today's jum p is Lewis's longest since he
Meanwhile, in the women's 400 m, France's
Marie-Jose Perec, defending O lym pic champion,
runs the fastest 400 m by a woman in 10 years
edged M ike Powell to w in the gold medal at
and sets an O lym pic record, w in n in g the gold
the 1992 O lym pic Games in Barcelona.
w ith a tim e o f 48.25 seconds. Perec, w ho is
poised to m atch Michael Johnson's try for a
second gold in the 200 m on 1 August, is a
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medal is a special victory. " I am n o t happy
Moceanu tum ble head-first o ff the balance
w ith m y tim e, b u t I am happy w ith the color
beam, scores a 9.862 on the beam to capture
o f the medal because I was able to upgrade,"
her second gold o f these Games and her sev
said Q uirot, w ho w on the bronze in this event
enth in the last tw o O lym pic Games.
in Barcelona. M uto la takes home the bronze
medal at these Games.
In a m o rn in g men's hockey m atch, Australia
secures a place in the semifinals for the th ird
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In an e xciting fin is h to the men's vault, a
bonus o f .02 o f a p o in t awarded fo r distance
gives the Russian Federation's Alexei N em ov a
score o f 9.787, enough to w in over V ita ly
straight O lym pic Games w ith a 2-0 w in over
Scherbo and garner the gold medal. Scherbo
Great Britain. In this game, Australian veteran
w ins the bronze, w h ile Korea's H ong-C hul Yeo
M ark Hager sets a national record by playing
takes the silver in the best fin is h ever fo r any
in his 2 2 8 * in te rn a tio n a l match.
Korean gymnast. In the parallel bars event.
/eft; A last-second score by
Croatia takes the Russian
Federation o ut of the medals
In handball.
right: Hye-Young Yoon of
Korea qualifies for the
second round during the
w om en's Individual
archery com petition.
top: Baeden Choppy of
remarkable athlete whose record-setting per
Australia helps his team
formance w ill go dow n in O lym pic history.
advance to a victory over
G reat Britain.
b o tto m : Gina Gogean of
Rom ania perform s on the
balance beam in the
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w om en's artistic
The gold flows at the gymnastics events as
Rustam Sharipov o f U kraine w ins the gold
the in d iv id u a l rounds continue in b o th men's
w ith a score o f 9.837, w h ile Jair Lynch o f the
and wom en's events. Ukraine's Lilia Podko-
US w ins silver, the first medal fo r the US on
w ith the expectation th a t the contest w ill be
payeva becomes the first gymnast since Nadia
the bars since 1984.
between Maria Lurdes M uto la o f Mozambique,
Comaneci (1976) to fo llo w an all-around gold
w inn er o f 45 consecutive 800 m races, and
m edal up w ith an in d iv id u a l gold, this tim e in
tested men's handball m atch, Croatia scores
h ig h ly regarded Ana Fidelia Q uirot o f Cuba.
the flo o r exercise, where she scores a 9.887.
the decisive goal to defeat the the Russian Fed
But in yet another upset, the Russian Federa
Am erican Shannon M iller, despite having
eration 25-24 and earn a spot in the sem ifinal
tion's Svetlana Masterkova, w ho took three
watched her younger teammate D om inique
A n ticipa tion for the women's 800 m is great,
W ith o n ly fo ur seconds left in a closely con
years o ff from com petition to recover from in
juries and have a baby, w ins the gold medal
w ith a tim e o f 1:57.73. For Q uirot, the silver
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round w hile Russia, favored by m any to cap
Zhoucheng Yu, w ins the silver, w hile Am erican
th in g fo r every level o f interest, knowledge,
ture the gold, is elim inated from the medal
M ark Lenzi, w ho w on the event in 1992, takes
and experience— from an in fro d u c to ry display
ater at the 1 4 * Street Playhouse is the site o f
rounds. Croatia's bench empties in a ju b ila n t
the bronze. The Chinese team has already w on
o f sfamps fo r child re n to displays o f the rarest
a w o rld premiere presentation b y ART Station
celebration as the fin a l goal is scored and tim e
three medals—tw o gold and one silver— in the
o f stamps, coins, and other O lym pic m em ora
o f Sfone M o u n ta in , Georgia, one o f the m et-
first tw o d ivin g events o f Atlanta's Games.
b ilia. More th a n 40 dealers are on hand to
ro p o lita n -A tla n ta area's m ost dyna m ic and
runs out. Joseph Kaylor, believed to be the lone
show, buy, sell, and trade items from th e ir col
successful arts organizations. In a d d itio n to
team, has been w atching matches th ro ug h ou t
lections. There is even an auction held for
p ro du cing theatrical works, ART Station
each category o f collectibles. Gold, silver, and
m aintains a strong presence in and support
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The in tim a te , 100-seat Second Stage The
surviving member o f the 1936 US handball
the week. The game has changed sign ifican tly
GAMES
since Kaylor played on an outdoor court w ith
One o f the popular destinations, located on
bronze medals, torches from each o f the
fo r the visual arts and serves more th an
11 players in the 1936 Berlin Games. Since the
Peachtree Street in the heart o f the O lym pic
Games, and all kinds o f badges, certificates,
100,000 people a n n u a lly th ro u g h extensive
1960s, w hen the current in d o o r 12-player ver
Ring, is the Merchandise M art, Atlanta's o rig i
tickets, programs, and o f course, O lym pic pins
outreach and tra in in g programs in the arts for
sion became popular, the outdoor game has all
nal showcase for home fu rn ish in g m anufactur-
are available. This e x h ib itio n , one o f more
c h ild re n and adults.
IOC President Juan Antonio
(SkND S P O R T S
Sam aranch poses a t the
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C entennial Collectables
exhibition w ith Hong Kong
H ong Kong A rtist
artist Nina K ungW ong.
Nina Kung Wang
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O L Y M P H IL E X
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/eft;Young people ta lk to
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more experienced collectors
th an 15 free O lym pic Arts Festival e xhibitions,
As part o f the C ultural O lym piad's Southern
attracts over 5,000 people per day, among
Play Project—a successful, m ulfiyea r program
them beg in nin g collectors, knowledgeable en
fo com m ission and develop new plays by
thusiasts, and serious collectors.
southern playw rights about the American
Centennial Collectibles’ central feature is an
South fo r premiere durin g the 1996 O lym pic
o fficial, in te rn a tio n a l c o m p e titio n fo r stamp
Arts Festival—ART Station's artistic director
D avid Thomas w rote a theatrical version o f
b u t disappeared. To the deligh t o f spectators,
ers. D uring the Games, the largest presentation
collectors called Olymphilex '96, organized
60 years after becom ing an O lym pian, Kaylor
o f O lym pic collectibles ever assembled fo r an
under the auspices o f the In te rn a tio n a l Feder
"H a rm on y A in 't Easy," a short story b y Ferrol
is honored today by a special ceremony given
O lym pic Games is being shown here in a space
a tion o f Philately. Entrants from all over the
Sams, one o f the South's m ost beloved writers.
by the In te rn atio na l H andball Federation.
o f nearly 100,000 sq ft (9,300 sq m).
w orld have subm itted th e ir collections to
compete fo r h ig h ly prized awards th a f w ill be
I whose w a rm th and w it are d is tin c tly south-
m em orabilia is always a popular attraction,
bestowed on 3 August by a distinguished in
I ern, the p ro d u ctio n is a marvelous showcase
the 1988 and 1992 O lym pic Games, completes
b u t the o p p o rtu n ity to see the Centennial Col
te rn atio n al ju ry o f experts.
his medal set by w in n in g the gold in the men's
lectibles e x h ib itio n in the m idst o f the Centen
3 m springboard event. Xiong's teammate.
n ia l O lym pic Games makes it especially in v it
C hina, w ho w on silver and bronze medals at
r/g/)f;This graphic look
w as developed for
O lym p hilex '96.
Generous in spirit, featuring characters
A large e x h ib itio n o f historic O lym pic
D iver N i X iong o f fhe People's Republic of
at th e C entennial
Collectibles exhibition.
ing. This e x h ib itio n , w h ic h has been four
years in the m aking, is designed to offer some-
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reflect the special qualities o f a long re la tio n
ship. The audience's close physical p ro x im ity
to the cast provides Thomas w ith num erous
opp ortu nities to incorporate kn ow ing glances
and quick asides th a t draw the audience in to
the play. Thomas's a tte n tio n to detail and
focus on language and cu ltural values make
Harmony A in ’t Easy an especially significant
and appealing way to share the sp irit and v a l
ues o f the South.
Both critical and audience response is warm
and enthusiastic. W ith in a few weeks o f Har
mony's w orld premiere, ART Station w ill receive
The R oyalThai Ballet gives a
requests from theaters th ro u g h o u t the country
graceful and sophisticated
perform ance of Khan
to produce Thomas's play in th e ir co m m u n i
to an audience at the
ties, c o n firm in g the power and reach o f posi
A tlan ta Civic Center.
tive O lym pic exposure.
The discovery o f u n fa m ilia r cultures is one
o f the m ost exciting o pportunities afforded by
the O lym pic Arts Festival. The Royal Thai Bal
let is giving its first performances in Atlanta,
and tickets fo r this performance have been
selling w ell from the m om ent they became
available. A n tic ip a tio n is h ig h as the curtain
rises on a gloriously co lo rful and b ea utifu lly
i.
perform ed evening. The program includes
m ajor segments from the Ramayana legend, a
h istoric epic th a t is an essential aspect o f m any
Asian cultures. Exquisitely costumed and fea
tu rin g an instrum ental ensemble th a t performs
on a variety o f instrum ents, m ost o f w h ich
sound u n fa m ilia r to western ears, the Royal
Thai Ballet is a com pany o f sophistication and
extraordinary grace. A tten din g the Royal Thai
Ballet presentation is like experiencing a new
cuisine, new flavors to w h ic h one's palate must
adjust and grow accustomed. A t the conclu
sion o f the performance, spirits are h ig h on
b o th sides o f the footlights: the com pany feels
w arm ly welcomed, and the audience is en
riched by this encounter, w h ic h has brought
H arm ony A in 't Easy, adapted
fo r ART Station, the C ultu ra l O lym piad, and
one o f the world's leading dance companies to
from a short story by
the New South. Performed w ith o u t in te rm is
its first O lym pic audience.
beloved southern author
sion, the fast-paced play focuses on a variety
Ferrol Sam s, shares southern
spirit and values w ith its
audience.
o f hum orous c o llisio n p oints between Dr. Fer
ro l Sams and Helen, his w ife o f more th a n 40
i years, th a t in d iv id u a lly reveal and co llectively
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T O D A Y ’S
Calendar
C om petition
Aquatics— diving,
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synchronized swim m ing
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Archery
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Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Canoe/kayak—sprint
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Cycling—m ountain bike
racing
Football
Gymnastics— artistic
Handball
Hockey
Modern pentathlon
Softball
Table tennis
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f t e r h a v in g b e e n
closed for three
days fo r an invesfigation o f the early-
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at the mem orial service in Centennial Olym pic Park.
Yachting
m o rn in g bom b blast th a t struck on 27 July,
By the tim e the gates open, the crowd has
C entennial O lym pic Park reopens today at
8:00 a.m. Thousands o f people are on hand,
swollen to more than 20,000 people, and th o u
w a itin g from before dawn fo r the gates to open
lui« i
A ndrew Young moves the audience w ith his remarks
sands more are on their way. A memorial for
in an unprecedented display o f support fo r the
the victim s of fhe blast is scheduled for 10:00
a.m., by w hich tim e the park holds nearly
athletes, one another, and the O lym pic Spirit.
100,000 people. Standing shoulder to shoulder
The tu rn o u t this m o rn in g demonstrates w hat
under the bright summer sun, the huge crowd
so m any expressed in the bomb's afterm ath—
th a t an act o f cowardly terrorism w ill n o t be
falls silent as jazz musician W ynton Marsalis
allowed to destroy the trem endously positive
sp irit o f these Games.
his trum pet, and plays an unaccompanied ver
sion o f a fune from his native New Orleans,
steps to the center of the vast AT&T stage, lifts
Blues for an Alabama Sky
Ballyhoo
ART Station: Harmony A in 't
Easy
Bathtub Pirates
Olym pic Jazz Sum m it w ith
Wynton Marsalis
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g îJOtÇhig
M ou ntain bike racing makes
its O lym pic debut.
"Just a Closer Walk w ith Thee." AGOG presi
anything, the sense o f g oodw ill that character
softball, b ringing the to ta l num ber o f sports in
attend th e m em orial service
dent and CEO B illy Payne welcomes everyone
ized this gathering place seems to reach a new
the Centennial O lym pic programme to 26.
held in Centennial Olym pic
and introduces the Reverend A n d re w ]. Young,
level o f value, intensity, and m eaning as the
ACOG's co-chair, Atlanta's former mayor, and
crowd disperses after the mem orial. It is this
the form er US ambassador to the U nited Na
special q ua lity th a t attracts the largest crowds
Games fo r 84 years and w h ich tests a com bina
tions, whose remarks move the audience deeply.
ever from today and it w ill continue to do so
tio n o f five d ifferent skills— shooting, fencing,
u n til the close o f the Games; everyone, it seems,
sw im m ing, riding, and run nin g. In past
top.Thousands of people
Park for th e victim s of
th e bom bing.
bofto m . The tragedy unites
people in th e aspiration
to w ard w orld peace.
"We are n o t here to w allow in tragedy, b ut
to celebrate a triu m p h , a triu m p h o f hum an
wants to be a part o f or touched by the park.
ta th lo n , an event th a t has been part o f the
Games, the m odern pen tathlo n has been held
over several days, b u t A tlanta brings all its seg
spirit. So we say to those w ho suffered here, we
assure yo ur suffering was n o t in v a in ," Young
This m o rn in g opens w ith the m odern pen
C o m p e t it io n
ments together on th is one day, m aking the
grueling event even more challenging.
said. This brief, eloquent m om ent o f reflection
in the m idst o f the Games has a pow erful im
O lym pic events have evolved m uch over this
pact th a t w ill be fe lt at every O lym pic venue
first century o f modern O lym pic com petition.
the athletes, support staff, and media to sev
th ro u g h o u t the end o f the Games.
