What's your most memorable Olympic moment?

Being a Gamesmaker ( Volunteer ) at the London 2012 games. The atmosphere was fantastic and
every visitor was made to feel so welcome by us and Londoners in general. It seemed then that London was showing the world
how good life could be if people came together.
Four years later Brexit shows we weren't that liberal country after all , just a load of old racist farts.

Often used to see Wells and his wife training on the campus when I was at University.

They seemed very nice people way back then.

A little before my time, but I was given a book about the olympics as a child, and read, and re-read the story of Al Oerter. Not many will have heated of him, but I was fascinated by his story.
In a similar vein, Sir Steve Redgrave. Legend
Coe v Ovett
Olga Korbutt

2012 was fantastic, I remember my parents were away, so popped in after golf to check the house was ok, made a cup of tea, and switched the TV on and it was rowing, Rowing? Pah! But then we won a medal, and then another, I was utterly engrossed. I even enjoyed watching the cycling!

Lynn the leap, Tokyo 1964.

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A little before my time, but I was given a book about the olympics as a child, and read, and re-read the story of Al Oerter. Not many will have heated of him, but I was fascinated by his story.
In a similar vein, Sir Steve Redgrave. Legend
Coe v Ovett
Olga Korbutt

2012 was fantastic, I remember my parents were away, so popped in after golf to check the house was ok, made a cup of tea, and switched the TV on and it was rowing, Rowing? Pah! But then we won a medal, and then another, I was utterly engrossed. I even enjoyed watching the cycling!

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I remember an interview with Geoff Capes back in the late 70s and he said that Al Oerter was his hero. I think he won a few Olympic golds.

Mary Decker and Zola Budd, LA '84

The Rome Olympics. I remember it as it was the last time I posted on CCMB.

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Originally Posted by Vimana.

Mary Decker and Zola Budd, LA '84

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Like it :thumbup:

Bolt jogging the last 10 meters and still breaking Johnson's record absolutely amazing

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Originally Posted by ian gibson

The 200m final at the 1980 Olympics was incredible. Pietro Mennea came from miles back to pip Wells on the line, great, great finish from Mennea who looked nothing like a sprinter, he was thin as a rake but super fast.

Regarding Wells being on steroids, I think it was Drew McMaster who gave the game away. If you look at footage of Wells in say 78, he was a lot smaller than two years later when he was all muscled up.

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I did forget about this one :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by BlueWales

Being a Gamesmaker ( Volunteer ) at the London 2012 games. The atmosphere was fantastic and
every visitor was made to feel so welcome by us and Londoners in general. It seemed then that London was showing the world
how good life could be if people came together.
Four years later Brexit shows we weren't that liberal country after all , just a load of old racist farts.

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Folk realised the only winners were the corporate business sponsors....and not the lasting legasy that was peddled by the politicians.

I'll go for Florence Griffith Joyner's 1988 sprint titles. She was almost certainly drugged-up but she was majestic to watch.

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I'll go for Florence Griffith Joyner's 1988 sprint titles. She was almost certainly drugged-up but she was majestic to watch.

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Until it was dropped, catching the javelin used to be one of the highlights for me.

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I remember an interview with Geoff Capes back in the late 70s and he said that Al Oerter was his hero. I think he won a few Olympic golds.

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He won Gold in the Discus at four consecutive Olympics. That's incredible enough, but factor in his injuries and it was unbelievable.

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Originally Posted by Splott Dave

Until it was dropped, catching the javelin used to be one of the highlights for me.

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I preferred heading the shot

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Until it was dropped, catching the javelin used to be one of the highlights for me.

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Dai, Splott Dai, is that really you?

Speculation was rife when you disappeared. Had you nabbed the pikey who shot you in the arse then inserted your bicycle pump up his left nostril and currently doing time in Parc nick? Were you renditioned by Mossad? Did Moggis send the boys round to have a word?

Coe v Ovett in 1980

Coe was the better 800 runner and Ovett a better 1500 runner but Ovett upset the form book and won the 800. Coe stormed back to beat Ovett in his best event. Ovett had won 40+ 1500 races in a row before that.

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The 200m final at the 1980 Olympics was incredible. Pietro Mennea came from miles back to pip Wells on the line, great, great finish from Mennea who looked nothing like a sprinter, he was thin as a rake but super fast.

Regarding Wells being on steroids, I think it was Drew McMaster who gave the game away. If you look at footage of Wells in say 78, he was a lot smaller than two years later when he was all muscled up.

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To be fair to Wells, I think McMaster had a personal grudge against Wells and wanted to blacken his name, I don't think there has ever been proof that Wells cheated? Also I watched a program about Wells many years ago, basically he upped his training regime and went from starting without blocks at race starts to using blocks, which helped the speed of his starts no end. Also Wells had a very competitor streak, he was always there or thereabouts in major games, even though on paper the Americans were much quicker.
The last White man before Wells to win 100 metre Olympic Gold was Valery Borzov of the USSR in 72.

My most memorable moment is that infamous 100 metres in Seoul 88. It was billed as Lewis v Johnson. I remember the heats and Johnson was staring out Lewis during them. In the final, Johnson blew everyone away, he even slowed up at the end. Think the first five all were sub 10 seconds in that race, which was phenomenal at the time. It was great TV! Of course over the following days we all know what happened.

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To be fair to Wells, I think McMaster had a personal grudge against Wells and wanted to blacken his name, I don't think there has ever been proof that Wells cheated? Also I watched a program about Wells many years ago, basically he upped his training regime and went from starting without blocks at race starts to using blocks, which helped the speed of his starts no end. Also Wells had a very competitor streak, he was always there or thereabouts in major games, even though on paper the Americans were much quicker.
The last White man before Wells to win 100 metre Olympic Gold was Valery Borzov of the USSR in 72.

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I'd like to think that Wells was clean but people raised eyebrows when he went from 11st to 14st of pure muscle in a relatively short time. If I remember correctly, a GB team doctor admitted to giving Wells Stromba, an anabolic steroid.

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Originally Posted by ian gibson

I'd like to think that Wells was clean but people raised eyebrows when he went from 11st to 14st of pure muscle in a relatively short time. If I remember correctly, a GB team doctor admitted to giving Wells Stromba, an anabolic steroid.

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Didn't know that. That paints a different picture of Wells for me.

Meeting 'Canton Boy' at the 2012 Olympic Games. :-)

Guardian did a good series on 50 great moments for 2012. Here's the Michael Johnson one:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/lo...ichael-johnson

Kelly Holmes double gold medal effort where she kept to the back of the pack before hitting the pace and nipping it at the end. Running usually bores me rigid but I enjoyed that.

An obscure one was during Sydney 2000 when a Wallaby jumped right in front of one of the competitors during the outdoor cycling and put him off so much he fell. I can't find the clip online but it definitely happened, I was on a night shift after a heavy night before on the beer and limited sleep, i though i'd imagined it but it was in the paper the following day.

I remember this well Paul , for the same reason . He live on Pentrebane road opposite Ashcroft I think .
.QUOTE=the other bob wilson;4654547]Martin Woodroffe, who lived about one hundred yards from me at the time, winning a silver medal in Mexico 1968 in the 200m butterfly. I was twelve at the time and already the Olympics meant so much to me that I couldn't believe that we had a medalist in the community.

It was fifty years yesterday since England won the World Cup, yet my memory is that two years later, the coverage the Olympics got rather said it all about how it was considered to be more of a big event than the football was. Maybe because there were so much fewer of them back then, but Olympic medal winners in the 60s were remembered after the Games had finished much more than they are now.

The truth is though that the first I got to know about Woodroffe's medal was when I got to school on the morning after he had swam. it was confirmed at Assembly that we had a Olympic medalist in the school (he was in the sixth form to my form two) - even though we lived so close to each other, the divide which says that a sixth former never speaks to a second year in school unless they are related, meant that I've never got to say more than about three words to Woodroffe in my life, but for a while in the late sixties he was more of a hero to me than any City player was.[/QUOTE]