At the first modern revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, a little crew of casually assembled athletes foundered through a helter-skelter track meet at Athens. In the four decades since, the modern Olympic Games have become what their founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, hoped that they might one day be and what the ancient Olympic Games actually were: World's No. i sports event.
Last week in Berlin, daily crowds of 110,000 packed the gigantic new Olympic Stadium. Below them cavorted the finest athletes in the world. In the press stand sat...
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