A Clumsy Kid’s Lament During The ’76 Olympics

From the “I was a weird kid” files

Kathy Copeland Padden
4 min readMay 27, 2024
I had that move DOWN
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Back in 1976, the Olympics were a huge deal. Almost as big as the Bicentennial even, and that was a freak show for 18 long months in Boston.

Now, you have to remember that during the Dark Ages, we only had a handful of T.V. channels. So for a big bru-ha-ha like the Olympics, pretty much everyone was…

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