The V Olympiad- the 1912 Stockholm Games were a key turning point in my mind for the survival of the Olmypics. The previous three games were poorly organized and the […]

  Lasse Viren the long distance runner from Finland who won gold in the 5000 and 10,000 meters in both the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games […]

As Quinn covered  in his post the other day about London’s first Olympic Games,Rome, Italy had been awarded teh games but for financial reasons [the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and […]

The 1904 Olympic Games were held in St. Louis. Originally they were awarded to Chicago but there was a dispute between Chicago and St.Louis because St.Louis was hosting the Louisiana […]

  The second Olympic Games were held in Paris, France. They were a disaster. To start with the games were held as part of the 1900 World’s Fair which was […]

  http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-london-olympic-medal-predictions-2012-7 Everyone has their predictions. Earlier I posted the predictions from the Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated…now Goldman-Sachs.