Chicago is out.

[RICHARD]

I just started a new book - Something in the Air - about the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

Anyone remember Dick Fosbury, Bob Beamon, George Foreman . . . . .

The flopper, the farthest and the Griller.


What about the pair that shared a pair of gloves?

[Grace]

What about the pair that shared a pair of gloves?

Results of the men's 200 meter dash:

Tommie Smith - Gold

Peter Norman - Silver

John Carlos - Bronze

Don't leave out Norman, from Australia. He was ostracized by his country for participating in the protest. Wasn't even invited to take part in the Sydney games. When he died, in 2006, the US Track and Field Federation proclaimed October 9, 2006, the date of his funeral, as Peter Norman Day. Both Smith and Carlos gave eulogies and were pallbearers at his funeral.

[RICHARD]

Results of the men's 200 meter dash:

Tommie Smith - Gold

Peter Norman - Silver

John Carlos - Bronze

Don't leave out Norman, from Australia. He was ostracized by his country for participating in the protest. Wasn't even invited to take part in the Sydney games. When he died, in 2006, the US Track and Field Federation proclaimed October 9, 2006, the date of his funeral, as Peter Norman Day. Both Smith and Carlos gave eulogies and were pallbearers at his funeral.

The 68 games were a huge deal in my house. That is where I got 'the fever'.

Ever since then? Any athlete who brings politics onto the playing fields takes his chance with his own future.

Off the top of my head I can think of three medal ceremonies where people didn't show up for a medal-only one was due to politics.

How did the BP/fist thing improve race relations?

Why didn't they invite Norman to raise his fist with them? Would not that have been a sign of solidarity and white folks getting with the movement?

Was that a good idea at the time? If you remember, the Black Panthers were running about and getting headlines-and not the complimentary type- which really hurt their cause.
And instead of coming around with solution to their plight, they turned up, guns a' blazing-not the best idea when you want to be taken seriously.

And the controversy still is a topic today.

Instead of a summer night in Mexico, you get a noon press conference with Al Sharptongue.

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The Olympics are games and hopefully 'politics' is a serious struggle.

If you have a beef? Make sandwiches with it and don't interfere with my viewing pleasure, I put up with the real life BS all year long.

I want 17 days of fun.

[Grace]

Instead of a summer night in Mexico, we will next get a winter evening in Vancouver.

What is/are your favorite winter Olympic event(s)?

I love the figure skating, the bobsled, cross country skiing and can't leave out ski jumping.

[cassiesmom]

I guess I'm disappointed, although I'm not surprised, that Chicago was not chosen. I am surprised that we were the first city eliminated because I thought we had a stronger bid than that.

Looking at the Chicago 2016 Web site I can't imagine the logistics of moving people between the proposed venue sites, which were pretty much all along the lakefront between Evanston and Hyde Park. Our current rapid transit would have been stressed to the max. I like the winter Olympics better anyway - just give me ice hockey and ski jumping and I'm good to go.

[RICHARD]

Where is Eddie the Eagle when you need him?

No matter what happens in the Games- as political as things get-there is always the one story that makes you feel really good about sports.

It's a plaster that knocked down some walls and maybe gave a Brit the idea that they could ski-jump too?

Or a group of guys that decided that Jamaica needed a bob sled team?

I love the people who come the Middle East who do X-country sking.

There is only one Olympic Sport that I can not handle.

[Edwina's Secretary]

My favorite winter sports - figure skating, ski jumping and almost all the downhill skiing.

I will even watch some of the sledding events!!