This summer the Olympics are in London, and it should be quite the event. 36 years ago Montreal was the host and this is about my earliest sporting memory. I remember watching parts of it with dad and my grandfather at my grandparents house in Scotland.
I knew nothing of cost over runs, boycotts or for that matter records and gold medals. I just knew this was cool and the grown-ups were getting excited. I wanted to be part of it.
My clearest memory is the stadium itself, looking like a giant flying saucer to this 7 year old. I’ve visited the Montreal Olympic Stadium a couple of times over the year and had a great night watching the Expos play baseball and Youppi jumping around on top of the visitors dug out.
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I do enjoy watching the summer olympics:)
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Happy A-Zing!
Great memories of a big event. I’m trying to visit all the A-Z Challenge Blogs this month. My alphabet is at myqualityday.blogspot.com
I seem to remember the Winter Olympics being in Montreal too (though I might be mistaken). In any case, my earliest sporting memory is of that, the winter olympics when John Curry won the ice skating gold medal. My mother thought he was wonderful! I remember her going on and on about how lovely he was…
By the way, another “sporting” memory is of Duncan Goodhew (the bald swimmer, remember?) – he used the same bakery in Midhurst that we did. For some reason, it always blew my mind that someone famous would want to be in Midhurst when my teenage self could think only of getting out…!