{"id":2261,"date":"2010-02-07T01:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2010-02-07T01:01:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T05:01:46","slug":"not-so-olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Not so Olympic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n a couple of days, the 2010 Winter Olympic games will start: this year, Vancouver, BC, Canada<\/a> will host the games. If you’re into this, the full schedule is of course readily available online<\/a>. Which reminds me that a couple of months ago, the Olympic torch did pass by Saint John, NB<\/a>. On November 25th, I witnessed the Olympic procession on Prince William’s: this was quite a non-event. On the other hand, it was fairly early morning then.\n<\/p>\n

The first Olympic Games I remember is the 1980’s one, hosted by the city of Moscow<\/a>. This was at the height of the Cold War and for some reason, that year, was also the first time countries were calling for a boycott of the games, mainly to protest the invasion of Afghanistan<\/a> by the Soviet army. Countries that boycotted the games organized their own games, which became known as the ‘Liberty Bell games’<\/a>. The Dutch did send a delegation to Moscow and while I don’t think they won any gold medals, I do remember the silver medal of the marathon athlete Nijboer<\/a>. Vaguely though.\n<\/p>\n

I haven’t decided if I’ll be following some of the games: Most likely not. The only interesting sport would be speed skating<\/a>, I guess. There was a time that only Dutch and Norwegian speed skaters took the major prizes. Hopefully that has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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