One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
The big sports carnival in London , or "Les Jeux" has had your scribe out of action for the past few weeks and in attire that precludes cuff links, so hence the down time. I did however attend a "Les Jeux" function and had the opportunity to dig out some old gems from the days of the 2000 Sydney Games. There is something special about a town before, during and after the Olympics.
As a youngster, your scribe was in Mexico City for the 1968 Mexico City Games and managed to pass through Munich the month after the 1972 Munich Games. I remember Munich feeling like a ghost town that was living through the largest hang over imaginable. The 1980 Moscow Games were interesting as your scribe managed to attend regardless of my country actually boycotting the Games that year. 65 countries boycotted those Games and as you can imagine there were huge medal hauls for the Eastern Bloc that year!!!!!! There were a few "rebel' athletes that attended regardless and they marched in the opening ceremony under the Olympic flag, as "sporting conscientious objectors".....good on them. This chart shows the Olympic boycotts for 1976; 1980 and 1984.
Sydney was special as your scribe was lucky enough to attend a number of events and functions of the 2000 Sydney Games. One of your scribes offspring managed to participate in the 2008 Beijing Games and your scribe had some aviation interests in Athens that managed to coincide with the 2004 Athens Games.
Today's links are from the 2000 Sydney Games and is part of very large bunch of Olympics ephemera collected over time. They are hauled out for special events and the closing night of the "sports carnival" just passed had me milling though the attic boxes to find them. They were pure merchandise and they were acquired with all the other stuff one manages to collect during the Games. The last evening they were worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton check shirt, a Valentino blazer and the university blue tie.
Bring on Rio.
Til Later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series .....
The big sports carnival in London , or "Les Jeux" has had your scribe out of action for the past few weeks and in attire that precludes cuff links, so hence the down time. I did however attend a "Les Jeux" function and had the opportunity to dig out some old gems from the days of the 2000 Sydney Games. There is something special about a town before, during and after the Olympics.
As a youngster, your scribe was in Mexico City for the 1968 Mexico City Games and managed to pass through Munich the month after the 1972 Munich Games. I remember Munich feeling like a ghost town that was living through the largest hang over imaginable. The 1980 Moscow Games were interesting as your scribe managed to attend regardless of my country actually boycotting the Games that year. 65 countries boycotted those Games and as you can imagine there were huge medal hauls for the Eastern Bloc that year!!!!!! There were a few "rebel' athletes that attended regardless and they marched in the opening ceremony under the Olympic flag, as "sporting conscientious objectors".....good on them. This chart shows the Olympic boycotts for 1976; 1980 and 1984.
Sydney was special as your scribe was lucky enough to attend a number of events and functions of the 2000 Sydney Games. One of your scribes offspring managed to participate in the 2008 Beijing Games and your scribe had some aviation interests in Athens that managed to coincide with the 2004 Athens Games.
Today's links are from the 2000 Sydney Games and is part of very large bunch of Olympics ephemera collected over time. They are hauled out for special events and the closing night of the "sports carnival" just passed had me milling though the attic boxes to find them. They were pure merchandise and they were acquired with all the other stuff one manages to collect during the Games. The last evening they were worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton check shirt, a Valentino blazer and the university blue tie.
Bring on Rio.
Til Later
ONWARD
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