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Olympic Host Cities & Me

Notes on the XXI Olympiad Montreal – 1976 (Montreal and Me addendum)

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Echoes of 1972. None of us who are old enough can forget the events of the 1972 Olympics in Munich when the Black September group took nine members of the Israeli Olympic Team hostage after first killing two others. The …

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Montreal and Me

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The first stop on my Olympic host cities tour is Montreal. I’ve been to the city on three separate occasions – once before it hosted the 1976 Summer Games and twice afterward. So, let’s get started. My pre-teen excursion. I …

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Daaah-dah-dada-dah-dah-dah

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Some of you have heard me tell the tale of how, in the summer of 2021 while watching the Olympics and looking at some of the aerial shots of Tokyo, I thought about how different the city seemed to look …

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