In depth recounting of my global wandering
The boycotts continue. It’s likely that American readers of this blog know less about the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow than any other in the era of major contracts to televise the Games. The reason for this is, of course, …
My visit to Moscow was nearly, but not quite, the bookend to the trip that started in Beijing. Our small group boarded a train in Beijing early on the morning of 5 June 2013. Twelve days later we arrived in …
Africa. China. Africa. In his 1871 book The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin became the first person to propose the idea that it was “probable” that Africa was the cradle of humans and, in fact, Africa has been the focus …
This chapter will reveal why I include a geological supplement for each stop on this Olympic host cities tour. It’s not that I have a consuming interest in tectonics but I do have a compulsion for puns and now, as …
Before the Games. It’s not unusual for non-athletic controversies to bubble up around any Olympic Games and the 2008 Games in Beijing were no different in this regard. I’ll touch on one of them – the torch relay. Twenty years …