How Olympics veered south; Atlanta and the Twin Cities presented compelling bids to bring the Olympics their way. Atlanta may have won out because it was willing to play the game.(SPORTS) From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 28, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Fears of terrorists. Price gouging. A half-billion dollars of stadium construction.

The rush toward the 1996 Summer Olympics might be passing through your back yard.

Eight years ago Monday - April 29, 1988 - the U.S. Olympic Committee's executive board had a choice: Pick a U.S. city to vie with the sentimental favorite - Athens, Greece - and Toronto, Melbourne, Australia, and Manchester, England, to host the '96 Olympics.

The candidates: the Twin Cities and Atlanta.

Both presented world-class bids to attract the planet's largest sporting event. But Atlanta had ...

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