I have spent the past week glued to the Olympics. Every summer Olympic year, the power of the games takes over me and I am unable to discuss anything else. I even grew up in a town named after one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all time – Jim Thorpe. In 1992, I was obsessed with Kim Zmeskal and thought she could take Shannon Miller out. I tumbled around my parents’ living room on mats made out of sofa cushions waiting for Bela Karolyi to recruit me for Atlanta. I used to participate in academic competitions in junior high, and one time, there was an entire round devoted to Olympic questions and I took the gold. That’s about as close as I’ve come to being an actual Olympian.
In 1996, Celine Dion (don’t lose me here) performed the theme of the Closing Ceremonies in Atlanta, “The Power of the Dream.” I was obsessed with this song straight through Labor Day 1996. I played it everywhere we went in the car, I sang it at the top of my lungs, I made up my own rhythmic gymnastics routines in the street in front of my house to it. Remember when Kerri Strug performed that vault on a broken ankle and the American women took home the gold? Remember when all of the nations recognized by the IOC banded together after the Centennial Park Bombing? Remember when the U.S. Women won the first women’s soccer gold and Brandi Chastain took her shirt off? Remember when reading my blog entries was more about laughing with me and not at me?
Wow. Celine Dion. Really? I’m embarassed for you. Though I do admit I am obsessed with this year’s Olympics though. That Nastia Liukin! What a spitfire!
I was 11 during the ’96 Olympics. Don’t try to act like three years later, you weren’t all over “My Heart Will Go On.” In fact, you just knew the title of the song when I didn’t.
Oh snap! Whatever. You know all the words to “God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You.” That’s right. 98 degrees. Woah. And that Miley Cyrus video earlier today. That’s right, I’m airing our dirty laundry. haha
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Wow. Celine Dion. Really? I’m embarassed for you. Though I do admit I am obsessed with this year’s Olympics though. That Nastia Liukin! What a spitfire!
I was 11 during the ’96 Olympics. Don’t try to act like three years later, you weren’t all over “My Heart Will Go On.” In fact, you just knew the title of the song when I didn’t.
Oh snap! Whatever. You know all the words to “God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You.” That’s right. 98 degrees. Woah. And that Miley Cyrus video earlier today. That’s right, I’m airing our dirty laundry. haha
Airing our dirty laundry is now on the list of 7 things I hate about you.
That’s the power of the dream.
I especially remember where i was when Brandi Chastain ripped her shirt off. that was one of the best things that ever happened.
Thanks for writing the best mixtape rewind of all time.
WoW.