In 1980 my friend Lisa was at the USA Olympic training camp for field hockey.
No, she is not an ike-day.
“I can remember Carter coming on the TV and saying that we were boycotting the Moscow Games.” She tells the story with eyes seeing only that peanut farmer telling the world, “Hell, no we ain’t gonna go.”
“There always 1984.” Lisa’s coach told the players.
In 1984 Lisa was in Paris. She knew me. She was not in training.
And I supported Carter unlike Reagan who as GOP candidate went behind the back of the State Department to back-door deals with the Commies and Mullahs, but history is written by TV sound-bites. So the fall of the Iron Curtain attributed to a poncy actor instead of a peanut farmer.
In fact neither of them deserve the credit.
But Lisa does.
She sacrificed her dreams to fight for freedom.
She had no choice and neither do the Tibetans or Uighurs or Naxi or the Han.
China is a great country.
I love poo-poo platters.
But for the IOC to grant a dictatorial country the Olympics is a travesty and I’m pledging to boycott the entire Olympics.
Feh!
Even synchronized swimming.
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