Remember Helsinki 1983?

[rainbowgirl28]

I don't, but maybe this article will bring back memories for some of you. I didn't paste the whole thing, but you should check it out, it;s a good article.

http://www.iaaf.org/magazine/news/Kind= ... 30627.html

The weather turned for the first day of the decathlon. We had heavy rain, but happily my ticket allowed me to move to an undercover seat in the morning session. That evening we were stuck in the open again but had returned prepared with raincoats. The weather was so bad that the men's Pole Vault qualifying - featuring a teenage Sergey Bubka - was abandoned.