Now that the Olympics are a polished, packaged, commercialized carnival that would rather show a figure skater warming up than an actual event, I long for WWoS even more. Growing up in Texas, there were some sports that you just had no exposure to other than seeing it on the Olympics or WWoS. ![]() It was through sports, moreso than any other medium, that we saw the first signs of chinks and cracks in the armor of communism. There was something about watching a seemingly invincible automaton East German luger, Romanian gymnast or Bulgarian weightlifter in a cold grey socialist setting surrounded by Politburo officials and apparatchniks. I think the mystique of this show can be summed up in two words - Cold War.
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