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The Only Games in Town.(Olympic Games)
According to Pythagoras, there were three types of men, just as there were three types of visitors to the Olympic Games. First and lowest were those who came to sell. Next, halfway up, were the competitors. And last, at the top of the pile, were the people who wanted to watch. The more you look at this ranking, the better it gets. Applied to life, it means a shoo-in for the slacker, the couch potato, and the tremulous voyeur. Applied to the Olympic Games, it makes it simpler for ordinary mortals to gaze upon Michael Phelps--half man, half osprey, with a wingspan three inches greater than his height. "To be honest, I had no idea I was going to go that fast," he said, ...
- Steel Beam Collapses at Olympic Aquatics Center
- Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire March 19, 1996 700+ words
A steel beam designed to support a temporary roof at the aquatics center for the 1996 Olympic Games collapsed on Monday. No body was hurt in the accident which occurred in the planed 11,000-bleacher seat arena. Another 4...
- Chicago's big Olympic plans: INSIDE THE CITY'S BID- 2 Opening Ceremony venues-...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 13, 2006 700+ words
...Hersh Jul. 13--Chicago's initial proposal for the 2016 Olympic Games includes the unprecedented idea of having Opening and Closing...archery venue would be built on Northerly Island. - A new aquatics center, a permanent facility to cost approximately $130 million...
- Aquatics center site chosen.
- Newspaper article from: American News (Aberdeen, SD) April 22, 2005 700+ words
...22--Aberdeen's new outdoor aquatics center will be built at the same site as...most desired location for the new aquatics center. Park board members shared some concerns...year-old Holgate Pool once the aquatics center is finished. Bigger, better wanted...
- Life Time Fitness Partners With City of Savage to Build State-of-the-Art...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 20, 2001 700+ words
...build a state-of-the-art aquatics center. Upon Completion in 2002...Time Fitness Recreation and Aquatics Center will be one of 26 complexes...the facility is the outdoor aquatics center which showcases the largest...
- Aquatics Center to Open in Morgan Hill, Calif.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 8, 2004 700+ words
...city's long-awaited three-pool aquatics center on Condit Road opens to the public...unable to fill the gap. When the aquatics center was first announced, at a gala party...enthusiasm for so many years about an aquatics center that Eves gave the city the price...
- Savage Life Time Fitness Recreation & Aquatics Center Grand Opening Set for...
- Press release article from: Business Wire June 20, 2002 700+ words
...Life Time Fitness Recreation & Aquatics Center Grand Opening Community Celebration...Life Time Fitness Recreation & Aquatics Center is the result of a public-private...Life Time Fitness Recreation & Aquatics Center represents the absolute best in recreation...
- Aquatics center may open in 2007.
- Newspaper article from: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) September 28, 2005 700+ words
...plunge in the long-awaited community aquatics center by 2007. An Olympic-sized pool...pool, Thurman said. Plans for an aquatics center have circulated for more than a decade...going to see that project." The aquatics center is part of a master plan to improve...
- Huntley breaks ground on new aquatics center.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Williams, Amy E. November 12, 2000 700+ words
...ground Saturday on the district's new aquatics center, which is expected to open next summer...it from the school district. The aquatics center will be built on the property to the...community center, Palmer said. The aquatics center is expected to cost about $4 million...