Some events, such as athletics, gymnastics, and
eral venues, starting w ith shooting and fencing
swim m ing, have always been part o f the master
at the Georgia W orld Congress Center, then
titude o f the people w ith in it are unspoiled by
programme o f sports, w hile others have come
m oving to the Aquatic Center fo r sw im m ing,
the tragedy th a t occurred a few days ago. If
and gone over tim e. In Atlanta, for example,
and ending w ith the rid in g and ru n n in g seg
several new sports have been added, such as
m ents at the Georgia In te rn atio na l Horse Park.
beach volleyball, m ou nta in bike racing, and
After 12 hours o f com petition, Alexandre
The atmosphere around the park and the at
The co m p etitio n requires transportation for
Paryguin o f Kazakhstan fends o ff 1992 bronze
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m edalist Eduard Zenovka o f the Russian Feder
On the first day o f synchronized sw im m ing
a tion by a score o f 5,551-5,530 to take the
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Elmadi explains, "[Lucm an] usually w ins be
gold medal. Janos M artinek o f Hungary, w ho
for th e ir home team, w h ic h performs to near
cause he's m y coach. Before the m atch we
w on the gold medal in 1988, takes the bronze.
perfection. But stellar performances are also
talked about it and already knew w hat the o u t
delivered by the Canadian, Japanese, and M ex
come w ould be. Except it turned out different
cyclists from around the globe for the first and
ican teams, all o f w h ich receive enthusiastic
this tim e. Afterward we joke about it."
o n ly day o f co m p etitio n in m ou nta in bike rac
cheers from the crowd. Mexico's team, per
ing, a new O lym pic discipline. M o u n ta in bike
fo rm in g to liv e ly m ariachi music, gets the
tio n , a to urnam ent in w h ich 15 w o rld records
racing has taken the cycling w o rld b y storm in
spectators roaring in approval, then protesting
w ill be set, the super heavyweights are in
the past decade. C om bin ing the dangers o f off-
lo u d ly w hen scores are lower than they a n tic i
charge and continue breaking w o rld records in
road terrain w ith power, balance, and en
pated. A t the close o f the day, the US team
an amazing display o f raw power. Germany's
durance, this sport has attracted m uch atten
holds a com m anding lead over second-place
Ronny Weller is an athlete w ho has had to
tio n in Atlanta. In the first-ever O lym pic
Canada, thanks to a routine th a t earns three
m ou nta in bike race over a tough 48.7 km (30.3
perfect 10s.
m i) course, the Netherlands's Bart Brentjens,
Back at the Georgia W orld Gongress Center,
1995 w orld cham pion, bolts to the lead and
the teams from the People's Republic o f China
sets a blistering, unm atchable pace fo r the field
continue th e ir successful run on the tables in
o f 43 riders. He never looks back, com pleting
the men's table tennis co m p e titio n , b u t ex
the course in a to ta l elapsed tim e o f 2:17:38,
actly w ho contributes to this success is a b it
w in n in g the gold medal, and setting an
surprising. C om ing in to today's com petition,
O lym pic record. Crossing the fin is h line
the 1992 O lym pic g old-m ed al-w in nin g dou
0:02:36 later, Thomas Frischknecht o f Switzer
bles team o f Tao Wang and Lin Lu has lost
land w ins the silver medal.
o n ly one table tennis m atch in five years. But
In early afternoon, the w om en compete in
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score. After the contest, the brothers giggle as
com petition, US fans are o ut in force to cheer
Earlier on this day, the horse park hosted
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On the fin a l day o f w e ig h tliftin g com peti
today, the duo is defeated in the gold-medal
th e ir first m ou nta in bike racing event. Italy's
m atch by fe llo w teammates L in gh ui Kong and
Paola Pezzo overcomes p a in fu l leg cramps in
G uoliang Liu. This v ic to ry comes on the heels
her fin a l lap o f the 31.8 km (19.8 m i) course to
o f a gold-m edal v ic to ry by Yaping Deng and
take the gold, her country's fo u rth cycling gold
Hong Qiao o f the People's Republic o f China
medal o f these Games. Alison Sydor o f Canada,
in the women's doubles yesterday.
the reigning w orld cham pion, and Susan De-
On the w restling mats, there is no question
M attei o f the US take the silver and bronze
th a t the w in n e r o f the im p o rta n t second-round
medals, respectively.
m atch in the 82 kg (180.5 lb) freestyle class
top: France's team begins
w ill bear the name o f Jabrailov. The o n ly ques
its technical routine in the
tio n is w hether Elmadi Jabrailov o f Kazakhstan
synchronized sw im m ing
or his older brother and coach, Lucman
com petition.
b otto m : M en's doubles tab le
race th e ir double-handed
dinghy in th e 470 class
yachting com petition.
botto m : Kazakhstan's
Jabrailov o f the Republic o f M oldova, w ill be
Elm adi Jabrailov defeats
triu m p h a n t. Both were o rig in a lly from Chech
the US's Les Gutches to
tennis w inn ers— People's
nya and b o th are form er w orld cham pions in
Republic of China's Lin Lu
th eir w eight class. W hen the fin a l buzzer
and Tao W ang (silver).
fop. Vevhen Braslavets and
Ihor M atviyenko of Ukraine
sounds, Elm adi has defeated Lucman by a 10-8
People's Republic of China's
advance and com pete
against his brother, Lucman,
in the 82 kg class
in freestyle w restling.
Linghui Kong and G uoliang
Liu (gold), and Korea's ChulSeung Lee and Nam -KyuYoo
(bronze)— w ave from the
victory stand.
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conquer n o t o n ly his com petitors, b ut also the
captain and shortstop, hits a disputed, tw o-run
thopedic surgeon in Los Angeles C ounty so she
consequences o f a tragic auto accident in 1989
could compete, says, "M y three big O lym pic
th a t claim ed the life o f his g irlfrie n d and left
home run dow n the rig h t field line to p ut her
team ahead fo r good. The team from the Peo
h im in a coma fo r five days w ith a fractured
skull and other injuries. B a ttling back to com
ple's Republic o f C hina protests vigorously th a t
the ball passed outside the rig h t-fie ld fo u l pole,
run in m y first O lym pic at bat—well, it came
on m y fo urth . The second was to h it a home
run in the gold medal game. The th ird was to
get on the podium to get the gold medal."
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dreams happened. The first was to h it a home
petitive shape o n ly 15 m onths after the acci
b u t the h it and the score stand. Lisa Fernan
dent, Weller w on the 1992 gold medal in the
dez, whose unrivaled co m bination o f power
110 kg (242.5 lb) division. Today, W eller sets
and co n tro l make her an awesome, alm ost u n
a w orld record in the clean and jerk by liftin g
stoppable pitcher, protects the Am erican lead
225 kg (496 lb), b ut the m ark h ardly has tim e
and gold medal v ic to ry fo r the rem ainder of
to d ry in the record hook before the Russian
Federation's super heavyweight Audrey
the game. After the v ic to ry ceremony, Richard
Basketball continues to draw capacity
crowds. W ith the medal rounds just ahead, in
terest intensifies. In a stunning upset in the
son, w ho to ok a year o ff from her job as an or
quarterfinal rounds, Australia's men's basketball
team rallies in the closing m inute to defeat
left: M agalys Carvajal of
Cuba goes for a shot against
Tam my LIley of the US to
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help Cuba advance to the
sem ifinals in w om en's
indoor volleyball.
r/ghf. The US w om en's
softball team 's pitcher,
Lisa Fernandez, celebrates
her team 's victory over the
in th e gold-m edal gam e.
to the d e lig h t o f fhe more th a n 7,000 specta
tors in attendance.
In the evening hours, a capacity crowd o f
8,750 fans at the softball diam ond in C olu m
bus, Georgia, chants, "USA! USA! USA!" to
spark the w om en o f the US team to a 3-1 v ic
Chem erkin bests Weller's achievement by an
incredible 5 kg (11 lb) to set a new clean and
to ry over a talented team from the People's Re
jerk w orld record and capture the gold.
in O lym pic softball. The gold is the crow ning
Australia w ins in the
C hem erkin also sets a w orld record for his total
lif t w eight o f 457.5 kg (1,008.6 lb). Chem erkin
achievem ent for a team th a t entered the to u r
closing m inute of a men's
celebrates by p la y fu lly liftin g his team coach.
/eft;Toni Kukoc of Croatia
public o f China, and its first-ever gold medal
protects the ball before
basketball semifinal game.
nam ent w ith a record o f 110-1 against in te rn a
tio n a l co m p e titio n since 1986.
rigfjt: Sim on Fairw eather of
This game, however, does brew some con
Australia takes careful aim
troversy. Batting in the th ird in n in g , 34-year-
during a prelim inary round
of the men's individual
old D orothy (Dot) Richardson, the US team
archery com petition.
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Croatia, the defending 1992 silver medal team,
leads all countries w ith 9 boxers, w h ile the US
73-71. This earns them the rig h t to play in the
advances 7. Seven o f 8 boxers from Germany
semifinals, where they w ill meet the US team,
and 7 o f 9 from the Russian Federation are still
w h ich defeated Brazil, 98-75, in its quarterfi
nal m atch. Australia's four-tim e O lym pian, A n
com peting fo r an o p p o rtu n ity to show th e ir
best in the ring. Kazakhstan has 5 boxers s till
drew Gaze, comments th a t Australia's w in is
com peting; Algeria and Thailand each have 4;
"the biggest w in in Australian basketball his
to ry." In a very different kind o f victory, Yu
Korea has 2 boxers; Canada sends 3 boxers;
Spain, Croatia, and Turkey each have a single
goslavia scores more th an twice the points of
boxer in the m ix. A ll w ill compete in today's
the People's Republic o f China, 128-61, and
moves on to face IJthuania, w hich defeats
rounds.
In a rematch at the U niversity o f Georgia's
Greece, 99-66, in the other sem ifinal game.
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crowd o f 78,212 th a t pushes fo otba ll atten
dance over the 1 m illio n mark, Argentina
edges Portugal 2-0. Though they outshoot the
Portuguese 14-2 in the first half, Argentina is
unable to score u n til 10 m inutes in to the sec
ond half, w hen Hernân Jorge Crespo heads in
a cross by C laudio Javier Lopez. Crespo adds
another goal in the
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nd m in ute o f the game
to seal the w in . Reaching the sem ifinal game
w ith Argentina is s till a v ic to ry fo r the Por
tuguese, w ho have been absent from O lym pic
football co m p e titio n since 1928.
left: France's Rachid Bouaita
ducks a punch delivered
by Cuba's Arnaldo Mesa
during th e ir quarterfinal
m atch in th e b an tam w e ig h t
Boxers from 40 delegations have treated
W ith its w in, Argentina earns a spot in the
fans at Georgia Tech's Alexander M em orial
Coliseum to an incredible series o f matches
finals against Nigeria, w h ic h records a stun
nin g upset o f to urnam ent favorite Brazil in the
over the past several days. As o f today, Cuba
other sem ifinal contest. Behind 3-1 w ith less
class of boxing.
rig ht:Th e Russian
than 15 m inutes left in regulation play, Nigeria
scores tw o goals to tie and another goal in
overtim e to achieve a stunning 4-3 upset.
Federation's Vera Ilyina gives
top: Jose Antonio C ham ot of
a star perform ance to
Argentina assists his team
lead in th e w om en's 3 m
in trium phing over the
springboard diving
Portugese team to advance
prelim inary com petition.
to the men's football finals.
bottom : M ikko Kolehmainen
of Finland races to
qualify for the semifinals
in the men's single
kayak com petition.
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Also to n ig h t, W yn to n Marsalis, a perform er
sp irit and the m ost acclaimed and popular jazz
m usician o f his generation, is perform ing at A t
as a huge num ber o f athletes gather for w haf is
lanta Sym phony Hall. He is an artist w ho is
becoming one o f the athletes' most popular so
equally at home in the worlds o f b o fh jazz and
cial activities, the T-shirt swap. Held fo r the
classical music. A lthough he is now o n ly in his
first tim e at the Lilleham m er W in te r Games of
mid-30s, his career to ok o ff so early and he has
1994, event-sponsor C ham pion was so pleased
garnered such exfraordinary success fh a t it
w ith the bonds o f friendship generated by this
seems as if he should be twice his age. As a per
special exchange between athletes th a t they
former, Marsalis approaches everything he does
decided to try it in Atlanta. Each athlete re
w ith purpose, dedication, a co m m itm e nt to
T-shirt swapping and
challenging the boundaries o f w hat has been
signing is a favorite activity
done before, and exfraordinary dignity. He is
n o t o n ly an unm atched m usician, b ut is also
Olym pic Village.
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o f rare a b ility and uncom m on generosity o f
The O lym pic Village's dance club rocks to n ig h t
am ong athletes at the
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the leader o f an entire generation o f musicians.
Jazz has declined in p op ularify in the past
tw o decades in its native co u n try w hile flo u r
ishing in Europe, Asia, and other parts o f the
w orld. W h ile it is the m ost hom egrown o f
American musical genres, jazz is n o t always
the most accessible o f music's m any languages.
A t its core, jazz relies on im provisation. This
in tu itiv e b ut semistructured interaction, w h ich
is at the very heart and soul o f greaf jazz, is
w haf W y n to n Marsalis has so m ag nifice ntly
absorbed and comm unicates to audiences.
Marsalis attracts musicians o f like sp irit and
m in d to perform and create w ith h im on every
new project he tackles. For the O lym pic Arts
Festival, he has created a new, 10-movement
electrifies the audiences privileged to hear and
fop. W ynton Marsalis
suite th a t explores the id io m o f the Big Band
see this incredible musical event. This is jazz
rehearses the extraordinary
and the Afro-Cuban roots and contem porary
com position and performance at its finest—
10-m ovem ent jazz suite th a t
expressions o f jazz. This is n o t w hat most o f
extraordinary in d iv id u a l m usicianship that,
keep or trade, and most also b ring th e ir ow n T-
his fans have anficipafed. He has even elected
w h ile retaining its spontaneity, is buoyant,
shirts, w h ich they can also swap w ith fellow
to include dancers in his program, m aking this
trio o f jazz concerts most unusual.
focused, free-spirited, and pow erfully compact.
are the stars of today's
The evening's pure, penetrating musical energy
perform ance of Bathtub
builds from the first notes through the end of
Pirates at the Center for
ceives three free T-shirfs from C ham pion to
athletes. The dance flo o r buzzes w ith a ctivity
as O lym pians trade T-shirts and stories, dance,
The musicians o f fhe ensemble are true
w ill be perform ed tonight.
botfom ; These puppets
laugh, and autograph one another's shirts u n til
O lym pians, able to leap over the highest m usi
the concert, bringing the audience to its feet to
the club fin a lly closes.
cal hurdles w ith ease, and play faster, stronger,
and higher than one could possibly imagine.
cheer a tru ly gold-medal performance.
Puppetry Arts.
