NNHS alum and featured columnist Noah Jampol does a fantastic job giving us his Most Memorable Moments in Olympic History on Bleacher Report this week.
From Michael Johnson's WR in the 200m at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to Derek Redmond's heartbreaking completion of his 400 semi-final on a shredded hamstring in the 1992 Games, Noah captures the drama and the lasting impact of these indelible moments.
Among these stories, none dates from before 1968, but that's not a criticism. There are too many stories to tell, and it must have been hard to pick only ten from the last 44 years.
We'll have to wait to read Noah's retelling of how barefooted Abebe Bikila outran the world's best marathoners through the streets of Rome in 1960, how Billy Mills pulled the upset of the century in the Tokyo 10,000m, and how Jesse Owens demolished the myth of Aryan supremacy in Berlin in 1936.
We'll try to be patient.
1 comment:
Thanks Jon! I'm sorry to have snubbed the early Olympics. Narrowing it down to 10 will all of those, though, oh my.
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