Add to ORKGAugust 7, 2021 This is a look back at how in these Sport and Society essays I have characterized the Summer Olympic Games beginning in 1992. It is not meant to be a history of each Olympics but simply a look at how I reacted to them. It is in two parts with this being Part On
It was last Friday and the Olympic Games were about to begin. Little did I know that the time-space ...
First paragraph: A notable moment in the 1993 film adaptation of Kasuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the...
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewe...
As the 2008 Games approached, there was fear that air pollution in Beijing would cast a pall over th...
For nearly two weeks now the Sixteenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the worl...
The Seventeenth Winter Olympics at Lillehammer roll on with moments of high drama, high controversy,...
There is no doubt what I will remember most about the 2004 Olympic Games. It will not be the opening...
There are times when I think that the Olympics should be wiped off the sports calendar once and for ...
It was being touted as the Women\u27s Olympics even before it started. As the games proceeded and es...
It has been quite some time since I have written one of these columns. It also has been a time of so...
The Olympic experience in person is considerably, perhaps even radically, different from the Olympic...
Looking back on the two plus weeks of the Winter Olympics a number of things stand out. As I have no...
For nearly a week now the Seventeenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the world...
The first Olympic Games originated in 776 b.C. in the city of Olympia in Greece. The games were of r...
It was being touted as the Women\u27s Olympics even before it started. As the 1996 Olympic games pro...
It was last Friday and the Olympic Games were about to begin. Little did I know that the time-space ...
First paragraph: A notable moment in the 1993 film adaptation of Kasuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the...
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewe...
As the 2008 Games approached, there was fear that air pollution in Beijing would cast a pall over th...
For nearly two weeks now the Sixteenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the worl...
The Seventeenth Winter Olympics at Lillehammer roll on with moments of high drama, high controversy,...
There is no doubt what I will remember most about the 2004 Olympic Games. It will not be the opening...
There are times when I think that the Olympics should be wiped off the sports calendar once and for ...
It was being touted as the Women\u27s Olympics even before it started. As the games proceeded and es...
It has been quite some time since I have written one of these columns. It also has been a time of so...
The Olympic experience in person is considerably, perhaps even radically, different from the Olympic...
Looking back on the two plus weeks of the Winter Olympics a number of things stand out. As I have no...
For nearly a week now the Seventeenth Winter Olympics has filled television screens across the world...
The first Olympic Games originated in 776 b.C. in the city of Olympia in Greece. The games were of r...
It was being touted as the Women\u27s Olympics even before it started. As the 1996 Olympic games pro...
It was last Friday and the Olympic Games were about to begin. Little did I know that the time-space ...
First paragraph: A notable moment in the 1993 film adaptation of Kasuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the...
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewe...