Here’s all I know about the run up to the Olympics.
The swim qualifications were done in an NFL stadium and the setup of a portable above ground Olympic sized swimming pool was a really damn cool thing to learn about.
A black woman running track cried about her breaking barriers by being a black woman running track…. No didn’t make that one up.
After that I promptly decided I can continue not watching track.
“...something else has changed. Passion for the Olympics is not what it once was.”
In 1924 William Randolph Hearst paid good money to receive Olympic results from Paris. In California the people waited with anticipation to see what would happen to Duke Kuhanamoku in swimming and water polo. And San Francisco Bay Area went on a tear after Helen Wills Moody won tennis golds. They were exciting times.