Marsalis is also at his best, leading the ensem
ble th ro ug h a m agnificent to u r de force th a t
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H O L M A N • D AW N M H O L M A N • L A U R A G H O L M A N • L O R R A J H O L M A N • P A M E LA C H O L M A N • R O B E R T H O L M A N • S H E R M A N P H O L M A N • R E B E C C A C H O LM BE RG • R O B E R T M H O L M E • A N D R E W E H O L M E S •
B E R N IC E H O L M E S * B E V E R L Y M H O L M E S * B R IA N H O L M E S • D E B O R A H M H O L M E S * D IA N E D H O L M E S ♦ ED W AR D JR A H O L M E S • G L E N H O L M E S * J A C Q U E L IN E J H O L M E S ‘ J A M E S H O L M E S «JU D Y R H O L M E S
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field o f play have taken
T o d a y ’s
C alendar
th e ir to ll th ro ug h ou t the Games so far, and
today is no exception. Five-time O lym pian,
Com petition
world-record holder, and 1988 O lym pic cham
Aquatics—diving
pio n pole vaulter Sergey Bubka o f Ukraine, suf
Archery
fering from an Achilles tendon injury, is forced
Athletics
to w ithd ra w before attem pting a single vault.
Badminton
He joins Sonia O 'Sullivan o f Ireland and Jackie
Basketball
Joyner-Kersee o f the US as gold medal favorites
Boxing
w ho are held back by in ju ry or illness. Distance
runner O 'Sullivan drops out o f the 5,000 m
Cycling— road
fin al because o f a stomach virus; weakened by
the virus and suffering from dehydration, she
Equestrian
fails to q ua lify in the 1,500 m. Joyner-Kersee,
Flandball
Football
w ho was forced to drop o ut o f the heptathlon
Flockey
co m petition because o f an aggravated ham
Table tennis
string, battles pain to compete in the women's
Tennis
long jum p, capturing a bronze medal, the sixth
medal o f her career.
Wrestling
Yachting
The task o f p ro vid in g medical assistance to
these athletes and th e ir more th an 10,000 fel
low com petitors is the responsibility o f an ex
'-ft-
trao rdina ry team o f nearly 1,000 athletic tra in
ers, as w ell as numerous physicians, medical
technicians, and paramedics. The p o ly c lin ic at
Ballyhoo
O lym pic Village operates 24 hours a day and is
staffed by a team o f 142 doctors and 35 nurses.
ART Station: Harmony
A in 't Easy
Australian Youth Orchestra
and Atlanta Symphony
Youth Orchestra
M edical staff m em ber provides assistance to an
injured photographer.
Bathtub Pirates
Jomandi Productions: Hip 2:
Birth o f the Boom
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Located at Georgia Tech's Student Health Cen
or m agnitude o f medical emergency th a t m ig ht
Com m ittee fo r UNICEF. "As athletes, we can
ter, the c lin ic houses medical records fo r all
occur. Specialists in v irtu a lly every medical area
use our positions as role models as a p la tfo rm
Games participants and offers a fu ll range of
are included among the small arm y o f physi
to change children's lives," says Johann Olav
medical services, in c lu d in g dentistry, gynecol
cians w ho have volunteered th e ir tim e fo r the
Koss, a five-tim e O lym pic m edal-winner in
ogy, inte rn a l m edicine, ophthalm ology, o rth o
Games— from general practitioners to allergists;
speed skating and the spokesperson fo r the
pedics, and radiology, as w ell as a pharmacy. In
dentists; dermatologists; ear, nose, and throat
program. "A ll o f us together can use the sp irit
addition, sports m edicine stations and am bu
specialists; infectious disease specialists; oph
of the O lym pic Games to h rin g hope to or real
lances are located near the fie ld o f play at each
thalm ologists; and surgeons.
Am ong the specialized medical support pro
is b rin g in g much-needed m edicine, im m u niza
grams provided by AGOG is the O lym pic sen
tions, counseling, and educational programs to
sory performance center, a fa c ility in the
nearly 18 m illio n children in w ar-torn regions
O lym pic Village where athletes can have th eir
o f the w orld.
venue to render any aid th a t m ay be needed.
The fin a l operating program includes a net
w ork o f hospitals th a t are prepared to e ffi
cien tly and effectively respond to any kin d of
ize a dream fo r a c h ild ." O lym pic A id -A tla n ta
hearing and sight reflexes tested. The audio
W eigh tlifter Jaroslav Joke!
of Slovakia tests his hearing
response tests enable athletes to see th e ir
reaction and response in the
eardrums on a com puter screen. Audiologists
Olym pic Village.
then measure hearing a b ility and reaction tim e
to recognizable stim uli, such as a starter's gun.
Using each hand and foot, athletes react to
noises hy p un ching buttons, and th e ir reaction
tim e is recorded from the release o f the b u tto n
to the next tim e it is touched.
N ext door, optom etrists perform a far more
îïü fiK a lfa ^
revealing test on vision performance th an the
static vision test w h ic h is m ost often adm inis
tered. "A n athlete's vision is ty p ic a lly more sta
ble at a higher level," says Dr. M ichael Pier,
chief director o f the vision center. " I f 1 test 100
people like me, maybe 5 w ill have exceptional
visual abilities. But if 1 test 100 athletes, 85 w ill
be exceptional."
U n itin g this summer in a s p irit o f peace to
help the m illio n s o f children caught in the
crossfire o f war, O lym pians from around the
w orld have joined the O lym pic Aid Team for
C hildren to advocate O lym pic A id -A tlan ta , a
cooperative effort among AGOG, the U nited
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the US
A
left: Centennial O lym pic
G am es Hanes T-shirt
auctions are held each day
to raise funds for
O lym pic A id -A tla n ta .
right: Five-tim e O lym pic
m ed al-w in n er in speed
skating and O lym p ic-A id
A tlan ta spokesperson
Johann O lav Koss
encourages athletes to
use th eir positions as role
m odels to b en efit children.
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• FA IT H C H O L T • G E O R G E L H O LT
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H O LS T O N • A N N A A H O LT • BE T TY H H O LT • C A R L P H O LT • C Y N T H lA A H O LT • C Y N T H IA K H O L T * D AVID E H O L T * D AVID R H O L T * D IA N E K H O L T * D O N N A B H O LT
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A D R IA N W H O L T Z M A N * C H A D D H O LV E N S T O T • N A N C Y L H O L V E N S T O T * K A T H R YN H O L W IL L * D O N A L D A H O LY F IE L D * D O N N A M H O LY F IE L D * M A R IK A S H O L Z E N D O R F • R AYM O N D M . .w..
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H O N E Y C U T T * J l S E O N H O N G • KELLY A H O N G * M IN O A K H O N G * S E U N G -V O U N H O N G * S H U G U A N G H O N G * SU H Y O U N G H O N G * SU Z I H O N G * * R U TH J H O N IG * C Y N T H IA S HO
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The in ju ry bug finds kayaker H eidi Lehrer,
w ho paddles fo r her island n atio n o f Antigua
W hile injuries bave halted some o f the Games'
and Barbuda. Lehrer w ill have to paddle in
most remarkable athletes, new heroes blossom
pain today in her 500 m singles kayak race be
each day in the com petitions. In the fastest
men's 800 m race in history, w ith four runners
th ough she finishes eighth in her heat, a fu ll
fin ish in g in under 1:43, Vebjorn Rodal becomes
m in ute slower th an the rest o f the field, she
o n ly the second athlete from Norway to w in a
s till qualifies for the repechage.
gold medal in athletics, the previous w in hav
cause o f injuries suffered in an accident. A l
T railing by 13 points going in to the finals of
ing occurred some 40 years ago. Rodal's
the women's 3 m springboard co m p etitio n, the
Olym pic-record tim e o f 1:42.58 is all the more
People's Republic o f China's d iv in g phenom e
remarkable given his unusual tra in in g regimen.
non, M ingxia Fu, overtakes Irina Lashko o f the
t
left: Nico M otchebon of
U nlike most o f his competitors, he often trains
Russian Federation to capture her second gold
Mayweather becomes the first US O lym pic
G erm any congratulates
indoors because o f the long Norwegian winters,
medal o f the Cames. Several days ago, she o u t
boxer to defeat a Cuban boxer since 1976.
and runs back and fo rth in an underground
distanced her nearest com petitor by more than
tu n n e l th a t is o n ly 1,148 ft (350 m) long. In
40 p oints— a huge m argin in an O lym pic d iv
Alexis Rubalcaba o f Cuba meets Tonga's Paea
another historic m om ent, Hezekiel Sepeng be
ing c o m p e titio n — to w in the gold medal in
W olfgram. Rubalcaba's punch packs an incredi
comes the first black South African to w in an
10 m p latform diving, a co m p e titio n she also
ble am ount o f power; in an earlier bout, he h it
O lym pic medal, capturing the silver.
w on at the 1992 Carnes. In yet another first for
his opponent hard enough to knock h im in to a
Atlanta's Cames, Fu becomes the first w om an
since 1960 to w in b o th the p la tfo rm and
backward somersault. In today's match, how
men are credited w ith the same tim e—4:53:56
triple jum p gold medal is awarded to Inessa
—b ut Richard's last spurt o f energy drove him
across the fin ish line just ahead o f Sorensen.
Vebjorn Rodal of Norway,
w h o has just w on the
800 m final.
right: Rulping Ren of the
lands after a triple jum p.
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In athletics com petition, the women's first
In the super heavyweight class o f boxing,
ever O lym pic medal, w hile Rubalcaba w ill fin
ish in seventh place.
Floyd M ayw eather of the US
After 221.9 km (137.9 m i) and five hours,
Lorenzo Aragon— the first
the men's road cycling race comes down to less
than a wheel-length, as Switzerland's Pascal
(righti defeats Cuba's
tim e a US boxer has beaten
a Cuban boxer since 1976.
Richard streaks past Denmark's Rolf Sorensen
at the fin ish line to w in the gold medal. Both
Kravets o f Ukraine on a leap o f 15.3 m (50.2 ft),
springboard events in a single O lym pic Carnes.
ever, the 141 kg (311 lb) W olfgram wins easily.
After his w in, W olfgram says th a t the entire
achieved on her penultim ate attem pt. Though
Just 17 years old, Fu has now w on a to ta l o f
population (90,000) o f his tin y island nation in
"W hen 1 saw tw o laps to go, 1 did n ot th in k 1
short o f the w orld record set at the 1995 W orld
three gold medals in a sport in w h ich no one
the South Pacific fasted and prayed fo r h im
could make it," Richard says. "M y legs did not
Championships, Kravets's performance is ahead
has ever w on more th an four.
today, and th a t he received a good luck mes
feel too good. V ictory was the o nly th in g that
o f the rest o f the field by a quarter o f an inch.
Today, tw o boxing matches— featherw eight
and super heavyweight— capture a great deal
sage by facsimile transm ission from King Taufa
Ahau to spur h im to victory. Later in the Cames,
interested m e." In a m agnanimous gesture,
o f a tte ntio n. In the featherw eight bout, Floyd
Wolfgram w ill capture the silver, Tonga's first-
father, an O lym pic cyclist w ho died when he
Richard dedicates his race to his fa m ily and his
• C H E R V L L H O O D • C H E S T E R L H O O D • D AVID H O O D • D AVID C H O O D • D E B R A A H O O D • G L O R IA L H O O D • M A R S H A M H O O D • M A R T H A T H O O D • Q U A J U L A N H O O D
* S H IR L E Y H O O D • S U S A N E H O O D • W E N D Y M H O O D • C H A R L E S G H O O D JR • R O B E R T H H O O D JR • R O N N IE H O O F • J A M E S J H O O G E R W E R F . F R E D R IC K J
H O O G L A N D • W IL L E M N H O O G S T R A T E N •C H A R L E S W H O O K E R « K R IS T E N F H O O K E R SAT • C A R O L Y N D H O O K S • G A IL G H O O K S «L Y N N H O O K S • M IC H E L L E A H O O K S » T IM O T H Y N H O O K S • W IL L IA M S H O O K S '
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top left: Courtenay Becker-
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was 18, and to Italy's Fabio Casartelli, the 1992
O lym pic gold m edalist w ho died in a cycling
Lindsay Davenport, also o f the US, in the
Up by tw o games, 15-6, 15-5, in w hat appears
women's singles semifinals. As the players meet
to be headed for a three-set m atch v icto ry for
crash in last year's Tour de France.
and shake hands at center court, Davenport
gold medals In previous O lym pic singles com
Yugoslavia, the Brazilian team battles back,
apologizes to her friend and teammate. Later,
w in n in g the next tw o games 15-8, 16-14 to
petitions—the People's Republic o f China's Tap
ing Deng and Jing Chen o f Chinese Taipei—
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tive ly electric as the o nly tw o women to w in
center spread: Pascal
Dey sails her w ay to becom e
tinues its dom inance in archery as Kyung-
she expands, "O n top o f being the biggest
the first US ath lete to w in a
even the m atch and force a fifth and final
W ook Kim wins the women's in d iv id u a l title.
m atch o f m y life so far— going fo r the gold— I
meet in Atlanta's gold medal game. Deng, the
m edal in yachting— a bronze
Her v ic to ry marks the fo u rth consecutive gold
was playing someone w ho 1 never really w ant
to see lose."
game. The m om entum seems to have shifted in
Brazil's favor, b ut the team from Yugoslavia re
1992 O lym pic champion, though o nly 4 ft 8 in
of Denm ark to w in the gold
(1.4 m), is an aggressive and powerful player.
medal in men's road cycling.
in th e Europe class of the
yachting com petition.
medal achieved by Korea in the women's in d i
vidual com petition.
on targ et at the w om en's
At the nearby tennis venue, fans witness a
battle o f friends as the US's M ary Joe Fernandez
individual archery finals.
drops a straight set decision, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6), to
b o tto m /eft; Archers are right
Men's ind oo r volleyball has a new cham pion
in 1996 as a fired-up team from Yugoslavia o u t
lasts the defending 1992 Games cham pion,
Brazil, in a grueling, five-set quarterfinal match.
gains its composure and strikes back, scoring a
15-10 v ic to ry w h ich sends the team to the
sem ifinal round against Italy.
A t the Georgia W orld Congress Center, the
atmosphere in the table tennis venue is posi
Richard of Sw itzerland
pushes past Rolf Sorensen
She takes command from the first point, taking
the first tw o games from her former teammate
and 1988 gold-medal winner, Chen, 21-14 and
21-17. Chen, w ho is attem pting to w in C hi
right: Arantxa Sanchez
Vicario of Spain celebrates
after w inning the
semifinal match in
nese Taipei's first O lym pic gold medal, is deter-
w om en's singles tennis.
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death weighs heavily on his m in d as he goes to
w ork in this critical contest for the gold medal.
The wrestlers battle to a 1-1 tie, b ut in a con
troversial decision, the judge awards Angle the
victory. Jadidi protests vehem ently and files a
form al protest, b ut Angle's v icto ry prevails.
After the v icto ry ceremony, Angle weeps as he
pays a heartfelt tribu te to Schultz, saying,
"Dave has had a big im pact on m y life. That's
w ho 1 was th in k in g about when 1 was up there.
N ow I know w hat he fe lt like when he w on in
1984. He was m y id o l."
Yugoslavia's men's volleyball
3^^
tea m advances to the
sem ifinals, defeating the
defending Olym pic
cham pion tea m from Brazil.
crescendo as the fifth and decisive game gets
under way. C alling on her extraordinary re
serves o f energy and concentration, Deng
charges back, stunning Chen in the fin a l game,
21-5, to w in her second gold in the singles
com petition.
