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Appropriatley, the last summer Olympic Games of the century will reflect the arrival of the "Digital Age". Several Olympic related sites will be featured on the information highway known as the World Wide Web. Now, people around the globe will be able to "visit" the Olympics from the comfort of their home computers. IBM, a corporate sponsor of the Atlanta Games is supplying the networking system for the Games.
The great changes that have taken place since 245 athletes gathered in 1896 for the first Olympic Games in part mirror the great changes that have taken place in the 1996 host city of Atlanta.
The city depicted in Gone With The Wind, rose from the wreckage of the American Civil War to become the capital of the "New South". Once part of the segregated south, Atlanta was the launching point for Dr. Martin Luther King's civil right movement of the 1960's. This bustling metropolis, in recent years home of giant corporations such as CNN and Coca-Cola, has been dubbed "a city too busy to hate".
As a model of peaceful coexistence for it's many ethnic groups, Atlanta will have a chance to spread it's message, through the world's greatest sporting event ever. |
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