Hello Boys: Sydney got lucky in September 2000 and we all lived the dream | hg_nelson
Along with the city, Roy Slaven and I got lucky when Channel Seven asked us to make two hours of television every night the Olympic flame glowed above Stadium Australia.gave us a particular platform from which to view the five-ringed circus. We wondered before the jump how could this show possibly work. But it became one the great treats of a lifetime spent yelling at sport on television.let loose the great Roy and H.G. theme of making the trivial serious and the serious trivial.
Eric "the Eel" clocked the slowest time in Olympic history but won the hearts of the nation and set a new national record for Equatorial Guinea. Fromperch, The Olympics suddenly were "AWAY!" . "The Eel" got the whole shebang off to a flyer. These Games would be different.Getty Images What luck it was to find that the tunes of Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra were the perfect sound track for the mystery and the mayhem of Greco-Roman wrestling. The caper is impossible to understand. Even the competitors admit they are clueless about the rules. Dial up the comp on Youtube. It’s a tight fit.
The city reached a peak and the luck held. The weather was incredible. The bogong moths fluttered by. The trains stayed on their tracks. The traffic flowed easily. There was a place for everyone, whether at the events, the live sites, the post-hooter happenings or slumped in front of the TV for the whole fortnight.
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