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Article: The 3 mayors who made it happen. (past and present mayors of Atlanta, GA worked hard to bring the 1996 Olympics to the city; Andrew Young, Bill Campbell, Maynard Jackson)(Special Report of the Olympics)(Cover Story)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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OLYMPIC theme music was piped into the background like a well-timed gospel hymn leading a preacher to the end of a rousing Sunday sermon.
In the "pulpit" was Andrew Young, Atlanta's former mayor and an ordained minister. He knew he had the right credentials, but he was not sure he had the right audience. For on this September day in 1990, he wasn't down South; he was far East--in a Tokyo, Japan, conference room to be exact--speaking to X6 poker-faced members of the International Olympic Committee.
But as he wrapped up his city's 45-minute pitch to host the Olympic Games, he watched in amazement as a dozen or so committee members--moved by the mix of his ...