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Above: Teammates congratulate Mike raise the spirit at a playoff rally. Left:
Neighbors (46) after his grand slam ho- Donny Del Valle shows his true Indian
merun. Top left: A Hart swimmer dives spirit.
into victory. Above left: Cheerleaders

stood the test of time. Of course, have assumed Olympic athletes over the world gathered in Los
many aspects of the Games have and their countrymen safer and Angeles to compete in the Sum-
been improved upon in recent faster passages to countries host- mer Games, many of them grew
years. Innovations in communica- ing the Games. But the essential up among the remnants of that
tion have widened the viewing Olympic spirit, epitomized in the one busy summer. While some
audience of the Games consider- timeless athlete, thrill of wide- students, as children, visited old
ably (it has been estimated that an world competition, has been left Olympic facilities such as the Me-
audience of two and a half billion unchanged and unimproved by morial Coliseum in Los Angeles,
people viewed the 1984 Olym- the inventions of modern man. the Marine Stadium in Long
pics). Sophisticated times pieces Beach or practice shooting range
have increased the accuracy of all Though this year's Hart students in Elysian Park, others drove with
records set in Olympic events. were not alive to witness the 1932 their parents down the tree-lined
Recent advances in transportation Olympiad when athletes from all Olympiad Drive and Athenian

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