We were talking about the Olympics at work the other day, and in the course of the conversation I was trying to remember whether the 1972 winter games were in Innsbruck or Grenoble.
In fact, they were in Sapporo...Innsbruck was 1976, Grenoble was 1968.
The people in the conversation, women my age and younger, were amazed that I knew details about Olympics that happened when I was a small child, or before I was born. I was surprised that they didn't know at least the broad historical contexts, like the black power salutes on the medal podium in Mexico City in '68.
We finally decided that the reason isn't generational, it's that I was a journalism-history geek growing up, while these future chemists eschewed social studies for extra science classes.
Anyway, in the course of trying to determine the answer to the 1972 question, I found the IOC history page. Much fun for a geek like myself, remedial education for geeks like my friends.
Posted by Nic at October 27, 2005 07:07 PM | TrackBack