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Some info, pare. Bowling was a demo sport in Seoul (1988). I think a Pinay won it. But the IOC did not approve its inclusion in 1992 in Barcelona.

 

paren sbm - welcome back!

may avatar ka na :boo: sino yung nasa picture? hehehe

how's everything there, pare?

 

speaking of the Olympics, the Olympics in the 70's were quite memorable. The 1972 Munich Olympics was known for its tragic results - the holding and killing of Israeli athletes by a terror group (was it the PLO or the Black September group? Can't quite recall...

Of course that was where Mark Spitz won 7 golds in swimming - all in record time - a feat as yet unequalled...

 

Nung 70's talaga naglipana ang mga terrorists...there was PLO when Yassir Arafat was still known as a terrorist...The Red Army in Japan...The Red Brigade in Italy - which kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, a former Italian premier...The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany...also there was the Symbionese Liberation Army which kidnapped Patty Hearst and held her for so long that when she came out -she had become a member of the SLA itself - participating in bank robberies herself...the Black Panthers also in the US..

the 70's was also the heyday of Carlos, otherwise known as The Jackal...an assasin out of South America..

 

Ang saya talaga nung 70's :P

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speaking of the Olympics, the Olympics in the 70's were quite memorable. The 1972 Munich Olympics was known for its tragic results - the holding and killing of Israeli athletes by a terror group (was it the PLO or the Black September group? Can't quite recall...

Of course that was where Mark Spitz won 7 golds in swimming - all in record time - a feat as yet unequalled...

Ang saya talaga nung 70's :P

 

I remember those photos of Mark Spitz wearing all his medals. I seem to recall, however, that one swimming event during the Munich Olympics was removed in succeeding Olympics, which means that Spitz's record may be equalled but never surpassed.

 

The 1976 Montreal Olympics were more memorable for me, perhaps because in 1972, like a lot of basketball crazy Filipinos, I was all too focused on our basketball team beating Japan. The rest of the games seemed irrelevant (bad, bad, bad). But 1976 was different. There was Nadia Comaneci. The theme from the soap "The Young and the Restless" would eventually become "Nadia's Theme" because they kept using that music while showing Nadia's routine in slow motion. The "perfect ten" really began with Nadia Comaneci. It wasn't even 10 on the scoreboard but 1.0, because no one had ever scored a 10 before Nadia came along. The highest the scoreboard could register then was 9.99. Still in gymnastics, there was that pretty Korean-looking Soviet named Kim, who took a couple of silvers.

 

Then there was Bruce Jenner, who fulfilled a promise made four years earlier to win the decathlon. Lasse Viren again dominated the 5,000 and 10,000 meters run. The US basketball team regained the gold medal. Frank Shorter failed to win back-to-bak Olympic marathons. The swimming star in 1976 was John (?) Nader, whose forte was the backstroke. Bob Seagren relinquished his pole vault title to a Soviet.

 

In 1976, the Soviet Union (we kept seeing that CCCP on their jackets) for the second straight Olympics surpassed the US in the gold medal tally.

 

By the way, there was this documentary on the Munich Olympics that was really great. I believe the title was "Visions of Seven." It documented various aspects of the 1972 Olympics, as captured on camera by seven filmakers. The two segments I remember were those dealing with the decathlon and the losers. The latter was particularly heartbreaking, as it showed the reactions of those athletes who failed to advance. A lot of them were in tears.

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paren jt - you said the US regained its basketball crown in Montreal..was it in Munich where the US lost by 1 point to the Soviet Union - on a last-second tip-in by Alexander (?) Belov?

After the 70's the Olympics were flawed by boycotts so hindi masyadong maganda. In 1980 Moscow, the US boycotted while in the 1984 LA Olympics gumanti namang mag-boycott ang USSR...

Do you remember the great Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut? Did she come before, or after, Nadia Comaneci?

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Before si Olga Korbut. She was the darling gymnast of the Munich Olympics. In 1976, Sugar Ray Leonard and Leon Spinks won the gold medals in the Welterweight and Light-heavyweight respectively.

