Olympic Host Cities and Me

This would normally be the post titled “Humans arrive in…” but tracing the earliest human presence in this region is exceptionally difficult for two reasons. First, the area is little studied. Second, and perhaps the reason there has been so …

I’ll make this confession at the start: Those of you who read my initial posts about Rio might recognize most of the text to follow because for the second time in this series I’m going to simply copy much of …

Let the competition begin The U.S. led all competing teams with an impressive total of 121 medals including 46 gold although falling far short of the 83 gold and 174 total medals the Americans won in Los Angeles in 1984. …

With the opening of the XXI Olympiad in 2016, Rio de Janeiro became the first South American city to host the Olympic Games and as befits Rio and the Olympic movement, it was a combination of dizzying celebration, moments of …

Today we land in Rio de Janeiro the most recent and final stop on the tour of Olympic host cities I’ve visited (through July 2022) and I’m writing the initial draft of this post almost three years to the day …