A t the Georgia W orld Congress Center
arena, the US freestyle w restling team is in
spired and saddened by the m em ory o f a
beloved teammate. Team members wear black
bands on th e ir singlets in m em ory o f Dave
Schultz, w ho was k ille d in January. Schultz,
w ho w on a gold medal at the 1984 Olym pics,
aspired to make th is year's team after fin is h
/eft.'The People's Republic of
China's Hong Qiao serves
up to w in a bronze m edal in
the w om en's singles tab le
tennis com petition.
ing fifth at the 1995 W orld C ham pionships.
Emotions are especially intense in freestyler
Kurt Angle o f the US as he steps onto the mat
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to meet the Islamic Republic o f Iran's Abbas Jad id i in the 100 kg (220 lb) w eight class before
top right: Stein Jorgensen
and John M oo ney of th e US
race to qualify for the
sem ifinal of the men's 500 m
kayak doubles com petition.
more than 7,000 vocal fans. Schultz's tragic
b o tto m r ig h t Kendall Cross
of the US trium phs over the
m ined and fights back. Trailing 19-20 in the
Dem ocratic People's
game 21-17 to even the m atch at tw o games
th ird and w hat could be the fin a l game o f the
apiece. The capacity crowd, fille d w ith vocal
m atch, Chen rallies to w in 22-20. Sparked by
supporters fo r both players, cheers almost n o n
her w in in the th ird game, she takes the fo u rth
stop th ro ug h ou t the m atch, rising in a
Republic of Korea's Vong
Sam Ri on his w a y to
w inn ing a gold m edal in
the 57 kg (125.5 lb) class
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I as if to physically in te rtw in e and v isib ly lin k
C u ltiv a tin g dialogue and encouraging frie n d
performance o f Stravinsky's Suite from The
I th e ir ensembles. From the m o u rn fu l tones o f
ship between young role models— heroes and
Firebird (1919 version), a to ur de force fo r any
the clarinet solo th a t opens the performance to
heroines th rough w ho m m illio n s o f others
orchestra. The performers are at the top o f
the fin al, resounding chord at the end o f the
m ay better understand the im portance of
th e ir form , responding to conductor Jere Flint's
last m ovem ent, this young orchestra plays
w o rkin g together tow ard w o rld peace— is an
direction w ith equal measures o f power, grace,
w ith tremendous power, depth, passion, and
in fre q u e n tly publicized b u t essential fu n c tio n
suppleness, and virtuosity. The finale lite ra lly
skill as a single, u n ifie d ensemble.
o f all O lym pic Games, and Atlanta's Games are
shakes the rafters, and the enthralled audience
l y m p ic
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no exception. In this sp irit o f celebrating crosscultural collaboration and understanding, the
responds w ith an explosive, sustained ovation.
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velous young orchestras exchange instrum ents,
falls silent. The Atlanta Sym phony Youth Or
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The capacity audience, overwhelm ed b y the
stu nn ing v irtu o s ity and passionate perfor
mance they have just experienced, leaps to its
feet in an ovation th a t matches w hat they
C ultural O lym piad has b ro ug ht the A tlanta
its place on stage under the d irection o f guest
Sym phony Youth Orchestra, an accomplished
conductor, C hristopher Seaman. The average
ensemble o f Atlanta's brightest and best young
age o f its musicians is a few years senior to
artists, together w ith the Sydney-based Aus
th a t o f its A tlanta colleagues, and the orchestra
tralian Youth Orchestra, an ensemble o f In te r
performs w ith m a tu rity and polish. Their selec
have just experienced. The musicians on stage
n a tio n a lly recognized artistry. Both orchestras
tio n, The M oldau from Smetana's Mâ Vlast, de
hug one another and shake hands; a num ber
have already perform ed in d iv id u a l concerts in
mands fle x ib ility , a wide dynam ic range, and
are m oved to tears. This m emorable occasion
the series w h ich were w ell attended and re
the conveyance o f a real sense o f drama. The
sym bolically passes the cultural torch from
orchestra delivers a m agnificent performance
A tlanta to Sydney. It also demonstrates the
w h ich receives an enthusiastic ovation.
power o f cross-cultural artistic collaboration, a
The A tlan ta Sym phony Youth
Orchestra, tog eth er w ith the
Sydney-based Australian
Youth Orchestra, stuns
th e audience w ith its
passionate perform ance.
ceived positive notice from the press.
Tonight's concert gives each ensemble an
o p p o rtu n ity to perform alone before being
W hen the audience reenters the hall after
/eft. This public artw ork, the
them e upon w h ic h Atlanta's cultural program
Sacrifice o f Isaac, w as
was b u ilt.
installed as p art of the
b ro ug ht together for the exciting finale. The
interm ission, a mega-orchestra o f 230 enthusi
m any fam ilies and young people attending
astic, talented, and com m itted young m usi
this matinee performance are particula rly ani
cians fills every corner o f the stage, m aking a
mated as they take th e ir seats. As the Atlantans
cacophony o f sounds as it warms up to per
one of th e m any w orks of
take the stage and begin to tune, the audience
form Tchaikovsky's F ifth Symphony. As con
art m ade of found objects
ductor C hristopher Seaman makes his way to
In the exhibition Souis
the stage, the concertmasters o f these tw o mar-
Cultural Olym piad.
rig h t:J l\\s w ire sculpture Is
G row n Deep.
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H O R W IT Z • H E L E N H O R W IT Z • L A U R A E H O S B E IN • AN G E UV Y H O S C H • E R IC H O S C H • S U Z A N N E M H O S C H • T IM O T H Y M H O S E A • A LVIN D H O S F O R D • M AGGI H O S H • iS A K O H O S H IN O • L IN D A L H O S IE « J IL L L
H O S K IN S «C A R O L R H O S K IN S O N • E L IZ A B E T H B H O S K IN S O N • H A R R IE T H O S K Y N S -A B R A H A L L • R OGER L H O S L E R • TR E O N H O SLEV • C O U R TN E Y E L IZ A B E T H H O S T • f=AMELA S H O S T • JE F F R E Y D H O S T E R M A N
•A L A N A H O S T E T L E R • TAR A L H O S T E T L E R • A L B E R T C H O S T E TT E R • K A R E N A H O T Z * M A R G O T K H O U C H IN S • R IC H A R D A H O U O E N • C R AIG H O Ü G E N • A M A N D A M H O U G H «A M IT Y M H O U G H « D AVID O H O U G H
• J O H N W H O U G H « L E S L IE S H O U G H « PA LM ER F H O U G H • S H A R O N A H O U G H « R A M O N D A H O U G H T O N « R O B E R T M H O U G H T O N • C A R O L H H O U LE « R AYM O N D J H O U L E « S H A R O N H O U L E « W ALTE R D H O U L E •
B A R B A R A L H O U L IH A N • K E V IN R H O U L IH A N • E T H E L L H O U M A N • J E S S IC A B R O O K H O U P P E R T • J A M E S F H O U R IG A N JR « J O N A T H A N E H O U S C H « A B 8 E Y J H O U S E • A N T W A N H O U S E • C A T H E R IN E A H O U S E •
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1 August 1 9 9 6
F
o r t h e p a s t few days, spectators have
T o d a y ’s
Calendar
gathered at O lym pic Stadium to w atch a th
letics events. Today, a n ticip a tio n is h ig h for
Com petition
the women's and men's 200 m events. O f the
Aquatics— diving
m any facilities designed and b u ilt to accom
modate sports com petitions and athletes for
Archery
the Games and to rem ain as a legacy to the
Athletics
Badminton
c ity afterwards, none are as visible as O lym pic
Baseball
Stadium. A lth ou g h it appears to be permanent
Basketball
in its Games-time, 85,000-seat capacity co nfig
Boxing
uration, O lym pic Stadium w ill be converted
after the Games in to the new 49,714-seat
Equestrian
home o f the A tlanta Braves baseball team.
Football
After the Games, a stadium b u ilt at Clark
Gymnastics— rhythm ic
A tlanta U niversity— one o f tw o hockey stadia
Handball
AGOG b u ilt at the Atlanta U niversity Center
Hockey
Com plex—w ill become the perm anent home
Table tennis
o f the athletics track. This w ill be the first tim e
Tennis
th a t an O lym pic track has been moved after
i» w r
Wrestling
the Games. "O ur selection to receive the actual
The Olympic Stadium track w ill be given to Clark
O lym pic track on w h ich numerous w orld
Atlanta University after the Games as a perm anent
records are expected to be broken is a unique
legacy to the school.
o p p o rtu n ity fo r our in s titu tio n to share in the
State-of-the-art, com puter-controlled lig h tin g
lasting legacy o f the 1996 O lym pic Games,"
system that reduces glare on the water, and a
said Clark Atlanta U niversity President Thomas
W. Cole Jr.
silver-paneled, photovoltaic roo f that generates
A nother im p o rta n t O lym pic legacy, the
Yachting
its own electricity. The m ain com petition pool,
Ballyhoo
ART Station: Harmony A in 't
m agnificent Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, con
w hich holds more than 1 m illio n gal (3.8 m il
lio n 1) o f water, has been equipped w ith a
tains tw o pools, seating for 13,000 spectators, a
movable flo or to adjust water depth, the first
Atlanta Ballet: Drastic Cuts
Easy
and Chorus
Bathtub Pirates and
Frankenstein
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State U niversity im m ediately after the Games.
O lym pic Stadium. In all, more th an 35 m i (56
ACOG's plan has balanced O lym pic needs w ith
km ) o f tem porary fencing is installed around
those o f co m m u n ify partners, thus producing a
and w ith in co m p e titio n and n on co m p e titio n
m eaningful legacy o f oufstanding facilities th a t
venues and sites. Power systems to support
support O lym pic requirements and survive to
broadcasting, tim in g and scoring, com m unica
serve co m m u n ity needs and sports interests.
tions, lig h tin g , and critica l backup systems are
Along w ith these impressive perm anent fa
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provided by 25 M W o f portable generator
cilities, an incredible range o f new specialized
power—enough to lig h t a small city. A d d itio n
facilifies has been created fo r the Games. In
ally, the heat and h u m id ity o f Aflanta sum
all, more th an 2.5 m illio n sq ft (232,500 sq m)
mers also requires the installatio n and fu ll-tim e
o f new construction, b o th perm anent and tem
application o f 1,500 tons (1,361 t) o f portable
porary, has been b u ilt and equipped to support
a ir-co n d itio n in g systems.
top a n d b otto m : Num erous
tem po rary structures w ere
constructed and equipped
to provide support for
A tlanta's Games.
Dorm itories constructed
to house athletes and
officials w ill provide
student housing for
th e Georgia Institute of
Technology and
o f its kin d in tfie US. The water circulation sys
being used in ergonom ic studies. The th ird
tem is the m ost advanced and sophisticated
pool, fo r water polo, is located adjacent to the
available, p ro vid in g the best water conditions
m ain facility. This co nfiguration enabled
fo r athletes and m aking this the fastest pool in
AGOG to place all aquatic events at the same
Atlanta's Games. A considerable p o rtio n o f this
the w orld. The d iv in g pool, w h ich holds
venue fo r the first tim e in O lym pic history.
space was b u ilt to house operations and sup
Georgia State University
700,000 gal (2.65 m illio n 1) o f water, is o u tfit
after the Games.
ted w ith three d iv in g towers and a sparger sys
The eight new dorm itories th a t have been
p ort staff. For example, more th an 520 office
b u ilt to help accommodate the approxim ately
and specialfy trailers— com prising enough
tem th a t blows air bubbles in to the pool to
16,000 O lym pic athletes and officials on fhe
space to house a to w n o f 2,000 people— has
soften landings durin g practice. Georgia Tech
campus o f Georgia Tech w ill fu lfill th e ir long
been provided b y ACOG's construcfion team.
researchers have also installed an electronic
term mission o f p ro vid ing a dd itio na l student
Venues and sites require more than 175,000
sensor plate on the 10 m tow er th a t records
housing for Georgia Tech and nearby Georgia
tem porary seats, 40,000 o f w h ic h are at
the force w ith w h ich divers push o ff the p la t
form . Data collected from the sensor plate is
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H O U S T O N • M A R Y W H O U S T O N • M IC H A E L H O U S T O N • P A U L N H O U S T O N • P H IL IP L H O U S T O N • T E R E S A A H O U S T O N •
T Y R O N E P H O U S T O N • C E C IL IA M H O U S T O N -T O R R E N C E • K A R L J H O U T C H E N S • M IC H A E L D H O U T 2A G E R • L A U R A HOVATTER - Z A N E B H O VA TTE R III • P A M E LA O H O W • JA N F H O W AH • A L E C H IA A H O W AR D
• A L IS A K H O W A R D * A M Y M H O W A R D * BA R R Y L H O W A R D • B E T T Y P H O W A R D • B it LY H O W A R D • B R E N T R H O W A R D • C H A R L E S L H O W A R D • C O L L E E N C H O W A R D • D E IR D R A L H O W A R D • D O N A L D W H O W AR D
• D O N N A C H O W AR D • D O N N A M H O W A R D • D O N N IE R H O W AR D •
H O W AR D • JE A N E T T E S H O W A R D • JE R R Y H O W AR D • J O A N S H
• L E O N A R D H O W AR D • L IN D A H H O W AR D • L IN D A M H O W AR D •
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son set in June on this track durin g the US
o m p e t it io n
O lym pic trials. W hat makes his new m ark even
W hether the m o tiv a tio n for his achievement
was inspired by the the frenzied crowd o f
more incredible is th a t he stumbled o ut o f the
83,000, fhe q u a lify o f the O lym pic Stadium
blocks and fe lt a tw inge in his rig h t ham string
five meters before reaching the fin is h line. The
track, or his desire to become the first m an in
v ic to ry is especially sweet because o n ly four
history to w in the vastly d ifferen t 200 m and
years ago af the Barcelona Games, Johnson
400 m events, M ichael Johnson o f the US joins
failed to make it o ut o f the 200 m semifinals
the pantheon o f O lym pic heroes th is evening
as he sweeps past the field in fhe 200 m fin al
due to illness.
fo w in the gold. He achieves his coveted sec
plishm ents, he is n o t the o n ly O lym pian to
ond gold-m edal victory, setting a w o rld record
complete a 200/400 double on this day.
For all the significance o f Johnson's accom
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Chris Muffins of th e US
o f 19.32 seconds in the process. "The w orld
France's Marie-Jose Perec matches Johnson by
selects th e javelin he
record is a bonus," Johnson says. "The most
w in n in g the women's 200 m to score dual gold
im p o rta n t th in g was m aking history. A lo t o f
m edal victories in the 200 m and 400 m, the
people held a w orld record. I held one before I
came here. Buf nobody else can say they made
second tim e th is double v ic to ry has been
same event at five O lym pic Games. Also the
w inn er o f the silver in the women's 100 m,
O ttey has w on four bronze and tw o silver
history, the first to w in the 200 and 400." The
achieved in women's O lym pic com petition.
