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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Games of the Olympiad

Can you remember your first Olympics?  When I was little, all we had for a television was this old black & white monolith from I don't know where, but for an event as important as the Olympics, we rented a brand new color television and for me, it was game on.  I haven't missed one since and that includes 1980, when we just happened to be in England all summer and I was able to watch the complete BBC coverage of the Games while NBC joined the American boycott.  How far back can you name the correct Olympic host city?

2012 - London                       My Olympics
2008 - Beijing                       Visually spectacular
2004 - Athens                       Back where it all began
2000 - Sydney                       Australia's Cathy Freeman wins the 400
1996 - Atlanta                       I went to the Track & Field trials instead
1992 - Barcelona                   Spain's Fermin Ruiz Cacho wins the 1500
1988 - Seoul                          Ben Johnson, NOT
1984 - Los Angeles               Alonzo Babers
1980 - Moscow                     Coe vs. Ovett
1976 - Montreal                    Dwight Stones & Mickey Mouse
1972 - Munich                       Tragedy
1968 - Mexico City                Bob Beamon
1964 - Tokyo
1960 - Rome
1956 - Melbourne
1952 - Helsinki
1948 - London
1944 - none
1940 - none
1936 - Berlin                         Jessie Owens shows up the Nazis
1932 - Los Angeles
1928 - Amsterdam
1924 - Paris                           The Chariots of Fire Olympics
1920 - Antwerp
1916 - none
1912 - Stockholm
1908 - London
1904 - St. Louis                    I ran on this track at the AAU Junior Olympics
1900 - Paris
1896 - Athens



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