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BECAUSE: THE sports.
“pages of the dailies here-
" gbouts are so full of slaver-
ing devotion to the NHL and
NBA, there. was a little item:

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will be the official meal providers
 for.the more than’ 10,000 athletes .
. taking part in the Olympic ‘Games *.
vat Atlanta this summer. : (4...
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~ of the world’s .best’athletes being”
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’ .frorn about 190 different nations —
5 around the‘globe.
-This inspired, if that’ 3 the prop-
_ er word, further thought about
provender and the athlete: Such as:
now that the Summer Olympics
-embrace every activity imaginable
in the name of sport'— beach vol-
leyball for instance — why hasn’t”
the International Olympic

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“Committee come up with an eating
; contest?,

A sort of gustatory games with-
in the Games. The usual panel of
. Judges to award marks on such fac-
tors as content, technique and ele-

‘’gance, Deductions for. sloppiness,

such as belching and the dribbling

‘ “of food and drink ‘down the exteri-
‘or of the old mandibles. And possi-,.
“bly three ncn-stop divisions: sprint”

(five minutes); middle distance (30
‘ minutes) and marathon (two
hours). :

~ This competition for the great-
est all-around eating champion of

: the modern Olympics just might
provide a worthy successor to the
@reatest standout — both in the

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the athletes ate' anything: Rough
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arena and the cafeteria — of the
ancient and original Olympics.

He would be Milo of Croton, of §

whom it was said he would carry a
four-year-old buli around the stadi-
um and then eat it in the same day,
He also would eat 20 pounds of
wheat in the form of a broth, 20
pounds of bread and wash the
whole thing down with 18 pints of
wine,

Authority for the Olympic
record feat of gluttony is Jane
Renfrew of Cambridge University,
whose specialty is paleoethnob-
otany, which is the study of food

plants and eating habits of ancient .

man.
Oldtime Olympic diets became

part of her research and she has

charted the rise and fall of primi-

tive sports medicine ~— i.e. diet —

for the Games’ start in 776 B.C. to
the Roman closure in'394 A.D.
For the first few hundred years

ard beef, goat and deer as meat.
Training methods were equally
spartan. Athletes pulled loads
while yoked alongside oxen,
chased hares, bent iron bars and
wrestled lions. All slept on bare
earth or oxhide groundsheets,

In the second phase, around 400

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