The silver medal is w on by M erlene O ttey o f
previous w orld record, 19.66, is a m ark John-
Jamaica, an extraordinary athlete w ho is the
medals during her O lym pic career. Her habit of
fin ish in g in th ird place has earned her the
first runner in h isto ry to reach the finals in the
nickname "Miss Bronze." In a statement o f ca
botto m left: In wom en's
maraderie and O lym pic Spirit, Perec expresses
handball com petition, a
w ill use in the
decathlon com petition.
S£L'
top left: Canada's M ike
Sm ith clears the bar in the
decathlon pole vault as the
Olym pic cauldron burns in
her m ixed feelings abouf beating Ottey, saying.
the background.
Korean team m em ber
dodges a block from Hungry
to help her team w in this
semifinal, game
right: Jamaica's M erlene
O ttey makes a strong start
and captures the silver in
the w om en's 200 m.
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W IL L IA M P H O W A R D • B E R T H A D H O W A R D -B
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A p air o f e xcitin g sem ifinal games on 28
Ju ly sets up th is gold-m edal show dow n. In
one game, the People's Republic o f China's
H aiying Wei scored tw o goals in the fin a l 10
m inutes to iead C hina past Brazil's pow erful
team, 3-2. In the o the r sem ifinal, the A m e ri
cans defeated the w o rld ch am pio n N orw egian
team, 2-1, w ith an overtim e goal chipped in
by late substitute Shannon M acM illa n.
In today's contest, b o th sides run each other
ragged, b ut the US team takes a 2-1 lead on
T iffe ny M ilbrett's goal in the 68*^ m in ute and
holds on to capture the gold medal. Shannon
Fans from th e People's
Republic of China support
M acM illan, w ho was cut from this team in De
th e ir team in th e w om en's
cember b u t w ho successfuily earned her piace
football finals.
back and scored the first Am erican goal says,
I
"O h m y gosh, it's the best feeling in the w orld.
It to ok 90 m inutes to wear these guys dow n."
The level o f physical exertion fo r b o th teams
as they battle fo r the gold is absolute. In the
fin a l m in ute o f the game, M ia Ham m o f the
US, suffering from the extreme physical play
and to ta l exhaustion, is carried from the field
"W he n I passed the fin is h line, I was quite
line just 14.48 seconds behind Busemann to
happy, b u t also inside I was a little b it sad. 1
secure his gold medal and become the first
M ost o f the fans w ho have come to the
th in k you could see on m y face 1 was n o t over
Am erican decathlon cham pion since Bruce
Georgia Dome today have come to w atch the
joyed because 1 admire Merlene a lo t."
Jenner in 1976.
US men's basketball team compete w ith Aus
In a dram atic reversal o f fortune, US decath-
on a stretcher.
In a story th a t hits close to home. Derrick
tralia in one o f tw o sem ifinal men's matches.
Adkins becomes the first A tla ntan to w in an
The o the r sem ifinal also provides e xciting ac
q u a lify fo r the 1992 Games by w in n in g the
O lym pic gold medal in his hom etow n. A grad
tio n , as Yugoslavia and L ithu an ia battle for
gold medal today, scoring 8,824 points over
uate o f Georgia Tech, Adkins w ins the men's
the o p p o rtu n ity to advance to the gold medal
the 10 events. G oing in to the fin a l event,
400 m hurdles in 47.54 to capture a gold
game. In the m ost intense game o f the to u rn a
O'Brien holds a 209 p o in t lead over Germany's
medal. To w in , Adkins defeats his friend and
m ent, Yugoslavia holds L ithu an ia scoreless in
Frank Busemann and needs o n ly to fin is h
rival, Zambia's Samuel Matete. A nother Am eri
w ith in 32 seconds o f Busemann to w in the
can, C alvin Davis, a converted 400 m sprinter
gold. Since the 1,500 m is O'Brien's greatest
w ho ran his first hurdles race in A p ril 1996,
challenge, he pulls out all the stops in this gru
w ins the bronze.
lete Dan O'Brien rebounds from his failure to
eling event, straining to keep up w ith his clos
M eanw hile, the largest crow d ever to
est rival. Inspired by a stadium fu ll o f adoring,
w atch an O lym p ic men's or w om en's fo o tb a ll
cheering fans, he manages to cross the fin ish
m atch— more th a n 76,000 people strong— is
on hand to see one o f the m ost m em orable
gold m edal m atchups in h is to ry as the US
and People's Republic o f China's wom en's
fo o tb a ll teams battle one another d u rin g 90
m inutes o f suspense.
top; Australia's Shane Heal guards the ball from
John Stockton of th e US during th e sem ifinals of
m en's basketball.
b otto m ;Tiffan y M ilb re tt of th e US w om en's football
team and Huilin X ie of the People's Republic of
China vie for the ball in th e finals.
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today's team ju m p in g com petition, for exam
ple, represent Icons fro m Am erican life and
as he defeats China's Jiong Dong 15-12, 15-10.
form a kin d o f "ride across Am erica" fo r the
In the women's gold event, Korea's Soo Hyun
riders. From the Statue o f Liberty water jum p
to the Georgia Peach Oxer and the Hawaiian
Bang continues the dom inant style o f play
th a t has brought her to this fin al match, de
Bamboo double com bination, the variety o f
co lo rful obstacles make this a beautiful event
feating Indonesia's 16-year-old M ia Audina
11-6, 11-7. Bang has n ot lost a game In the
to watch. Germany's Ludger Beerbaum, de
tournam ent, overpowering m any of her oppo
fending 1992 In d ivid u a l ju m p in g gold m edal
nents, even defeating one com petitor 11-0,
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Larsen wears a pair o f 8-year-old "lu cky" shoes
ist, w ith his near-perfect performance aboard
11-0 in a m atch th a t lasted o nly 10 minutes.
fop. The Germ an equestrian
his m o u n t Ratina, leads his team to v icto ry
tea m m em bers show their
ahead o f the US and Brazilian teams, w hich
It is another all-Chinese fin a l in table te n
nis, as 20-year-old Guollang Liu defeats his
/eft. Vumiko Shige of Japan
is elated after w inning the
w om en's double-handed
dinghy w ith team m ate
Alicia Kinoshita.
right: Ireland's Jessica
Chesney rides Diamond
Exchange in the first
round of the team
jum ping com petition.
m edals after w inn ing the
gold in a grueling 12-hour
jum ping com petition.
b o tfo m .T h e Australian
w om en's hockey team
celebrates after defeating
G reat Britain's team to w in
th e gold m edal.
the fin a l 3:22 o f play to hang on fo r a 66-58
w in . The Yugoslavian team members react ju
b ila n tly to th e ir v ic to ry in this sem ifinal game.
M eanwhile, the US defeats Australia 101-73 to
advance to the gold medal game, w ith Charles
Barkley shooting a perfect 7 fo r 7 fro m the
field, scoring 24 points, and p u llin g dow n 11
rebounds.
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take the silver and bronze medals, respec
The Australian women's hockey team, ex
tively, in the grueling, tw o-round, 12-hour
tending th e ir remarkable unbeaten string o f 40
team ju m p in g co m p etitio n. In the m idst of
games, beats an excellent team from Korea 3-1
the lengthy, dem anding co m p etitio n, one o f
to take the gold medal. The D utch team wins
Atlanta's frequent summer thunderstorm s
the bronze, defeating the British team 4-3 on
drops an in c h o f rain in 30 m inutes, drench
penalty strokes after neither team scores d u r
ing com petitors and spectators and forcin g a
delay in the co m p etitio n.
ing regulation play.
The equestrian venue has received rave re
Both men's and women's gold medal bad
views th ro u g h o u t the co m p etitio n from a th
m in to n singles finals offer enthusiastic fans ex
letes, fans, and media. The obstacles used for
trao rdina ry displays o f power and dexterity. In
the men's contest, Denmark's Poul-Erik Hoyer
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In the men's quarterfinals, tied at 112 w ith
Italy's Michele Frangilli, Huish responds to the
Justin Huish of the US takes
archers, Justin Huish from the US is an
O lym pian w ho emerges from the shadows to
strike gold. In a streak o f consistently superior
challenge by h ittin g consecutive center bull'seyes to press past Frangilli in to the semifinals.
archery quarterfinals.
team m ate Tao Wang, 28, to w in the men's
performances, the ponytailed, reversed baseball-
singles cham pio nsh ip in a five-set m atch on
The young archer then defeats Paul Vermeiren
capped archer from C alifornia gives his com
th is fin a l day o f table tennis c o m p e titio n . The
petitors a lesson as he advances through the
capstone o f an incredible string o f victories,
o f Belgium by nine points in the semifinal and
edges Magnus Petersson o f Sweden by five
quarterfinals to the semifinals and u ltim ately
wins the gold medal.
o f the most surprising finishes o f the Games.
Liu's w in brings China's m edal to ta l to eight:
golds in all 4 singles and doubles co m p eti
aim in the men's individual
points in the final to capture the gold in one
tions, 3 silvers, and 1 bronze, a level o f d o m i
nance v irtu a lly unequaled by any c o u n try in
any sport.
left: Jiong Dong of th e People's Republic of China
hits an overhead smash in th e men's badm inton
singles final.
top right: G uoliang Liu of th e People's Republic of
China concentrates on w inn ing th e m en's tab le
tennis final.
b o tto m right: Spectators enjoy th e action in the
all-Korean m ixed doubles finals in badm inton.
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ence o f 3.5 b illio n people, easily the largest au
m agnificent Sym phony no. 2, "The Resurrec
tio n ." Mahler's masterpiece is a fittin g close to
The Atlanta Sym phony Orchestra has been an
dience ever to see an orchestra perform . The
the O lym pic Arts Festival's classical music se
im p o rta n t and featured ensemble th ro ug h ou t
orchestra's earlier performances in the O lym pic
ries. Enhancing today's performance is mezzo-
ACOG's four-year C ultural O lym piad. D uring
Arts Festival have already received hig h marks
soprano Jennifer Larmore, a native o f nearby
this O lym pic period, beginning w ith the first
from critics.
Today's perform ance is especially im p o rta n t
Marietfa, Georgia, and one o f the hottest new
to the orchestra and its noted musical director,
o f exfraordinary depth, w arm th, range, and
Yoel Levi. Along w ith the A tlanta Sym phony
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event presented by the C ultural O lym piad in
February 1993, the A tlanta Sym phony Orches
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perform ance th a t brings the
pecially visible representative o f Atlanta's arts
Orchestra Chorus, a pow erful, polished ensem
classical music series
com m unity. As the orchestra on the stadium
ble th a t is among America's finest sym phonic
complements Larmore's beautifully.
field fh ro u g h o u t the O pening Cerem ony o f
choruses, the orchestra performs Mahler's
to a fittin g close.
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inte rn a tio n a l opera stars. Larmore has a voice
power. She is joined by soprano Margaret Jane
Wray, another gifted rising star whose voice
Sym phony Orchestra in a
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Levi's performance embraces and co m m u n i
cates the vastness o f Mahler's musical architec
ture and the depth o f th is great work's spiritual
content. The chorus performs w ith clarity,
w arm th, and an u ncom m on energy th a t brings
the piece to its overw helm ing conclusion. The
co m m itm e nt o f and outstanding performance
by fhis giffed, hom etow n ensemble are re
warded w ith an especially vocal and sustained
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response from the near-capacity audience.
The A tlanta Ballet is the oldest regional bal
let com pany in the US. Under the company's
new artistic director, John McFall, the Atlanta
Ballet has focused its artistic m ission and cap
tured audiences w ith its energy and artistic
quality. The fin a l program o f its O lym pic Arts
Festival dance series showcases the company's
contem porary repertoire. Read M y Hips is a
flashy, electric w ork th a t is young in spirit, ac
curately reflecting the soul o f Aflanta. The
gifted and celebrated American choreographer
David Parsons contributes an astonishing and
fascinating work. Caught, a dance th a t uses
strobe lights to create the effect th a t the solo
male dancer is c o n tin u a lly suspended in space.
The electronic music th a t accompanies the
choreography adds to the o th e rw o rld ly q uality
o f fhe piece, w h ic h elicits an overw helm ing re
sponse from the audience fo r the athleticism
and gymnastic co ntrol o f the dancer. Yellow
tailed Dogs, a w ork commissioned by the
A tlanta Ballet fo r performance during fhe
O lym pic Arts Festival combines text, music,
M ezzo-soprano Jennifer
theater, visual effects, and unusual choreogra
Larmore, a Georgia native,
phy to create a m ixed-m edia whole. Follow ing
performs w ith the Atlanta
Sym phony Orchestra.
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• B O B H U F F • C A R L T O N H U F F * C H R !S P H U F F * C O R N E L IA C H U F F • D A R L E N G H U F F • IV Y S H U F F • LA R RY R H U F F • M AR Y B H U F F • M ARY E H U F F » N A N C Y J H U F F * W IL L IA M H H U F F • W IL L IA M J H U F F • R O SA
M H U F F E R • G E R A L D H H U F F M A N • S U Z A N N E L H U F F M A N « W IL L H U F F M A N • T H O M A S M H U F F M A N JR • L IN D A J H U F F M Y E R A T C • M ATT W H U F F O R D • F R A N K R H U F F S C H M ID T • J O A N L H U F F S T E T L E R •
M IC H A E L J H U F N A G E L • D W IG H T M A U R IC E H U G G E T • D AVID H U G G IN S ♦ D E B O R A H L H U G G IN S • J A C K B H U G G IN S « J O H N E H U G G IN S • K IM B E R LY J H U G G IN S • L IS A P H U G G IN S • M AR G AR ET S H U G G IN S •
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H U G H E S « C H R IS T O P H E R L H U G H E S • D A N N Y R H U G H E S • D A R R E L L R H U G H E S • D A V ID G H U G H E S • D E B R A E H U G H E S • D O R IS H U G H E S • D W A Y N E S H U G H E S • D W IG H T H U G H E S • EM M A U H U G H E S •
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perform s Hip 2: Birth o f
the Boom , an extraordinary
to u r de force by tfie
com pany's artistic director,
Thom as W. Jones II, to a
capacity audience.
b o tto m a n d opposite page:
The A tlan ta Ballet presents
th e dance technology
project. Drastic Cuts, the
result of a collaborative
effort w ith Georgia Tech.
the paths o f three characters from the early
1800s to 1996, the piece weaves a com plex se
ries o f images and ideas in to a cohesive w ork
th a t moves from quiet, reflective, and poetic
m om ents to abrasive urban outbursts. A u d i
ence reaction is tempered enthusiasm, b u t the
w ork has the im pact choreographer David
Roussève desired: th a t is, insp irin g the audi
ence to th in k about the m eaning o f the w ork
and react to more th an just the q u a lity o f the
choreography and physical performance.
