The very best....

..and we will never see another player like him.

Was Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 100-meter world record wind assisted...?

The Omega wind gauge (stationary tube) registered 0.0 wind during the race

On July 16, 1988, Florence Griffith-Joyner ran 10.49 in the 100-meters at the United States Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Looking at the little flag being held by the official standing behind the start line, it would appear as if there was a strong crosswind coming from the left of the runners (the flag is actually even moving slightly backwards). There is definitely no tailwind, and how could such a crosswind favor the runners ? She outdistances the other competitors as well, and she seems to be the only one in the race to "benefit" from those winds...? 

Anyway....technically, Flo-Jo is still the best sprinter of all time, and that includes both male and female athletes. Her running during that year of 1988 is no less than close to perfection.

Bairro Alto when changes started....

1983, and Bar Frágil at Rua da Atalaia

In the beginning of the eighties nightlife was about to change. New habits and new customers would change urban conditions radically - for the better ?

The Joshua Tree....

430, King`s Road....

The wall....

Tearing down the Berlin Wall was in the 80`s a political top priority for US foreign policy. That was, of course, in the name of "freedom". Building (completing) the wall on the Mexican border thirty years later....is in the name of what ?

How about....

..jumping, 8,68, 8,83w, 8.91w, 8,87 and 8,84 in the same competition....and getting second place !?

The best run ever....

Florence Griffith-Joyner, Seoul, 1988

The last meters of the 200 m final is the best sprint ever done by a human....

The day Sweden lost its innocence....

..with youngest son at Fårö

Olof Palme, cowardly assassinated in Stockholm, on this date....30 years ago.

Say it with grace....

..Grace Slick about her early retirement

"You can do jazz, classical, blues, opera, country until you´re 150, but rap and rock and roll are really a way for young people to get that anger out. It´s silly to perform a song that has no relevance to the present or expresses feelings you no longer have"