A SIDEWAYS GLANCE AT ATLANTA : E-MAIL FROM ATLANTA PAYNE'S DOMAIN UNFIT FOR HUMID BEINGS.Heat is on. Heat is on high. Heard about summer heat in Atlanta. Billy Payne (Atlanta's Peter Ueberroth Peter Victor Ueberroth (born September 2, 1937 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American executive. He served as the 6th commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989, and is currently head of the United States Olympic Committee. ) big fat fibber fib n. An insignificant or childish lie. intr.v. fibbed, fib·bing, fibs To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie2. . Told IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= average temperature in Atlanta in August is 75 degrees. Must have meant Celsius. Sitting outside watching archery. Only seated five minutes, already pool of perspiration forms on table in front of me. Shirt wet. Hair wet. Socks wet. Even rubber soles on sneakers sneakers Noun, pl US, Canad, Austral & NZ canvas shoes with rubber soles sneakers npl (US) → zapatos mpl de lona; zapatillas fpl wet. Need drink. Ah, water More perspiration. Go into tent. Air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. . Wonder who invented air conditioning. Wonder if word ``Nobel'' is on his resume. Walk back outside. Scorching scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. hot. Blazing hot. So hot that asphalt is bubbling. So hot, concessionaires put word ``really'' on menu in front of ``hot dog.'' Suddenly have a yen for cinema. Car-wash scene from ``Cool Hand Luke'' is a favorite. ``In the Heat of the Night'' won Oscar. Did Morgan Freeman have the windows down while ``Driving Miss Daisy''? Sit down. Dying. Start dreaming of igloos. Here comes an older lady. Looks like my mother. One of the thousands of Olympic volunteers. What does she want? What is she about to give me? A towel! Not just any towel but towel that has been soaked in ice water! Brrrrr! I wipe towel all over me (lady won't do it). Cool, frosty sensation up and down my overheated o·ver·heat v. o·ver·heat·ed, o·ver·heat·ing, o·ver·heats v.tr. 1. To heat too much. 2. To cause to become excited, agitated, or overstimulated. v.intr. form. Ahh! Feel like polar bear polar bear, large white bear, Ursus maritimus, formerly Thalarctos maritimus, of the coasts of arctic North America. Polar bears usually live on drifting pack ice, but sometimes wander long distances inland. trapped in meat locker. Put towel down. Two seconds go by. Overheated again. Sun grilling me like a bratwurst. Need more towel. Towel still cool. Seconds later, towel now tepid. Need new towel. Need new assignment. Anything going on in Oslo? Just chillin'. - Cyberscribe SOURCE: Michael Ventre Sydney keeps watchful eye While most Olympic visitors seethed and groaned over the transportation and technical problems that plagued the Atlanta Games in the early days of competition, some others stood by silently. Taking notes. They were members of a delegation from Sydney, Australia, which will play host to the Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. in 2000. More than 100 emissaries have been trying to benefit from some of Atlanta's hard-learned lessons. The Australians have seen how Atlanta depended too much on its MARTA trains, and have observed how sloppily the bus-transportation system was operated for athletes, spectators and media. In many respects, Olympic officials now wonder if a city like Atlanta (with a metro-area population of 3 million) is too small for the Summer Games. ``They've pushed the limits of their capabilities,'' said Richard Palfreyman of the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. . ``But even as much bigger as Sydney is (population: 4 million), we'll be pushed to the limit, too. The Olympics strain everything to the breaking point. But what we've learned, reiterating something we felt all along, is that the transportation has to be right from the first day. You can't wait until the last week for everything to fall in place. ``If you have a lot of problems at the start, it affects the host city's entire image. ``Technology is another aspect of that, as well. After seeing what happened here, we've decided anything we use in 2000 has to be up and proven by 1999.'' The other issue, of course, is security. Sydney's early publicity, done before these Olympics, assures the world it has a safe environment. Still, as last week's bomb blast demonstrated, anything can happen. ``You can't control everything, but we already had our security committee when we got the bid (in September 1993),'' Palfreyman said. ``We brought security people here even last year, to see the preparations, and they were on the ground here when the explosion happened. It was good for us, because we were able to watch it from the inside as Atlanta dealt with the reports and developments.'' This javelin thrower can still compete A 1928 Olympian and his family are outraged over an advertisement for a New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. impotency clinic. The ad features a doctored picture of Stan Lay holding a ``limp'' javelin. Lay, who at 90 is New Zealand's oldest-living male Olympian, said no one from the New Zealand Men's Clinic sought his permission to use the photo. His son-in-law, Richard Fairey, said: ``I'm absolutely disgusted with the advert. To use it without his permission is appalling.'' Colesno Communications Ad agency immediately withdrew the ad, apologized to Lay and offered to make a donation to a charity of his choice. ``We just assumed because the picture was so old that the person in it would have died by now,'' said Adrian Hood, the firm's account director. ``We certainly didn't do this to upset anyone. The gist of the advert was the javelin, not the athlete, but in hindsight we should not have run it.'' Matching sprinters step for step The camera looks a little like R2D R2D Return To Dominate (sports battle cry) 2, the mechanical leading man of the ``Star Wars'' trilogy, and what could be more appropriate? Rail Cam The rail cam made a public debut in the NHL on November 20, 2006 in the Colorado Avalanche/Dallas Stars hockey game. The Versus cable television network used the camera as much