The fin a l piece is a stu nn ing ly beautiful,
evocative w ork set in ffeaven. W ritte n as a
lam ent fo r a lost frien d by choreographer Lila
York, Rapture combines a superb ensemble,
captivating choreography, and the larghetto
from Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no. 5 to pro
duce an ethereal, reverent atmosphere. The au
dience, clearly moved by this remarkable fin
ish, is suspended in reflection rather than
roused to tum ultuous applause.
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Spectators find creative ways to fend off Atlanta's
hot sum m er weather.
and Harmony A in 't Easy
Bid process, has fo rtun ate ly been m ilder than
and appropriate attention to all heat-related
anticipated, especially during this second week
problems. M isting stations, roller-skating "heat
of com petition. Preparing for the anticipated
busters" carrying portable sprayers. Salvation
heat has been an integral part o f ACOG's plan
Arm y water canteens at venues and parking
nin g from the organization's earliest days. Pro
lots. Red Cross tents equipped w ith first-aid
Bathtub Pirates and
v id in g proper support and facilities to service
supplies, roving medical teams at outdoor
Frankenstein
athletes, spectators, and staff has occupied vari
venues, and hundreds of thousands o f gallons
ous AGOG departments and teams o f people,
of free water at O lym pic venues and other key
in c lu d in g the medical advisory com m ittee and
locations w ith in the O lym pic Ring keep the ef
com p etitio n venue operations.
fects o f fhe heat at bay. A fleet of emergency
W h ile some press coverage during the first
days o f the Games dubs spectators "southern
and Chorus
Birth o f the Boom
Sm ithsonian Jazz
Masterworks Orchestra
vehicles, including several specially equipped
golf carts, provide additional safety precautions.
fried fans," the decision to plan fo r the most
extreme possibilities has allowed for prom pt
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in numerous air-conditioned tents and other
portable structures and trailers located th ro u g h
out the O lym pic Ring, p ro vid ing another level
o f relief.
If all attempts to keep cool fail, spectators
can go to the Fountain o f Rings and large re
flecting pool in C entennial O lym pic Park.
These places attract tens o f thousands o f peo
ple, day and n ig h t, w ho stand, sit, or lie in the
water to cool off.
The weather cooperates fo r the m ost part,
and ACOG's preparations prove judicious.
C oping w ith the h o t weather sim ply becomes
Centennial O lym pic Park
visitors cool off in
k
an integral part o f the O lym pic experience.
th e reflecting pool.
C o m p e t it io n
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On the baseball diam ond, few teams have
been able to th w a rt the awesome power and
depth o f the Cuban team. Today, cem enting its
place as the to p team in amateur baseball,
Cuba downs the Japanese, 13-9, to capture the
gold medal. Cuba's th ird baseman, Omar
top: Cuba's pitcher Pedro
Luis Lazo and catcher Juan
M anrique celebrate after
th e ir tea m w in s th e gold
medal in baseball.
Linares, slugs three home runs and drives in
six runs to lead Cuba's onslaught. Linares fin
botto m : David Pichler of the
ishes the to urnam ent w ith a .476 b attin g aver
US com petes in the
age after h ittin g a to ta l o f eight hom e runs and
men's 10 m platform
d riv in g in 16 runs. The Americans score a 10-3
diving com petition.
v ic to ry over Nicaragua to capture the bronze.
This has been Nicaragua's best O lym pic perfor
mance in any sport, im p ro vin g on an 11*^
place fin is h achieved by a w e ig h tlifte r in the
1992 Games.
A few miles n o rth at the Georgia W orld
Congress Center, Bulgaria's V alentin D im itro v
Jordanov, a 52 kg (114.5 lb) freestyle wrestler,
is on his way to capturing his first O lym pic
gold medal, scoring a controversial takedown
to w in 4-3 in overtim e over Azerbaijan's
Athletes, spectators, and staff have also
from them , and thousands o f handheld fans,
N am ik Abdullayev before a capacity crowd of
made th e ir own preparations, know ing that
like those tra d itio n a lly used in the South be
more th a n 7,000. The w in gives Jordanov 12
the h o t weather w ould very lik e ly be a chal
fore a ir-co n d itio n in g was available.
w orld and O lym pic medals, in c lu d in g seven
lenge. M ost spectators are w ell prepared to
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Hundreds o f thousands o f pounds o f ice—
w orld titles. Reacting to w hat he perceives as
brave the weather. They are armed w ith c h ill
a m o un ting to an expected to ta l o f several m il
an u n ju st call, Abdullayev refuses to shake o ffi
packs, water bottles, canteens, wet "necker
lio n tons d u rin g the Games— are needed to
cials' hands at the end o f the m atch.
chiefs," sunscreen, hats o f every possible de
service each day's vast rate o f ice consum p
scription, in c lu d in g some w ith personalized
tio n . That m ost prized c o m m o d ity o f all, air-
electric fans m ounted on top o f or suspended
c o n d itio n in g , is p le n tifu l in b uilding s and also
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o f form are s tric tly enforced. W in n in g the gold
The O lym pic record is broken again and again
US super heavyweight and tw o -tim e goldm e d a l-w in n in g wrestler Bruce Baumgartner
medal at the C entennial O lym pic Games is an
th ro u g h o u t the co m p etitio n. In the end, three
e xhilarating experience fo r this gifted and de
vaulters clear 5.92 m (19.42 ft), a centim eter
earns a bronze medal. His w in n in g s n ow in
clude 13 w o rld or O lym pic medals, surpassing
term ined O lym pian.
H aving already w on the gold in the
better th an Bubka's previous record. The tie
the record o f Jordanov and long-standing So
women's 5,000 m, Junxia Wang o f the People's
Galfione, w ho has missed the fewest attempts
viet hero, Alexander Medved.
Republic o f C hina seems on her way to an u n
d urin g the event, captures the gold, w hile Rus
precedented second w in in distance racing, as
sia's Igor Trandenkov and Germany's Andrei
O lym pic Stadium, where the attendance figures
she heads in to the lead o f the 10,000 m race.
T iv o n tch ik take silver and bronze, respectively.
fo r today's tw o sessions are over the 1 m illio n
But Portugal's Fernanda Ribeiro— the w orld-
mark. W ith another day o f co m p etitio n s till to
record holder in the shorter, faster 5,000 m dis
draw from the h u n t for gold is somewhaf
w inning long jum p to
come, the athletics attendance at Atlanta's
tance w ho chose to race o n ly in the 10,000 m
abated by his election to the IOC Athletes
earn a gold medal.
Capacity crowds continue to be the n orm at
left: Bruce B aum gartner of
among three vaulters means th a t France's Jean
left: Participants in the
men's 50 km race w alk press
tow ard the finish line.
Bubka's disappointm ent in having to w ith
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50 km race w alk.
Games w ill exceed the records set in M elbourne
and Los Angeles and stand as the largest audi
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ences to witness athletics co m p etitio n in
O lym pic history.
Fan support is also evident today in the
streets o f Atlanta, as crowds gather to w atch
the men's 50 km race w alk event, w on by
Poland's Robert Korzeniow ski. " I d o n 't th in k I
could have been better," said Korzeniow ski o f
his perform ance. "1 d id n 't make any mistakes,
and I d id n 't die! It was the best race o f m y
life ." Indeed, Korzeniowski's perform ance fhis
tim e -o u t is alm ost perfect, as the 1996 goldm edal w in n e r completes the dem anding
course in 3:43:30, overcom ing a devastating
d is q u a lific a tio n in Barcelona after he entered
the stadium in the lead fo r the fin a l kilom eter.
He m et the same fate and d isa p p o in tm e n t at
the 1993 W o rld C ham pionships, where he re
in the Games— foils Wang's attem pt by out-
ceived a th ird "red card" (tw o are allowed
s p rin tin g her in the fin a l meters, w in n in g the
each runner) in th is sport in w h ic h the rules
race in an O lym pic-record tim e o f 31:01.63
seconds. Wang finishes less th an one second
b eh in d Ribeiro to take the silver medal.
W ith w orld-record h olde r Sergey Bubka o f
U kraine forced to w ith d ra w fro m the pole
v a u lt event, the fie ld is le ft co m pletely open.
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vo lle yba ll captain Bob C tv rtlik , Algeria's m id
eight assists, powers back in the second h a lf to
dle distance runner ffassiba Boulmerka, and
w in the game.
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In the other women's basketball semifinal, a
rower Roland Baar o f Germany.
In a sem ifinal contest between the US and
co nfid en t team from Brazil earns the rig h t to
Australian women's basketball teams before a
oppose the US in the gold-m edal game by
huge crowd o f 32,000 in the Georgia Dome,
h a n d ily defeating Ukraine's team, 80-61.
the US team, w h ich trailed by as m any as eight
The Australian men's tennis doubles team o f
points in the first half, u ltim a te ly wins, 9 3 -7 f,
M ark W oodforde and Todd W oodbridge defeats
to earn a spot in the gold-medal game. Aus
N eil Broad and T im Henm an o f Great Britain
tralia's M ichele Timm s turns in an outstanding
to capture the gold medal. Lindsay Davenport
2 7-point game in the loss, b u t the US, led by
o f the US trium ph s over Spain's Arantxa
Lisa Leslie's 22 points and Teresa Edwards's
Sanchez Vicario in today's women's singles
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the athlete w ith the highest num ber o f votes
Angelica Gonçalves da Silva
in the special election, in w h ic h o n ly athletes
after Brazil's sem ifinal w in in
w om en's basketball.
in the O lym pic Village vote. This h o n o r is also
extended to six other h ig h ly respected and
center spread: Spain's
popular athletes: sw im m er Aleksander Popov
rhythm ic gym nastics
of the Russian Federation, the Czech Repub
team gives a spectacular
perform ance w hich garners
lic's ja ve lin -throw e r Jan Zelezny, runner Charm aine Crooks o f Canada, Am erican in d o o r
the gold m edal.
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capacity crowds.
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archery tea m from the
D em ocratic People's
Republic of Korea w in s the
gold medal.
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R IC H A R D A H U N T E R • R O B E R T E H U N T E R • S H E IL A A H U N T E R • S T E P H E N A H U N T E R • ST U A R T L H U N T E R • T H O M A S N H U N T E R • T IF F A N Y E H U N T E R ♦ TO N YA S H U N T E R • T R E C IN IA T H U N T E R • T R IC IA K
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MARY F H U R D • P A T R IA N N E H U R D • SARAH S H U R D • M IC H E L L E H H U R E W IT Z • D O IN A P H U R G O I • G O R D O N C H U R L B E R T A T C • S T E W A R T A H U R L B U R T • RYAN H U R L B U T • B R E N D A K H U R L E Y • B R IA N P H U R LE Y
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D E T R IC H J H U R S T • F R A N C E S L H U R S T • G A LE N H U R S T • GARY R H U R S T • M IC H A E L G H U R S T ♦ T O R Y E W H U R S T • D O U G L A S A H U R S T E L L • C A T H E R IN E L H U R S T O N • JU A N IT A C H U R T • T O N Y O H U R T •
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defeats M ary Joe Fernandez o f ftie US 7-6
(8-6), 6-4 to become the first Czech Republic
w om an to w in an O lym pic medal.
Meanwhile, Spanish athletes achieve an ex
traordinary upset, edging the heavily favored
Bulgarian rh y th m ic gymnastics team by just
.067 o f a p o in t to capture the team gold medal
in the team event's O lym pic debut.
In the men's hockey finals, Spain's team
gives the Netherlands' team a m ig h ty battle
before losing 3-1 in fro n t o f nearly 14,000
frenzied fans at M orris Brown College. Spain is
fo p .T h e G erm an yachting
actually leading the m atch 1-0 w hen the fa
tea m of Jochen Schuem ann,
vored D utch squad comes from behind and
T hom as Flach, and Bernd
pumps in a flu rry o f goals to post the gold-
Jaekel celebrates after
w inn ing th e gold m edal In
m e d a l-w in n in g victory.
th e soling class.
A t the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, the US
synchronized sw im m ing team earns all perfect
b otto m : Costars Arnold
10s, the first perfect score in inte rn a tio n a l syn
Schw arzenegger and
chronized sw im m ing com petition, in an awe
Vanessa W illiam s visit the
insp irin g display o f talent. They capture the
O lym pic Village for the
prem ier of the m ovie Eraser.
top: Jan Hem pel of Germ any
(silver), D m itri Saoutine of
Later, China's hopes fo r a clean sweep in all
th e Russian Federation
d iv in g events are dashed as Russia's D m itri
(gold), and Hailiang Xiao of
Saoutine captures the gold in the men's p la t
th e People's Republic of
China (bronze) acknow ledge
form event ahead o f Germany's Jan Hempel
th e crow d during the medal
and H ailiang Xiao o f China.
Today, co m p etitio n concludes at the yacht
cerem ony for th e men's 10 m
platform diving event.
ing venue in Savannah, where Germany wins
the soling class w ith Russia and the US, taking
b o fto m .T h e US
hom e the silver and bronze respectively. D ur
synchronized sw im m ing
team earns all perfect 10s
ing the course o f the wide-open com petition,
to w in th e gold.
22 d ifferent countries garner O lym pic medals.
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H ollyw ood superstar A rnold Schwarzenegger is
in Atlanta this evening to host the w orld pre
miere o f his newest th riller. Eraser, presented to
O lym pic athletes on a four-story screen at
Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium. "I was a
com petitive athlete before becom ing an actor,
gold-m edal match, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2. Reflecting
first-ever team gold medal in this event, w hile
so I am p articularly proud to have the world's
band Goo Goo Dolls performs a high-energy
greatest athletes as special guests for this pre
segment before the m ovie begins. Mexican
m iere," says Schwarzenegger. He is joined on
swimm er Carlos Arena says, "It's cool to th in k
on her w in, Davenport says, "T hat was defi
the Canadian team earns the silver medal and
stage p rio r to the movie's start by costars
th a t an athlete like A rnold w ould choose the
n ite ly the most proud I've ever been in m y
Japan wins the bronze.
Vanessa W illiam s and James Caan. The pop
Village for his premiere," a sentim ent echoed
life, n o t o n ly fo r myself, b ut fo r m y country."
