Olympic obsession burns on
NZPA-AP Long Beach Evidence of Mr Jack Rose’s burning obsession for the Olympics is everywhere in his home — even in the water heater, whose pilot light was ignited eight years ago from the torch carried into Montreal’s Olympic stadium.
“Every time we take a shower, we’re reminded it all started with a sunkindling ceremony in ancient Olympia,” said Mr Rose, a retired track and field coach who has attended every Olympic Games since 1952, except Moscow in 1980.
Mr Rose, aged 54, a physical education professor at California State University, is a self-proclaimed track and field fanatic and the director of the national track and field hall of fame in Bloomington, Indiana. This year, he will be in charge of the medals pre-
sentations for events at the coliseum in Los Angeles, the main site of the Games. He became guardian of the Olympic flame when he arranged to have a special torch relayed from Montreal to Charleston, West Virginia, where the track hall of fame then was.
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