I was in the coliseum inn 84 when Anderson staggered across. Amazing the author didn’t say that marathon was won by Joan Benoit, an American.
Just listened to Team USA women baskeyball defeated the women’s team from Spain. Four players and the head coach are from UConn.
Shut up, Noel. EVERY SINGLE OLYMPIC ATHLETE N THE WORLD DISAGREES WITH YOU.
Just shut UP.
On the other hand. . .watching America kick the world’s ass is fun too!
Remember the “agony of defeat” clip on the Wide World of Sports?
The guy going off the side of the ski jump?
I did that on the Dope Slope.
My ski instructor suggested I take up chess.
Something noteworthy happened at these Olympics that has received, in America, no notice.
For the first time in 56 years an American won a medal in one of the sports selected for the original modern Olympics in 1896, and which has continued throughout every Olympiad since.
For decades, it was inconceivable that an American might medal. Probability zero.
Now, finally, an American took the silver in men’s foil, and the news doesn’t even mention it.
Oh, well. Americans generally don’t understand that it is a martial art, and don’t know how difficult and demanding it is.
Fun fact: the fastest object at the Olympics is the marksman’s bullet. The second-fastest object at the Olympics is the tip of the fencer’s weapon.
BS DQ of the US team in that relay on Friday.