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Article: Sydney learns lessons from Atlanta Organizers hope to avoid some of the `warts'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 5, 1996
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When the tragedy and triumph that marked the Atlanta Games ended
with the dousing of the Olympic flame Sunday night, the 100 members
of the Sydney Organizing Committee who were watching took a deep
breath.
They had enjoyed intimate, even unprecedented, access to the inner
workings of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. They
shared the joy of organizers over frenzied crowds and world-record
performances. They felt the anguish and sadness over the Centennial
Olympic Park bombing. They watched the embarrassment over
transportation and technological foul-ups.
Now it is their turn. In four years, the world will go down under
when Sydney plays host to the 2000 Olympics, the first time ...