as they could during the game to test it out for a live use on a nationally broadcast program. has become the high-tech star of NBC's Olympic track and field coverage. This canister of a camera, mounted atop a high-speed rail High-speed rail is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions include 200-320 km/h (125-200 mph) - depending on whether the track is upgraded or new - by the European Union and above 90 mph and balanced in a gyroscopic gy·ro·scope n. A device consisting of a spinning mass, typically a disk or wheel, mounted on a base so that its axis can turn freely in one or more directions and thereby maintain its orientation regardless of any movement of the base. mount, has given NBC's viewers their best look at these Games so far. ``For us, it dates back to the 1988 Olympics in Seoul,'' director Andy Rosenberg said. ``We had a camera that was on the top edge of the roof of the Olympic stadium The Olympic Stadium is the name usually given to the big centrepiece stadium of the Summer Olympic Games. Traditionally, the opening and closing ceremonies and the track & field competitions are held in the Olympic Stadium. there, and the cameraman was an English fellow who had a remote control that we used. ``He would follow our races from up there, and he gave us some great images.'' The camera worked particularly well in the men's 100 meters, when Carl Lewis met Ben Johnson Ben Johnson or Benjamin Johnson may be:
``We needed it to be able to move at least 3 meters per second, we figured,'' Rosenberg said. ``So, I'd call him, and he'd tell me, `We've got it up to 1-1/2 meters per second.' And I'd say, `Well, good, but that's not fast enough.' ``When he finally called and said, `I've got it!' it was like we finally broke the sound barrier.'' VOICES ``We're behind synchronized swimming synchronized swimming Swimming sport in which the movements of one or more swimmers are synchronized with a musical accompaniment. The sport developed in the U.S. in the 1930s and was admitted as an Olympic event (solo and duet only) in 1984; in 1996 the rules were changed and just ahead of kayaking. We just moved ahead of air rifle.'' - U.S. baseball coach Skip Bertman on how NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. rates his team, which has drawn sellouts for most of its games but has seldom been included in the television coverage. ``To put it in a simplistic sim·plism n. The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications. [French simplisme, from simple, simple, from Old French; see simple way, our government is building the theater, and we're putting on the play. But if the play doesn't make money, the government also has agreed to cover the expenses. It's a good partnership for everyone, because afterward we'll have many wonderful facilities.'' - Richard Palfreyman, official for Sydney Organising Committee for the 2000 Olympics ``It takes a lot more than nine people to make up a soccer team.'' - U.S. soccer player Julie Foudy Julie Maurine Foudy (born 23 January 1971 in San Diego, California) was a midfielder for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987 through 2004, finishing with a remarkable 271 caps. on the federation's original plan to pay only nine team members. ``The girls . . . it's like a miracle when they land on their feet. They're breathtaking. The men are just not that good. They're just not going to get anywhere.'' - David Burns, founder of Burns Sports Celebrity Service, which provides athletes for commercials and appearances, on the marketing potential of male gymnasts. Baseball won't deliverany dreamy matchups A baseball Dream Team at the 2000 Sydney Games? With Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. busting the fences and Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux mowing down the hitters? Dream on. Even if baseball's governing body votes next month to allow pros in the Sydney Games, it probably won't happen, because there are concerns about what impact it might have on the major-league pennant races. The 2000 Olympics are scheduled for Sept. 16 through Oct. 1, which prompted some baseball officials to suggest that teams mathematically eliminated from contention supply a player or two to the U.S. team. ``We've spent a lot of time talking about it,'' acting commissioner Bud Selig said. ``But let's say your team and my team are out of it and we supply a player, but (one of us is) playing a team that's not out of it. That skews the pennant race. That's what a lot of people worry about.'' In addition, players would lose the chance to achieve certain milestones if they missed 20 regular-season games to play in the Olympics. For some, that would translate to dollars lost when it comes to salary arbitration the following winter. Union head Donald Fehr suggests a method that would allow many Triple-A players to compete in the Olympics. ``We could essentially say that for the year 2000 anybody whom a club doesn't bring up on Sept. 1 be eligible to play,'' he said. The NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there is taking a break in its schedule so the best pro hockey players can compete at the Nagano (Japan) Winter Games in 1998. But weather precludes baseball from starting earlier or ending later, making such a break unlikely. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1-2) ``I can't believe it'' seems to be the opini on of 200-meter freestylers Josh Davis of Austin, Texas (left) and Sweden's Anders Holmertz, as well as 3-meter divers Jenny Keim (left) and Melisa Moses. Davis and Holmertz were just checking to see if they qualified (they both did) while Keim and Moses are reacting to a praying mantis praying mantis: see mantid. they found near the warmup tubs. (3) No Caption (Bud Selig) (4) ``I was standing there all hooked up, and all of a sudden I could see it. I saw it coming up the wire. The wire lit up, and it came right through me - bang I liked it. I went back and stood in the same position the next day, but it didn't come back.'' BILL WALTON NBC commentator describing how he was hit by lightning while covering Saturday's beach volleyball competition. |
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