Jean Fallon and the 1996 Olympics
However, in 1996 Fallon lived in a neighborhood off LaVista Road with a Decatur address. She contacted me after reading the newspaper article, where I asked readers to contact me with their memories of the Atlanta Olympics. Jean Fallon’s story was a complicated one, which began before she met her husband, Patrick Fallon.
1996 Atlanta Olympic Torch passes through Dunwoody
In the fall of 1995, newspapers across the country announced three ways to become one of 10,000 torch bearers in the 1996 Olympic Torch Relay, which was sponsored by Coca-Cola. 5,500 community heroes would be selected by United Way chapters.
The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and the U.S. Olympic committee selected 2,000 present and former Olympians and other VIPs to complete the list of torch bearers. According to olympics.com the total number of torchbearers for the 1996 games reached 800 in Greece and 12,467 in the US.