Korean Job Discussion Forums

[blueatjustc]

Oh i feel young, Barcelona was the first i remember. Was only 6 when it was at Seoul

[djsmnc]

One of you laughed at that. If you didn't, then this is your punishment:

[huck]

I remember visiting my grandparents in 1984 in Los Altos, Caliornia, and we saw the Iran-Iraq soccer match at..Stanford, I think...

I still have a couple of Olympic smurf figurines that they sold there.

[MorgolKing]

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[Yesanman]

1984 Mary Lou Retton!
Wow! Had many a dream about her. Hey I was only 14.

[jlb]

Calgary...1988. Would have been 9 years old. How could I not remember though, I lived in Edmonton at the time!

[ajuma]

Ok...how many Olympics have you watched while in Korea? I've watched 2 summer ('00 and '04) and 2 winter ('98 and '02). Wasn't it the '98 Olympics where N and S Korea marched in together?

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[ajuma]

Yeah, but the feeling it gave South Koreans was priceless!!

[sjrm]

i only remember the '84 olympics cause i was living in LA at the time, and was almost 5 by that point. but mainly remember it because i have a picture of my brother and i being held by a couple of olympians at dodger stadium.

[Woland]

1968, Grenoble, France. I was 6.

One night, after I had been sent to bed, while my parents, older brothers and sister watched the Olympics, I got up quietly, not waking my younger brother (always a sound sleeper), snuck downstairs skipping the squeeky step on the stairs (downhill skiing), belly crawled along the hall floor (biathlon) so I wouldn't be seen in the parlor mirror, quietly (again) took a chair from the dining room (weightlifting), put it against the stove in the kitchen, climbed up and onto the stove (gymnastics) to open the kitchen cupboard and sneak some Starburst candies (Gold Medal!). The cupboard door stuck and when I pulled a little harder to open it, I lost my balance and fell off the stove (DQ). I split my head open and needed stitches at the hospital.

That's how I remember the Grenoble Olympics.