Comments on: Column: Forever Olympians http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/07/20/column-forever-olympians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-forever-olympians it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: abc http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/07/20/column-forever-olympians/comment-page-1/#comment-117758 abc Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:36:26 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=93107#comment-117758 Apparently Ralph Rose carried the flag but the quote may belong to someone else. In either case I found this article interesting with respect to the 1908 Olympics. [link]

I also found it interesting that the 1908 Olympics were supposed to be in Rome. But Vesuvius erupted in 1906 and the money for the Rome Olympics was sent to Naples instead. London was the second choice for 1908 so the venue was moved to Great Britain.

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