In the bronze-m edal m atch, Jana N ovotna
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H U T C H IN S • G IN G E R S H U T C H IN S • JO Y C E M H U T C H IN S • L IN D A R H U T C H IN S • M IC H A E L V H U T C H IN S • R U TH A H U T C H IN S • S H A N A K H U T C H IN S • B O N N IE S H U T C H IN S O N • D O U G LA S P H U T C H IN S O N •
G E N E L H U T C H IN S O N • G E O R G E B H U T C H IN S O N • G E R A L D F H U T C H IN S O N • H A R R Y B H U T C H IN S O N • J A S O N B H U T C H IN S O N • J IL L E H U T C H IN S O N • J O A N M H U T C H IN S O N • J O H N P H U T C H IN S O N •
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by thousands o f his fellow athletes as they
tiv ity o f a wide range o f gifted photographers,
cheer th e ir appreciation for the world-famous
both named and anonymous, the e x h ib itio n
A t the very beginning o f the H igh Museum
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the C iv il War th ro ug h Reconstruction, the be
o f Art's marvelous photographic essay on the
ginnings o f urbanization, and the c iv il rights
Am erican South, Picturing the South, 1860-
clashes o f the 1950s and 1960s to the present.
Present, visitors encounter a small, p ro fo u n d ly
The series o f more th an 100 images reveals
to u ch in g p o rtra it o f a female slave taken in
m ajor themes and concepts and explores the
1860. The w om an stares intensely, loo king d i
inn er struggles and trium ph s o f individuals.
M astsrw orks Orchestra
rectly in to the camera and draw ing the viewer
Some photographs are familiar, especially
perform s at A tlan ta
in to th is deeply m oving photograph and in to
those o f the civ il rights leader Reverend M artin
the e x h ib itio n .
Luther King Jr. and his colleagues. Others are
Sym phony Hall.
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follow s the South from the conflagration o f
actor and bodybuilder.
The Sm ithsonian Jazz
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top: John Ludwig presents a
n ew adaptation of M ary
Shelley's Frankenstein at the
Center for Puppetry Arts.
b o tto m .T h e High M useum
of A rt w as one of the
best attended cultural
venues during the
Olym pic Arts Festival.
Center fo r Puppetry Arts a nn ua lly performs for
more th an 1 m illio n people at its home in a
converted elem entary school b uilding . W ith
tw o theaters, in c lu d in g a 350-seat aud itorium
for child re n and a 35-seat theater fo r adult au
diences, a workshop, classrooms, a marvelous
museum, and a special space in w h ic h to ex
h ib it traveling and tem porary shows o f all
kinds, the center is active nearly every day o f
the year. W h ile the center's audiences are p ri
m a rily children, productions fo r older audi
ences are also offered.
Puppetry is a tim e-honored tra d itio n and
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art fo rm th a t appears in v irtu a lly every culture.
^ As the current headquarters fo r the internaI tio n a l puppetry m ovement, Atlanta's Center
^ for Puppetry Arts is perhaps kn ow n even better
This beautiful e x h ib itio n is the result o f ex
shocking, and still others are subtle and
i in te rn a tio n a lly th a n it is in its ow n com m u
haustive research and a painstaking curatorial
thought-provoking. The juxtaposition o f im
nity. But w ith hundreds o f thousands o f young
approach. It weaves together several overarch
ages, content, and themes has a significant cu
people and th e ir parents v is itin g the center on
the C ultural O lym piad to create a new w ork for
ing themes to provide a penetrating vision o f
m ulative impact on the viewer, an impact
a regular basis th ro u g h o u t the year, it has be
the 1996 O lym pic Arts Festival, Ludwig elected
w hich is fu lly realized o nly after com pleting a
come one o f the m ost popular cultural destina
to tackle the tale o f Frankenstein. Because it w ill
tions in Atlanta.
be perform ed in the tin y theater fo r adult audi
the evolutio n o f the Am erican South from the
beginning o f the C iv il War to the present.
circuit through the entire exhibition. W hile
T hrough the discerning eye and aesthetic sensi-
each photograph stands on its own as a w ork of
Am ong the most distinguished and cele
depth and quality, one is left at the end w ith a
brated creative forces in the w orld o f contem
distinct impression o f the e xhibitio n as a whole.
porary puppetry is the center's renowned cre
Frankenstein is fille d w ith special effects and
ative genius, John Ludwig. Com m issioned by
gallows hum or, b o th noted Ludwig specialties.
Am ong Atlanta's most p ro m in en t, creative,
and innovative cultural institutio ns, the
ences, a ticket to Frankenstein is among the
most d iffic u lt festival tickets to obtain.
His puppets are astonishing in th e ir quality,
and the p roduction glows w ith o rig in a lity and
w it. Audience reaction is universally positive.
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" finals in a num ber o f team sports— men's
football and basketball and women's volleyball
Com petition
and handball. The atmosphere o f excitem ent
Athletics
and festivity th a t dominates the com petition
Basketball
venues th a t host these, as w ell as other, sports
Boxing
is enhanced by coordinated decorations and
signage. These elements, know n as Atlanta's
Cycling— road
Look o f the Games, appear th ro ug h ou t all areas
o f O lym pic activity.
Equestrian
Football
Creating and im p le m e n tin g th is graphic de
sign system was an in c re d ib ly com plex task
Handball
th a t occupied a focused staff fo r more than
Tennis
three years. A team o f design firm s was re
sponsible fo r designing fhe m any com ponents
th a t give A tlanta its unique and d istin ctive
Look. This team worked to develop a Look
The Quilt of Leaves, centerpiece of ACOG's Look of the
th a t w o u ld express hospitality, friendship, and
Games, expresses hospitality, friendship, and unity.
Blues fo r an A la b a m a '^ky
and The Last N ig h t o f ’'
the c ity o f Atlanta's ambiance. The Look ele
for every co m p e titio n and n o n co m p e titio n
ments defined by these teams radiated from
facility, and parking lo t and o the r transporta
the central sym bol o f the Q u ilt o f Leaves and
tion-related signs. In all, hundreds o f in d iv id
the central color— the deep, rich Georgia
ual designs— variations on the p rim a ry logo
green. The lis t o f com ponents th a t were de
and them atic elements and color palettes—
signed and produced in keeping w ith the Look
were designed and fabricated.
is staggering. It includes b uttons and pins, ex
Packaging the m u ltip le ind ivid ua l com po
te rio r bus wraps, more th a n 14,000 banners
nents required to support each o f hundreds of
ranging in size from 2 x 6 ft (.61 x 1.83 m) to
previously identifie d locations and organizing
the installation o f the packages according to a
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Ballyhoo
Center fo r Puppetry Arts:
Bathtub Pirates and
Frankenstein
Birth o f the Boom
D AVID H Y M A N • R A N D Y E H Y M A N • C A R O L Y N A H YM ES • S E A N H Y N E S . PEGGY M H Y N O T E • B R A D L E Y C H Y R E • R A N D A L M H Y R E • W E S L E Y H Y R E • J A M A L H YSA W • A L IC IA J H Y S IN G E R • S T E P H A N IE lA C O N O •
JA M E S W lA M S •J O S E P H P lA N D O L l • A N D R E W J IB B O T S O N • C H U K S N IB E K W E • O Z O E M E N A O IB E Z U E • K A D ID J A IB N -IA H O U C IN E • A B D U L IB R A H IM • N A D E E R IB R A H IM • L IN D A G IB S E N • N IC O L E IC E •
S T A N L E Y R IC E • M IC H E L L E L IC E N O G L E • Y U M IK O IC H IS E • D IA N E S ID E • L O G A N ID E • L U C IE N N E M ID E • A L E X ID IC H A N D Y • K IM B E R L Y lE M M A • F R E D E R IC K C IF F L A N D • S T E V E N J IG A R A S H I •
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celebrate athletic achievement and convey the
personal q u a lity o f the South, Atlanta's p ic
venues during the 13 days o f com petition—
tograms em ploy the hum an fo rm fo r the first
more than twice the total attendance for fo o t
ball com petition at the 1992 Games. The men's
banners, flags, and signs, the Look design
tim e at a m odern O lym pic Games. These p ic
tograms are used on signage as w a yfin d in g de
team also incorporated a wide array o f supple
vices to help spectators w ho speak any lan
th rillin g games, as 86,100 fans watch a deter
m ental plants and trees at hundreds o f Games
guage fin d th e ir venue destinations.
m ined Nigerian team achieve a controversial
emblazoned w ith Look elements and used to
wrap platform s and fences and other large ob
stacles— is an enormous undertaking.
In a d d itio n to fabric com ponents such as
locations to enhance walkways, plazas, and
other gathering places. The key Look element,
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than 1 m illio n fans have filled the five football
gold-medal m atch continues the trend of
3-2 v icto ry over Argentina.
C
o m p e t it io n
The controversy erupts in the 8 9 * m in ute
leaves, was translated in to 128 tractor loads o f
p la n t materials, in c lu d in g 632 shade trees,
Today marks the finale o f the most popular
m idfielder, Em m anuel A m unike, offside as be
1,077 crepe m yrtle trees, 1,133 planter pots.
O lym pic football tournam ent in history. More
scores the go-ahead and w in n in g goal. The
o f p lay w hen the referee fails to call Nigeria's
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and more th a n 150,000 lb (68,000 kg) o f w ild flow er seed. Once installed, these plants need
to be watered and m aintained. A team o f 65
people use eight water trucks to distribute
more th a n 200,000 gal (757,080 1) o f water
each day, prune and trim as necessary, and
even replant. As they go about th e ir work, this
team o f unsung heroes become im p o rta n t am
bassadors, spreading southern h o s p ita lity and
left: Hundreds of variations
precise schedule was an awesome task that re
of th e Look are used on the
quired m onths o f detailed planning. Allowances
teaching O lym pic visitors som ething about the
native h o rticu ltu re o f th is lush region.
banners th a t hang at the
for breakage, theft, and other possible problems
Am ong visual elements Games organizers
com petition venues and
th a t could arise during the Games m eant that
throu gh ou t A tlan ta.
right: Five intersecting
circles of flow ers represent
the O lym pic Rings at the
equestrian jum ping course.
supplemental components had to be ready in
case they were needed.
A team o f people checks every Look installa
tio n each day and n ig h t to ensure th a t all in
stalled components rem ain intact, clean, and
m ust develop fo r each O lym pic Games is a sys
tem o f unique icons th a t id e n tify each o f the
26 sport disciplines. Called pictograms, these
im p o rta n t components o f the Look are de
signed w ith care and are subject to review by
Pictograms of the sport(s|
the IOC. In keeping w ith its co m m itm e nt to
being com peted decorate
attractive. The size o f this task is m onum ental;
each com petition venue.
inspecting and m aintain in g the fence covering
alone— more than 80,000 ft (25,000 m) o f fabric
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S IN C O R V A IA • H O LL Y A IN C O R V A IA • A N N W IN D E R B IT Z IN • R O B E R T O C IN F A N T E • H E A T H E R A IN F A N T R Y • M E L A N IE R IN F IN G E R • F R A N C IS A IN G A L S B E • M A R G A R E T A IN G A L S B E • W IL L IA M E IN G A L S B E i l l
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in fla m e d Argentines swarm the referee and
q u ic k ly dedicates his medal to the cause of
and h aving a baby kept her o ut o f co m p eti
dem and the offside call, b u t the referee holds
peace in his tin y African hom eland, w h ic h is
tio n . As she leads an extraordinary fie ld o f
firm and the score stands. The N igerian team
presently engulfed in c iv il war.
com petitors, it is clear th a t she has regained
members, whose style o f play is more offense-
Bulgaria's 1995 defending w o rld cham pion
her w in n in g form .
o riented th a n the tra d itio n a l defensive style
h ig h jum per, Stefka Kostadinova, sets a new
o f fo o tb a ll played in countries like Argentina
O lym pic record on her way to the gold medal,
w in n e r since 1924, the Czech Republic's Jan
and Italy, w in the A frican co n tin e n t's first
tu rn in g in an incredible leap o f 2.05 m (6.73
Zelezny outdistances his co m petition w ith a
O lym p ic m edal in fo o tb a ll co m p e titio n .
ft) in one o f the greatest wom en's h ig h jum p
th ro w o f 88.16 m (289.24 ft). Zelezny's rocket
com petitions ever, w ith more w om en clearing
like th ro w attracts the attention o f professional
Today, before 83,300 fans—the largest crowd
1.93 m (6.33 ft) and 2.01 m (6.59 ft) th a n ever
baseball scouts and fans alike.
to w atch any o f the athletics sessions o f the
before. Kostadinova was the w orld's top hig h
Games—the Canadian men's 4 x 100 m relay
jum per in the 1980s u n til breaking her fo o t
The crowds also flock to O lym pic Stadium.
The first m an to repeat as javelin gold-medal
There are some surprises in the course o f the
US men's basketball team's 95-69 gold-medal
A tlan ta native G w en
Torrence anchors the US
w om en's 4 x 100 m relay
and captures gold.
team defies h isto ry by surpassing the US to
capture the gold medal. Anchored by Donovan
Bailey, the Canadian team sets a blistering pace
and wins the gold in a tim e o f 37.69 seconds.
M eanwhile, Atlanta's Gwen Torrence an
chors the women's 4 x 100 m relay and cap
tures her first gold medal o f the Games in a
tim e o f 41.95, the fastest relay o f the year, and
the US's fo u rth consecutive gold medal in the
women's sprint relays. Pauline Davis, w ho runs
the anchor leg for the Bahamas team, has a
faster split than Torrence, b ut is unable to catch
up to her longtim e friend and tra in in g partner
down the stretch. "I to ld her I was ru n n in g like
a madwoman to catch her," says Davis, w ho
was ecstatic about the island nation's first-ever
track medal, the silver. Torrence later laughed,
"1 said, 'Pauline, you aren't going to w alk me
dow n In m y h om etow n.'"
Trained and entered in the 1996 Games as a
1,500 m runner, Venuste Niyongabo o f Burundi
relinquishes his place in the 1,500 m to team
mate D ieudonne Kwizera, w ho m N iyongabo
credits w ith h aving b ro ug ht th e ir w ar-torn
co u n try to the Games. Later, N iyongabo com
left: A determ ined Nigerian
tea m defeats Argentina to
w in gold in th e men's
football finals.
petes in the men's 5,000 m race and paces the
fie ld to capture his country's firs t O lym pic
medal in history, a gold, in 13:07:96. He
right: Noureddine M orceli of
Algeria finishes in fro nt to
w in the gold medal in the
m en's 1500 m.
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D O LO R E S E L IZ A B E T H IN G R A L D I ‘ JO E Y IN G R A L O l • J E R O M E IN G R A M • C R IS T Y A IN G R A M • O O R O T H V T IN G R A M • E M IL Y K IN G R A M • EV ELYN A IN G R A M • G E R I B IN G R A M • G L O R IA J IN G R A M • JA M E S D IN G R AM
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R AYFO RD L IN G R A M • R O N A L D L IN G R A M • R O SA M IN G R A M • S U S A N D IN G R A M • C R E O L A IN G R A M D AVIS • A L IS O N IN G V O LD S T A D • P A T R IC IA D IN G V O LD S T A D • W E S L E Y W IN G W E R S E N • BA R R Y O IN M A N •
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top left: M uh am m ad Ali
the final. Before an O lym pic record-setting
stands w ith th e US men's
crowd o f 34,600 at the Georgia Dome, Yu
goslavia trails by o n ly one p oint, 51-50, w ith
basketball team at a special
half-tim e ceremony.
