Most of the Olympic memories that I’ve written about in this series have been of people winning medals, mostly gold. For my final memory, I am going to write about someone who has never won an Olympic medal throughout her otherwise illustrious sporting career: Paula Radcliffe.
In 2000, my dad and I had followed the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Olympic memories – 2004
Posted in Sport, tagged marathon, olympics, paula radcliffe on 8 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Olympic memories – 2000
Posted in Sport, tagged audley harrison, boxing, olympics on 7 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And so to the year 2000 – the first year of the new century. Or the last year of the old century, depending on how you look at it. More importantly for me, it was the first year that I had a proper job. This was a new interruption to my Olympic [...]
Olympic memories – 1996
Posted in Sport, tagged atlanta, olympics on 6 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The interesting thing about writing this series of blog entries is that, as the year in question gets closer, I can remember more about what happened in the games, but it becomes harder to isolate one stand-out moment. The Atlanta Olympics in 1996 are a prime example. I was at home, in the [...]
Olympic memories – 1992
Posted in Sport, tagged gail devers, linford christie, olympics on 5 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barcelona – Such a beautiful horizon
Barcelona – Like a jewel in the sun
So sang Freddie Mercury in the words of the song that he wrote as the theme for the 1992 Olympics, but tragically never got to perform at the event itself. I can’t vouch for the veracity of those lyrics, having never [...]
Olympic memories – 1988
Posted in Sport, tagged ben johnson, drugs, flo jo, olympics on 4 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The time difference between Britain and South Korea made it difficult to follow the 1988 Olympics live on TV. When my dad and my sister decided to get up early in the morning to watch the final of the men’s 100m sprint, I preferred to stay in bed. “You missed out”, they told me. [...]
Olympic memories – 1984
Posted in Sport, tagged daley thompson, olympics, zola budd on 3 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1984. A summer blessed with two months of solid sunshine in the west of Scotland. Or so it seems as I look back it through almost quarter of a century’s worth of rose tinted spectacles. But when I wasn’t outside pretending to be Robert Millar, Viv Richards, Kenny Dalglish or John McEnroe, [...]
Olympic memories – 1980
Posted in Sport, tagged olympics, steve ovett on 2 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m about to throw my blogging rule book out the window here, but I thought it would be good to have a bit of a build up to the start of the Olympic Games on Friday. By my reckoning, these will be the eighth summer Olympics of my lifetime and they begin on 08.08.08 [...]
Honky Tonk Woman, Rolling Stones
Posted in Rock, tagged mick jagger, rolling stones on 2 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a week late, but happy 65th birthday to Mick Jagger. Here he is in his prime:
