The Bridge Digital newspapers Croatian edition 1990s | Page 32
They started the 25 th of July.
They could have had the best Olympic
opening ceremony with the song
“Barcelona”
of
Freddie
Mercury.
Unfortunately, the famous singer from
Queen died last year of AIDS. Despite
this setback, they made an awesome
performance,
especially
with
the
Olympic flame. It was lit with a flaming
arrow, shot by Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo. That shot “entered” (it didn’t enter
but with a specific angle of the camera, it looked like that) and lit the Olympic Cauldron.
After this opening ceremony, Olympic Games officially started with 9364 sportsmen
and sportswomen from 169 countries. Curiously, the best country in this Summer
Olympics was the Unified Team made of 12 out of 15 former Soviet republics. Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania competed individually.
These Olympic Games have been the Athletics had more surprises for
best for our country. We’ve won a total all of us. American athlete Gail Devers
of 22 medals (13 gold medals, 7 silver won in 100m women after recovering
medals and 2 bronze medals) and set from an illness in which she could have
some Olympic and World Records. For lost her feet. It was needed a photo-
example, the cyclist José Manuel finish to know who won in that race (Gail
Moreno with his gold medal and World Devers won with a difference of 0.06
Record in 1km Time Trial. We had two seconds). One of the big surprises in
surprises too: the goal of the football athletics was in 400m men. British
player Kiko at minute 90 which set the athlete Derek Redmond was one of the
score to 3-2 and made us won the favourites but he injured his Achilles’
match and the gold medal of Fermín tendon in the middle of a race. He
Cacho at 1500m who passed his rival in wanted to end even though everyone
the last 300m and crossed the finish line (even his father who jumped over the
raising his hands with hundreds of fence to stop him) tried to stop him. He
people shouting his name. crossed the finish line helped by his