The venue for the 26* Olympic Games in 1996 - a year in which the centenary of the renewal of the tradition is being marked beyond the confines of the sports community - is Atlanta. The Olympic Movement, together with the Games themselves as its most evident manifestation, has known times of both crisis and expansion, and has become an essential part of our modern history. The Movement has recognised the necessity of changing with the times, and new tendencies very much associated with the tenure at its head of Juan Antonio Samaranch, have kept the wheel of Olympic history turning...