The San Francisco Chronicle has an off-the-wall online columnist ("The Fool") who comes up with some pretty good stuff. His question of the week was the above.
Here was his response
<<I'm still bitter about the gold medal basketball game in 1972. That's also about the last time the Olympics meant anything. The boycotts of 1980 and 1984 ruined the entire feeling. Now, the main reason for the telecasts seems to be sugary, faded images of how some scrappy farm lad from Kansas with a scary childhood disease who grew up to be the very best archer this country's ever seen.>>
For what some of the readers said (I like the guy who says if transexuals can compete as women why not Smarty Jones in the 100-yard dash) go here (at end of all the boring stuff about Bay Area pro teams):
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fool/
Here was his response
<<I'm still bitter about the gold medal basketball game in 1972. That's also about the last time the Olympics meant anything. The boycotts of 1980 and 1984 ruined the entire feeling. Now, the main reason for the telecasts seems to be sugary, faded images of how some scrappy farm lad from Kansas with a scary childhood disease who grew up to be the very best archer this country's ever seen.>>
For what some of the readers said (I like the guy who says if transexuals can compete as women why not Smarty Jones in the 100-yard dash) go here (at end of all the boring stuff about Bay Area pro teams):
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/fool/
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