1968 Olympics I’m 5 years old

I’m Steve Bennett. I live near Sydney, Australia, and remember watching the 1968 Olympics as a child with great excitement when I was 5. I vaguely remember Bob Beamons Long Jump and an Australian Gold medallist Ralph Doubell winning the 800m. This inspired me to be an athlete and one day be in the Olympics; that didnt happen. But I certainly enjoyed the era near Sydney’s most significant moment in 2000.

I became a decent regional-level athlete and later a high school science teacher with the opportunity to coach an athletics team. Then in 1993 when the Olympics was awarded to Sydney, in that moment i knew immediately that i had to be involved in it and give it a shot at getting someone into it or at least enjoy the era. So I put everything into coaching for the next 7 years, reading everything, talking to everyone, studying everything. Everyone who knew me in that period would verify it!  When it was over, I continued coaching for another 5 years, and then my young family needed my time more. So, the period of my life dedicated to coaching was over.

I learned a lot and have shared quite a bit in ebooks and on the oztrack.com website. Many ideas are still stored in my head, and it has taken time away from the sport to crystallize. I will unveil some of these ideas in this blog.