My Trip to the Olympics

In 1996 I had the incredible pleasure of going to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

One of my friends had relatives that lived there. We talked about going on and off for about a year and finally we decided to go. There was a lottery for tickets. You could pick out the events you wanted to go to and hopefully get tickets. One of the choices was a baseball game and the other was a water polo match. In fact the water polo match was the match to decide the medals. Needless to say we picked the water polo matches.

The results for the bronze medal Italy beat Hungary 20 to 18. It was up to that time the highest scoring game in Olympic history. For the gold medal game Spain beat Croatia 7 to 5. In one of the games, I don't remember which one, one of the coaches was ejected. He then tried to coach the team via cell phone. That didn't last very long.

We got to see the medal ceremony too. Oh yes and Juan Antonio Samaranch, head of the International Olympic Committee, handed out the medals.

One final quick note we went to the Olympics the day after the bombing. I'll add a few more reminiscences over the course of these games