Those few weeks in Paris were magical, and understandably I didn't spend much time in front of the TV (except for the occasional F1 race - more on that in future posts!). But it was still hard to ignore the biggest story of the Olympics (besides the boycott by the Eastern Bloc) that was Carl Lewis' performance: 4 gold medals at track and field! (I used to root for Calvin Smith at the time, but oh well)
The big story for the French was Pierre Quinon's gold at pole vault (a bit of an upset I believe, as fellow Frenchman Thierry Vigneron was considered the better of the two), but let's not forget that superstar Sergey Bubka wasn't there due to the boycott. Here's Bubka breaking one of his many world records in 1984:
we left after the Olympics, but for obvious reasons the Olympics were not covered on TV, anyway I believe we were more excited about the European Championships the month or so before
ReplyDeleteThe very first movie we saw in the theaters in 1984 was 'les ripoux' with Thierry Lhermitte and Phillipe Noiret
ReplyDeletetoday's musical nugget
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Your first two musical nuggets were both on a mixtape a girl made for me! I'll make a post about it as soon as I can locate the tape!
ReplyDeleteAs for my arrival in France, I think it was around July 8th, because the Dallas GP took place on that day, and I remember reading an article about the race in the papers. I remember the article well because it talked about a a driver I didn't know (at the time) named Nigel Mansell who had a mechanical issue and he had to push the car till the finish line (enough to secure a valuable point for 6th place!), before collapsing from exhaustion.