 

Tungkol naman sa Visions of Seven, magaling din yung unang segment about the 100 M dash.

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more songs of the '70's...

 

You Got The Love (1974)

rufus/chaka khan

 

Sad Eyes (1979)

robert john

- he is robert john pedrick, jr.

- The Lion Sleeps Tonight - 1972 hit

 

The Cover of Rolling Stone (1973)

dr. hook/the medicine show

- formed in new jersey

- legendary cartoonist

 

Family Affair (1971)

sly and the family stone

 

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (1970)

elvis presley

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paren sbm - welcome back!

may avatar ka na :boo:  sino yung nasa picture? hehehe

how's everything there, pare?

 

speaking of the Olympics, the Olympics in the 70's were quite memorable. The 1972 Munich Olympics was known for its tragic results - the holding and killing of Israeli athletes by a terror group (was it the PLO or the Black September group? Can't quite recall...

Of course that was where Mark Spitz won 7 golds in swimming - all in record time - a feat as yet unequalled...

 

Nung 70's talaga naglipana ang mga terrorists...there was PLO when Yassir Arafat was still known as a terrorist...The Red Army in Japan...The Red Brigade in Italy - which kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, a former Italian premier...The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany...also there was the Symbionese Liberation Army which kidnapped Patty Hearst and held her for so long that when she came out -she had become a member of the SLA itself - participating in bank robberies herself...the Black Panthers also in the US..

the 70's was also the heyday of Carlos, otherwise known as The Jackal...an assasin out of South America..

 

Ang saya talaga nung 70's :P

 

Hey bods! That's a pix of my mom taken in the late 40s. I think the car belonged to my lolo. I believe it's a De Soto...how I wish I had it now!

 

Some more info about terrorists. The SLA was then led by a man whose nom de guerre was Field Marshall Cinque. Carlos Ilyich Ramirez was caught in Sudan and extradited to France where he is now held in solitary confinement, just like Abimael Guzman, the founder and former leader of Sindero Luminoso (Shining Path), the communist movement that terrorized Peru from the 70s-80s.

 

Another terrorist group that was founded sometime in the late 60s is ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna). It is still waging a bombing campaign for Basque independence.

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tahimik si pareng sbm ah :P

speaking of the Jackal, sikat na mga bestseller nuon yung mga libro ni Frederick Forsythe - THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE ODESSA FILE, etc...saka lumabas na din si Ludlum around that time...

among the racy bestsellers nun yung mga books ni Jacqueline Sussan - ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH saka yung THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS....

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tahimik si pareng sbm ah :P

speaking of the Jackal, sikat na mga bestseller nuon yung mga libro ni Frederick Forsythe - THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE ODESSA FILE, etc...saka lumabas na din si Ludlum around that time...

among the racy bestsellers nun yung mga books ni Jacqueline Sussan - ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH saka yung THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS....

 

Bods, ok yan ah, si Boz Scaggs. I like his songs, but my favorite is Downright Women. The Jackal was made into a movie in the 70s starring Edward Fox. The remake starring Bruce Willis was horrible. Forsythe's book was great; the cool and calculating mind of the Le Chacal, his ruthlessness made you want to root for him.

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Sige bro, ingat lagi.

 

Mga movies na naalala ko na favorite namin noong highschool ay yung mga Italian Comedy movies ni Lando Buzzanca (ewan ko kung tama spelling). Naughty and sexy. Hindi ko na matandaan ang mga titles except for My Darling Slave.

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Bods, ok yan ah, si Boz Scaggs. I like his songs, but my favorite is Downright Women. The Jackal was made into a movie in the 70s starring Edward Fox. The remake starring Bruce Willis was horrible. Forsythe's book was great; the cool and calculating mind of the Le Chacal, his ruthlessness made you want to root for him.

 

hehehe I'm into my Boz Scaggs phase naman ngayon...I got hold of his Greatest Hits CD performed live at the San Francisco Great American Music Hall - ang galing! The best - pero wala dun yung Downright Women...

The Odessa File was also made into a movie starring Jon Voight, pare....

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