Born 1961 … the only thing I remember from the 1968 Mexico City Games was the closing ceremonies and my dad saying that’s how the Olympics should be run, let the athletes mingle without regard to nationality.
I paid attention to the Munich Games in 1972 … sadly … so I’m a little deaf to complaints about the more recent Games … none of them were even close to being that bad (except maybe Vancouver, but that’s a different tale).
I was born in 1974 and I have no memory of the 1980 games. So my first memories are of watching skiing during the 1984 Sarajevo games. I also remember seeing a feature on the “Agony of Defeat” ski jumper guy (who was working in a factory in Yugoslavia).
I remember that summer one of my dad’s brother’s family visited our house (one of the few, if only times they ever did that) on the day of the opening ceremonies of the LA games. Best memory of that summer was bicycling to the local McDonalds and getting free stuff from redeeming their Olympics promotion game pieces (planned before the Soviet boycott).
I had to do an assignment about one of the countries competing. I was eight years old and didn’t care about the Olympics, so I picked the only country I knew was participating: the host country.
She was a figure skater, not a gymnast. And she got a lot of attention where I grew up because she was from Connecticut.
I remember a photo of him in Time magazine wearing the five gold medals, arranged like the Olympic rings.
Born 1980. I remember my dad and granddad commenting on the '84 coverage, but have no memory of what specifically was on.
The Seoul games were a big thing among elementary students back then. My TV time was strictly limited, so I didn’t watch that much live. I followed the results through the news programs, remembering Ben Johnson and some of the spectacular knock-outs in boxing.
I was born in 1970. A vaguely remember watching the 1976 Montreal games on TV, but I distinctly remember following Eric Heiden and the US hockey team during the 1980 Lake Placid games.
What was it about the Vancouver games that was even remotely comparable to what happened in 1972?
1996: Kerri Strug’s vault and the Magnificent Seven. I was 8 years old.
I also remember with great amusement the 2004 men’s all-around, where the Athens crowd booed the scoring on Alexei Nemov’s high-bar routine at such length and so vociferously that the competition had to be stopped. The judges wound up having to invent some excuse to slightly revise the score to shut them up.
Edit: Or maybe it was only the apparatus final. Whichever.
I think I remember vague talk about us boycotting in 1980, but I may not actually remember that.
While I think I remember the Sarajevo Winter games in '84, I’m sure I remember watching the 1984 Summer Olympics in LA. I remember Joan Benoit winning the marathon, and Mary Lou Retton winning gymnastics.
I was born in 1973.
Vasily Alexeev was almost as popular on “Wide World of Sports” as Evel Knievel; just found out he died in 2011. Chris Taylor was a big (no pun intended) local celebrity because he grew up in the same area as me, and he died just a few years later.
No idea why I remember this, but I remember seeing the TV with a swimming pool and the words “XXth OLYMPIAD” superimposed. 1972.
I was a 12-year-old at Girl Scout camp when Nadia Comaneci did her thing 4 years later, and still got to see all of it because it was being rerun when I got back home.
I remember watching him win the silver in 1976, and here’s why. Again, 12-year-old me, when they were talking about the marathon, was all :eek: and said, “Twenty-six miles? WITHOUT RESTING?” I was glued to the TV because I just couldn’t believe the human body was capable of this.
It may not have been the Olympics, but I remember that my brother and I thought Lasse Viren’s name was awfully funny. “There’s this MAN and his name’s Lassie!” Our parents rolled their eyes and said, “Your name might mean something funny in his language.”
Maybe we could ask the people who run the Hydraulic Press Channel on You Tube if that is true. 
I remember him too! And another name comes to mind - Soviet gymnast Ludmila Turischeva. I may have butchered that spelling, that’s from memory. She was the 'elder lady statesman (stateswoman?) on the team while Olga was the cute smiling pixie-ish charming little girl. One thing I remember about Ludmila, she never smiled, while Olga smiled all the time.
In 1968, the Fasberry flop in the high jumps - http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SlVLyNixqU
