OT- Are There Any Other Olympic Athletes on the Board?

[frankbmd]

Granted this is not gold, silver or bronze, but it is authentic and I am the original owner.

[bnorth]

Very cool Frank, did you participate in the Olympics or just the trials?

I have a Junior Olympic Gold Medal in boxing, would be considered the same as trials. Never made it past the trials.

[ullmandds]

The plot thickens...Frank IS...the most interesting man on net54!!!!!!! Very Cool!!!!!

I'm a former gold glove third baseman in babe ruth league and I won the egg toss at the 1983 ITT summer picnic...trophies is long gone!

[SMPEP]

I lost the 1948 Gold Medal for Town Planning to Yrjo Lindegren.

Varkaus, Finland. Please. Anyone can design a town in a pristine environment. Try Town planning Irvington, NJ. Now there's an achievement.

And in case you don't believe me ... Yes, they awarded a gold medal for town planning (among other interesting categories)in 1948:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_co...ummer_Olympics

[Leon]

In 4th grade I won 5 out of 6 athletic competitions our class had.

[oldjudge]

I competed in the 2000 US curling Olympic trials in Utah at Weber State. We had a 5-2 record in the first round, and lost to the prior US Olympic team in an extra end in the second round.

[forazzurri2axz]

does that count?

[Tennis13]

Originally Posted by forazzurri2axz

does that count?

My wife, too, is from Chicago and she had to enroll in the IOC doping protocol 12 months before the Olympics, but sadly her sport was very top heavy with Americans and she did not qualify. If she were from a different country, basically any other one, she would have made it in 2008.

That's the closest I've got.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Tennis13

My wife, too, is from Chicago and she had to enroll in the IOC doping protocol 12 months before the Olympics, but sadly her sport was very top heavy with Americans and she did not qualify. If she were from a different country, basically any other one, she would have made it in 2008.

That's the closest I've got.

You can actually get a gold medal in doping. I did not know that.

[boysblue]

Once I ate an entire three-topping pizza. I was quite full after finishing. It was round in shape just like the Olympic rings.

[thescooper]

I won a medal in the Army fighting a war. Any good?
I was representing my country killing terrorists

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by boysblue

Once I ate an entire three-topping pizza. I was quite full after finishing. It was round in shape just like the Olympic rings.

haha...always a mistake!!!!!