HEFNER ROAD “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” That’s the Olympic motto and in the late 1980s, it could have been adopted by the city of Oklahoma City, Okla., and most of the state of Oklahoma, as it prepared to welcome more than 4,000 athletes for the 1989 U.S. Olympic Festival. In just two short years, the city and surrounding region underwent a transformation as preparations were made at sports venues, hotels, restaurants, parks, streets and

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