Let the Games Begin
It was fireworks and pageantry, almost 11,000 athletes from almost 200 nations marching in proudly. It was children dancing, and the emotion of the torch-lighting. And it was President Clinton moved to tears. That’s how the Olympics returned Friday to the U.S. for the first time since the L.A. Games of 1984. The action begins today. S1
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