Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 What's your earliest memory of the Olympics? Mine's a clear memory of Mark Spitz winning Gold in the Butterfly at the Munich '72 Games. What surprises me is that I could've only just turned 3yrs old at the time. I remember being fascinated he wore a cap, and had never seen anyone swim like that ( the butterfly I mean). After that my next clear memory is Franz Klammer winning at Innsbruck in the 76 Winter Games. ( I always prefer the Winter Games tbh). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4729 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 What's your earliest memory of the Olympics? Mine's a clear memory of Mark Spitz winning Gold in the Butterfly at the Munich '72 Games. What surprises me is that I could've only just turned 3yrs old at the time. I remember being fascinated he wore a cap, and had never seen anyone swim like that ( the butterfly I mean). After that my next clear memory is Franz Klammer winning at Innsbruck in the 76 Winter Games. ( I always prefer the Winter Games tbh). Same for me followed by all the local kids walking along moving their arms in a swimming motion and spitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 It was the breaststroke that inspired me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I'd like to say I remember things from 1984 but I imagine it's false memories of stuff I've seen on the telly in the years since then. So I guess that makes it Seoul 1988. Ben Johnson, FloJo, Greg Louganis, Anthony Nesty (for some reason - I was an odd child), Britain winning the hockey, Daley missing out, the doves getting toasted at the opening ceremony... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17290 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Alan Wells and Ovett/Coe, which was 1980 in Moscow. Fuck knows how Fist remembers Mark Spitz I think we pretended to be Robin Cousins and John Curry when the playground was icy, think they both won gold for figure skating before 1980 so that would be the earliest for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Probably Atlanta, in '96. More the coverage of the bomb than any of the actual sporting events. Just to make you guys feel really old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Alan Wells and Ovett/Coe, which was 1980 in Moscow. Fuck knows how Fist remembers Mark Spitz I think we pretended to be Robin Cousins and John Curry when the playground was icy, think they both won gold for figure skating before 1980 so that would be the earliest for me. John Curry was 1976. I was shocked when I realised when Spitz was, remember it clearly though, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17290 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 John Curry was 1976. I was shocked when I realised when Spitz was, remember it clearly though, I remember John Curry, and I remember Southmpton winning the cup very clearly that year, but cant remember anything about Montreal at all. Got this from wiki about it though: Princess Anne of the United Kingdom was the only female competitor not to have to submit to a sex test.[5] She was a member of her country's equestrian team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CleeToonFan 1 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Greece '04, remember mostly being gutted about Woodgate though (sure that was the same time). But I remember WC 98. Just never cared about the Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21965 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 1984 LA games. seb coe in the 1500m, steve ovett in the 800m. daley thompson winning the decathlon. carl lewis winning everything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 I remember flying over Barcelona aged 8 (I think) and being told that the Olympics happened there. Don't remember seeing any actual sporting action until 1996 - Michael Johnson waddling to glory cleaning up. Also remember trying (and failing) to stay up to watch the football - was on about 2am or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4389 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Defintely 72 - I remember Spitz as well as Mary Peters and Valery Borzov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Mine was seeing the Hockey team unexpectedly winning gold in Seoul 1988, beating the krauts 3-1 in the final having been trounced by them in the groups. The name Sean Kirly sticks in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 1984 LA games. seb coe in the 1500m, steve ovett in the 800m. daley thompson winning the decathlon. carl lewis winning everything else 1984 for me to - I can remember it vividly. My mam used to let me stay up late to watch the athletics and I've loved the Olympics ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Being on holiday in Menorca when the Spanish were hosting the olympics and watching fencing in bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33282 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 1984, Daley Thompson, Carl Lewis and Whitney Houston. I'd have have been 11. Never really been interested in it to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44995 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Not really an Olympic memory, but we were in Florida for the 84 games and I remember my mam constantly whining about how shit the American coverage was - if a yank won a race, forget about who got silver and bronze cos all they were talking about was the yank. My first real summer of sport like that was 86 - the Commonwealth games followed by the European Athletics Championships. It was class. First Olympics that I have any real memory of is 88. Was just having a look at the medals table for the European Athletics championships and the names like Heike Drechsler, Silke Gladisch etc. Happy days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I think GBR winning the hockey was my first summer Olympics, but I seem to remember seeing a winter Olympics around that time, Calgary? Was that 88 or 92? The things I remember from that were Eddie the Eagle, the shittest ski jumper in history, I think some of the Swiss and Krauts were doing like 150m, Eddie the Eagle would do 50m, in fact I can categorically say Paul Wyn could've went further. Also I remember a kraut figure skater called "Katarina Witt", I always remember her having ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE TITS, but when you google her now, they're quite disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42484 Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Disappointing? High Standards Stevie ( Shall we have an Olympic Minge Thread ? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 21643 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Alan Wells and Ovett/Coe, which was 1980 in Moscow. Fuck knows how Fist remembers Mark Spitz I think we pretended to be Robin Cousins and John Curry when the playground was icy, think they both won gold for figure skating before 1980 so that would be the earliest for me. This for me. Think the Americans boycotted the games. Also, for Stevie, I had a massive crush on Katrina Witt as a student at Uni. Definitely still would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Christie winning Barcelona '92. Although my favourite one has to be staying up with my granda during Atlanta '96 to watch Johnson break the 200m world record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Winning the relay at school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I can vaguely recall Ovett/Coe and later Cram. Fatima Whitbread is imbedded in my childhood memories scarily and I remember Daily Thompson more so as after his success there followed some of the best Spectrum games I had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan 0 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Coe and Ovett I do remember Robin Cousins describing Joanne Conways performance as "Gutless" must have been 1992 (not even sure it was the Olympics) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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