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Olympic Torch’s Road to Atlanta Will Begin in Los Angeles in ’96

By BILL DWYRE
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ATLANTA — 

Many Southern Californians who enjoyed the experience of watching the Olympic torch being carried through their neighborhoods before the 1984 Games will have the chance to see the torch again.

According to a source in the Atlanta Organizing Committee, the Olympic torch relay before the 1996 Atlanta Games will start its cross-country trek in Los Angeles.

“We will start the torch relay in early May,” the source said Friday, “and we will start in Los Angeles as a tribute to the ’84 Games.”

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The torch will then crisscross the country from Los Angeles and remain lit and moving until it lights the Olympic Stadium’s torch during the opening ceremony on Friday, July 19, 1996.

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

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