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Article: SYDNEY WON'T HAVE TO FACE `CAN YOU TOP THIS' STIGMA.(SPORTS)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1996
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Byline: PHILIP HERSH Chicago Tribune
ATLANTA -- When Barcelona, Spain passed the Olympic flag to Atlanta four years ago, at the end of a banner performance as host to the world, the Georgians were too preoccupied with unveiling and then marketing their blue slug of a mascot to grasp how big a flagpole they were going to need.
The 1992 Olympics were such an aesthetic and artistic success they automatically left a ``can you top this?'' challenge to the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, acronym ACOG, soon to be known as a cog with bad teeth. Dadgummit if the Atlantans didn't waste so much energy saying they could top Barcelona they didn't have enough ...