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[crazylemongirl]

Seoul... go Ben Johnson! Go!

[Alan_Partridge]

Me too...my birthday is at the end of September, and in '88 I got a tent. Remember camping out in the back yard with my brother while my dad stayed up to "look after" us...which meant him ploughing through a 12-pack with the Olympics on...funny that we're here now, all those years later...

[Newbie]

'84 in Los Angeles. The Canadian swimmers were really good and always threws frisbies out when they won gold.

Then, then figure skating at '88 in Calgary. Good stuff.

[drumpounder]

Germany 1972. I was 11 years old and we lived in a town called Lahr, just across the border from Strasbourg France. My father was in the Air Force. Scary times.

[cwemory]

I remember being forced to stay up for the opening ceremony of the 84' Olympics, but still sleeping through most of it. I remember liking the decathlon because I knew deca meant 10. I was 5.

[poker player]

3 things stand out in my mind about the 76 Montreal Olympics:

1. My uncle was involved somehow so got me a job working in the computer room which was powered by a huge IBM mainframe-no PCs back then
2. Nadia Comaneci won 3 gold medals in gymnastics.
3. A bar called the Father's Moustache that had peanut shells all over the floor where I met a blonde hotty from Sweden who introduced me to something she called stunt f#$%ing. I have been eternally grateful to her ever since.

[ajuma]

Wow! You kids!! I remember Peggy Fleming skating in the 1968 Olympics! And Dorothy Hammil! We all wanted hair like hers!!

[JongnoGuru]

The first Olympics I remember clearly paying attention to (sort of) were the big "Boycott Games" -- Moscow 1980. Of course disastrous for everyone involved and heartbreaking for the athletes themselves who weren't able to compete agaisnt the world's best, I was actually more interested in the international politics swirling around the event at the time than in the sports. Interestingly, China (PRC) joined the US-led boycott that year, and then didn't join the USSR's tit-for-tat boycott of the LA Games in 1984. Also noteworthy, Romania broke ranks with the Socialist-bloc boycott of '84 and came in 2nd in the medal count behind USA that year.

[bluelake]

Like Ajuma, I clearly remember the '68 Olympics.

[SuperFly]

Saturday, October 7, 2001


I was only 11 months at the time, but what a time it was...so young and full of energy...ahhh

I took home the silver in the pool jump, bronze in the 100 bone-dash.

I was disqualified in the frisbee flight catch for biting a girl dog.

*sigh*


Coach kicked me off the team for wearin high heel sneakers....

[VanIslander]

My earliest memory of watching a LIVE Olympics moment was the early 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo wherein the USSR dominated in many sports, and Canada's ice hockey team was destroyed repeatedly, by the Czechs, Swedes and USSR. But it also was the time Canada cheered for the Olympic speed skating Gold medalist Gaetan Boucher.

[lawyertood]

'68 Mexico City--John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their gloved fists in the air on the podium on a gesture of Black Power and then getting stripped of their medals for making a political statement.

[cosmicgirlie]

I remember following the 1988 Summer and Winter Olympics. I didn't follow them for another 10 years. I watched quite religiously the 1998 Winter Games and I've been hooked ever since.

I am such a geek that I've even signed up to volunteer in 2010 in Van/Whistler.

[kiwigirl :O)]

Seoul 1988....
i never thought that when i was watching it i would one day come to korea.....


kg

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I'm sure many young Canadians were inspired by Ben Johnson's performance in '88, and decided then that they too would someday travel to Korea and disgrace their country.

_*_