14 m inutes rem aining in the contest. But when
top right: Ali kisses the gold
Vlade Divac, Yugoslavia's star center, fouls out,
medal presented to him to
the m iddle is left open for Am erican David
replace th e one he lost.
Robinson, w ho pumps in a game-high 28
points to lead his team to victory. A three-tim e
botto m : Cuba battles the
O lym pian, Robinson is now the US's all-tim e
People's Republic of China to
w in the gold medal in the
leading scorer in O lym pic men's basketball
w om en's volleyball final.
com petition, w ith 270 points.
power o f women's volleyball, lean on their
long-tim e star, 28-year-old Luis Mireya, and
In a special ceremony held at halftim e, IOC
President Juan A n to n io Samaranch awards
M uham m ad A li a gold medal to replace the
/eft. A nette Hoffm an of
Denm ark takes a shot during
her team 's handball final
power back to w in the next three games,
15-12, 17-16, 15-6, and the gold medal.
M ireya paces her team b y ham m ering 31 kills
medal A li w on in 1960, b u t later lost. As Sama
in the w in n in g effort.
In the earlier bronze-medal game, Brazil o u t
ranch places the medal around All's neck, A li
lasts the Russian Federation in a five-set m atch
kisses h im on b o th cheeks and then kisses the
medal. This m oving trib u te to A li, "The Great
to keep the Russian team from w in n in g a
est," recalls the special role he played in the
Games in w h ich the team has competed.
O pening Ceremony.
Also w ith in the O lym pic Ring, more than
mark's first women's O lym pic handball team
medal for the first tim e in the eight O lym pic
In a surprising and th rillin g victory, Den
15,300 fans pack the O m ni Coliseum fo r the
women's volleyball final, an outstanding match,
holds on in a dram atic overtim e shootout to
between tw o dynam ic teams, Cuba and the
In w hat m ay be the noisiest game on record,
People's Republic o f China. D uring the c u lm i
Korean supporters crash cymbals and gongs
n a tio n o f yet another thrill-packed tourna
m ent, the Chinese in itia lly take the upper
and bang on inflatable yellow "sticks" w hile
hand, w in n in g the first game o f the m atch
16-14. But the Cubans, the long-dom inant
Norwegian crowd th a t came to cheer its team
defeat the favored Koreans in a 37-33 victory.
Denmark's fans— joined by the large and lively
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match w ith Korea.
right: David Robinson of the
US dunks the ball on his
w ay to a gam e-high 28
points in th e gold-m edal
gam e in m en's basketball.
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v ic to ry in the Tour de France, fin is h in g
1 1
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n a lly clears, Agassi dazzles the fans and his op
"The [1996] to u r was a lo w p o in t in m y career.
p onent in an incred ibly brief, 77-minute,
N ow I appear to have recovered." Indeed, In
three-set v icto ry— 6-2, 6-3, 6-1—to capture
durain, w ho m his rivals and the press call "su
the gold medal. After h ittin g a forehand w in
perhum an," is in extraordinary co n d itio n ; at
ner fo r m atch p o in t, Agassi throw s his racket
rest, his heart beats a remarkable 28 times each
in to the air and the crowd leaps to its feet to
m inute. IOC President Samaranch presents the
cheer his victory. Though he has w on every
medals to his fellow countrym an in person.
grand slam event except the French Open,
In the wom en's in d iv id u a l tim e trial, the
Agassi says o f today's victory, "To me th is is
Russian Federation's Z ulfiya Zabirova w ins the
the greatest th in g I've accomplished in the
first gold by 20 seconds over French cycling
sport. I'd keep this over all o f th em ." He em
legend Jeannie Longo-C iprelli, co m pleting the
braces his fiancée and coaches, and th en heads
to p /T h e bronzem e d a l-w in n in g Hungarian
top: Igor Bonciukov of the
w om en's handball team
Republic of M oldova races in
congratulates th e gold-
the individual tim e trial
m edal w inn ers from
finals of road cycling.
Denm ark.
botto m : M iguel Indurain of
b otto m : Russia's Oleg Saitov
Spain (right) celebrates his
(left) w in s th e 67 kg
gold m edal in road cycling
(147 lb) w e lte rw e ig h t
w ith his family.
final over Cuba's Juan
Hernandez (right).
each bout, Cuba's dom inance seems to fade.
O f the first six gold medals awarded, o n ly tw o
go to Cuba, w hile the others are w on by Alge
ria, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Russian Federa
tio n . W h ile Cuba's boxers are having some u n
expected trouble w ith th e ir opponents,
v irtu a lly everyone— coaches, athletes, and
fans—is unhappy w ith the new scoring system
th a t governs O lym pic b oxing under Interna
tio n a l Boxing Federation rules. Russian coach
N iko la i K hrom ov says the system "has made
these O lym pics very d iffic u lt. Fighters are u n
certain w hen they have w on or lost. It has p ut
a lo t o f pressure on them ."
In a new O lym pic road cycling event called
tim e trials, Spain's indom itable M iguel Indurain completes the 32.4 m i (52.2 km) Atlanta
tria l course, the same course used fo r the ear
course at an average speed o f 30.3 m ph
lier road race co m p etitio n, is lined w ith tens
(48.8 kph), 12 seconds ahead o f his teammate,
o f thousands o f fans w ho cheer the riders to
in the earlier bronze medal game— a game N or
Abraham Olano, and w ell ahead o f 36 other
the fin ish .
way lost to Hungary, 20-18— clang on cowbells
racers to capture the first-ever gold medal in
th ro ug h ou t the game.
At the Alexander M em orial Coliseum, peren
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16.22 m i (26.1 km ) course in 0:36:40 at an av
erage speed o f 26.5 m ph (42.7 kph). The tim e
the in d iv id u a l tim e trial.
In du ra in enters this co m p etitio n on the
Spain's Sergi Bruguera and fhe US's Andre
Agassi, as w ell as the capacity crowd on hand
to w atch them play the men's tennis singles
nial powerhouse Cuba appears unstoppable
heels o f his most disappointing racing season
gold-m edal m atch, are forced to w a it through
going in to boxing's gold medal bouts. But w ith
in w h ich he failed to w in his sixth straight
a three-hour rain delay. W hen the weather fi-
• S T E V E N G IS P H O R O IN G • A N D R E I L IS R A E L • A N D R E W IS R A E L • C ATH Y T IS R A E L • M AR TY P IS R A E L • AYTEN H IS SAV EVA • B R E T T R IS S E R O W • A L E K S E Y IS T O M IN • T A IZ O IT A l • T H E R E S A J ITO • G O R D A N A E
IV A N O V IC • E D W A R D J IV A N Y O JR • R IC H A R D A IV A R IE • L E IS E L E IV E R S O N « J U L IU S R IV E S T E R • M A R T H A I IV E S T E R • R O B E R T O IV E S T E R • C A L L E N IVEY • D E B O R A H L IV E Y • E D W IN H IVEY • E R IK M IV EY •
M E L A N IE C IV E Y • RYAN C IV EY • S T E V E IV E Y • T R A C I E A IV EY • W IL L IE IV E Y • B O N IT A K IV IE ♦ M A R J O R IE S IV IE • B E A T R IC E L IV O R Y • D O U G L A S K IV O R Y • L IS A C IV O R Y • T O M O K O IW A I • K A R L F I W A N E •
N O R M A L I W A N E • Y U M IK O IW ATA • E L A IN E A IW U C H A -Y O U N G • S H A IL A IYER • D E B B IE M IZ A • J O S E L IZ A G U IR R E • L E S Z E K M (Z O E B S K I • G W E N D O L Y N R IZ E L L • C E D R IC IZ IL E IN • R A U L IZ Q U IE R D O M T •
H IR O N O R I IZ U M I • R O B E R T A IZ Z O • J. G A RY R E D D IN G • F R E D A P J A B B A R • S T E P H E N M JA B LE C K J • AD A M R J A B L O N O W S K t • M IC H A E L J J A B L O N S K I • G E O R G E T J A C A K • C Y N T H IA C J A C E N T Y • JE F F R E Y W
JA C E N T Y • J A N E L L E M JA C K • LA R R Y L JA C K « M A R T H A J A C K * N IC O L A N J A C K * S U S A N L JA C K « S T E F A N IE J A C K E N T H A L * M AR ILY N R J A C K L IC H * S T E P H A N IE S J A C K S * A D R IE N N E N J A C K S O N « A LE X JA C K S O N
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ATLANTA
1996
/
THE
C E N T E N N I A L
OLYMPIC
GAMES
CELEBRATING
' t"” ' " “ r f ' f r ■‘ 'f 'V ■r
THE
GAMES
/
3
AUGUST
' f ' r ‘"i ■i '' "lY 'i i"t ■
artists, most notably Lonnie Holly, is presented
in a marvelous re-creation o f the environm ent
one m ig h t encounter along the backroads of
the South, where most o f the exhibition's
artists live and work. An almost overwhelm ing
collection o f sculptures—made o f everyfhing
from old hubcaps to garden tools, th a t most
people w ould classify as just jun k—is arranged
along either side o f a lengthy pathway. From
fantastic sculptures made o f found objects to
wood carving and works on paper in ink,
crayon, magic marker, and other, unusual w rit/eft. The Alliance Theatre
Com pany revives th e highly
acclaim ed Blues for an
A labam a S ky by fam ed
African-Am erican p layw rig ht
Pearl Cleague, w hich stars
Deidre Henry (left) and
Phylicia Rashad (right).
right: Souls G row n Deep, an
exhibition of over 450
painting, sculptures, and
works on paper by 40
Like Agassi, Paes has a fa m ily lineage th a t pro
contem porary self-taught
vides h im w ith the makings o f an O lym pian.
African-Am erican artists
His father was on the In dia n hockey team th a t
from th e South, is shown
at City Hall East.
w on the bronze in 1972, and his m other was
captain o f India's women's basketball team.
Fifty-five miles n o rth o f Atlanta at Lake
new, 30,000 sq ft (2,800 sq m) space w ith in
C ity H all East, Souls Grown Deep has attracted
Lanier, pow erful men's and women's teams
significant and enthusiastic a tte ntio n from the
from Germ any continue th e ir w in n in g ways in
press, especially from the in te rn a tio n a l press,
the first day o f finals in the canoe/kayak-sprint
w hich had been largely u n fa m ilia r w ith this
co m p etitio n. The German teams capture three
gold medals and a bronze in the first six races
kind o f work.
and place fo u rth in tw o other races.
C om m onw ealth U niversity, this extraordinary
O
l y m p ic
A
rts
F e s t iv a l
Curated by Dr. Robert C. Hobbs o f V irginia
ing implements, the range o f emotions, subject
matter, and treatments is extraordinary.
A com panion piece to this e xh ib itio n is a
e x h ib itio n is a landm ark presentation o f p a in t
smaller display o f the creations o f T ho rnto n
ings, sculptures, and works on paper by the 30
Dial, located at the M ichael C. Carlos Museum.
leading self-taught artists from the South.
M any consider Dial the dean o f the aesthetic
left: Leander Paes, ranked
fo r his father, M ike Agassi, w ho boxed fo r Iran
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular
Nearly all the exhibited works were drawn
genre o f using found objects in works o f art.
no. 127 in the w orld, w ins
in the 1948 and 1952 O lym pic Games. " It was
A rt o f the South, an e x h ib itio n o f extraordinary
from the collection o f W illia m Arnett, a fu ll
Dial's physically im posing and spiritually
quality, depth, and scope, is the largest and
tim e collector whose early passion fo r and
m ost im p o rta n t e x h ib itio n o f its kin d ever pre
co m m itm e nt to w ork b y self-taugbt artists led
provocative paintings seem to transcend the
two- and three-dim ensional w orld o f art they
w in n e r in 16 years.
a m em orable embrace w e 'll have forever," said
Agassi o f his father's hug. " I let h im get closer
to the gold th an he ever got."
sented to the public. M ost o f the self-taught
h im to assemble an extensive collection o f the
inhabit, generally incorporating found objects.
African-Am erican artists w ho created the 450
highest quality.
Viewers can spend a long tim e try in g to u n
right: Andreas D ittm e r and
Unseeded Leander Paes, w ho entered the
com petition ranked no. 127 in the w orld, col
th e men's singles tennis
bronze m edal to becom e
India's first O lym pic medal
G unar Kirchbach of Germ any
w in the gold m edal in the
men's pairs 1000 m
c ano e-sp rin t com petition.
lects him self after dropping the first set and
works included in this e x h ib itio n have been,
u n til recently, relatively u n k n o w n beyond the
w ins the men's singles bronze medal to become
lim ite d circle o f collectors and scholars w ho
India's first O lym pic medal w in n e r in 16 years.
have follow ed th e ir w ork over the past 20-30
years. Organized by Em ory U niversity's
The collective im pact o f the e x h ib itio n is ex
trem ely powerful, b u t it is the opening that so
effectively grabs the attention o f visitors. A col
earth the h id d e ii ideas and masked metaphors
contained in these remarkable works.
lection o f "yard art," w ith works by several
M ichael C. Carlos Museum and presented in a
Atlanta1996,
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• B A R B A R A J JA C K S O N • B A R B A R A K JA C K S O N • B E N J A M IN H J A C K S O N .B E N J A M IN L J A C ^ ^
L J A C K S O N • B O B W JA C K S O N • B R E N D A J JA C K S O N • BR YA N A JA C K S O N • C A L V IN A J A C K S O N • C A M IE L JA C K S O N • C A M IL L E JA C K S O N » C A N D IC E E J A C K S O N • C A R L IS S F JA C K S O N • C A R O L W JA C K S O N •
C A R O L Y N J A C K S O N • C A T H E R IN E A J A C K S O N • C H A R L E S E J A C K S O N • C H E R Y L A J A C K S O N • C H E R Y L J J A C K S O N • C H R IS T IN A M J A C K S O N • C H R IS T IN E A J A C K S O N • C H R IS T O P H E R D J A C K S O N •
C H R IS T O P H E R H J A C K S O N * C H R IS T O P H E R T. J A C K S O N * C O N N IE J A C K S O N . C O N N IE L . J A C K S O N D E B R A L L E F K O V iriT Z . B IL L IE J L E F L E R . C A R E Y LE E L E F L E R . LE E M L E F L E R .S T E F A N IL E G A L L . T H O M A S
C LE G AN « W A Y N E LE G G * W IL L IA M A LE G G E T T • S C O T T A L E G G IO E M T * E L L E A B H IA L L E G IN G T O N • C H R IS T O P H E R L E G L A N D • D E Y A N IR A J L E G O A S • E R IC L L E G O M E • JA C Q U E S LE G R A N D • J O H N A L E G R A N D
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