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Olympics

 

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Central Pennsylvania

 

The boycotts are not so terrible. There’s no death involved. Olympics have survived massacres, cataclysms, destruction and sixteen centuries of slumber; they are stronger than boycotts.

Monique Berlioux, IOC Director

 

If the Russians had done half in Moscow what the Americans did in LA everyone would have screamed. In Moscow it was pretty fair play, the Americans were not fair play at all.

Monique Berlioux, IOC Director

 

At a meeting of the North Sotby Olympics Committee Mr John Fawcett suggested that the 1980 Games should take place in Moscow as agreed, but that the Russians should not be allowed to take part.

Lincolnshire Echo.

 

And as Americans look down into the great bowl of Los Angeles this week, one may feel the lesson spreading wider; that some of those ants far below, running and jumping and marathon heaving, are no longer the stalwart figments of Chariots of Fire' but deeply flawed individuals in everlasting pursuit of a quick (Jim) Fixx.

Guardian leader

 

What joy it has been to drive down streets and see American flags flying. The young athletes of the world have performed a miracle - they've brought back patriotism.

Letter to LA Times

 

Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. Its the one characteristic all runners, as different as they are, seem to share ...Stick with it. Push yourself. Keep running. And you'll never lose that wonderful sense of individuality you now enjoy. Right comrade?

Advert. LA Olympics.

 

The Olympics make too many people very nationalistic . All that talk of brotherhood. Why, we've known our competitors for years, meeting them in other tournaments. And the anger and the spite you saw in our game today - it' s hard to square that with the ideals.

Richard Charlesworth. Australian Labour MP

 

Ladies and gentlemen, would you please rise for the playing of the American national anthem.

Announcement made 80 times during the 1984 LA Olympics; they were boycotted by the Eastern Bloc after the US and other nations boycotted the Moscow games in 1980 following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.