There are few who will dispute Dr. Hoberman's thesis that the Olympics have been and are likely to remain politically charged. However, in certain articles and interviews he or interviewers continually choose to cite popular examples that may infact prove to be far more complex than his readers and listeners are lead to believe. It is not sufficient to use examples unless they have been fully invetigated. In this case, let us return to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. At that time, I was a long time resident and university student in Mexico City. The issues that led up the riots and ensuing governmental response are not nearly as simple as many americans are led to believe. It would be wise of anyone writing of this era and event to look at the greater context of the global, politicized student and political movements and, or civil unrest during 1968 and, as to how how given regimes responded to events throughout. No one can condone the extremes that were taken, but it needs to be understood that in the months leading up to the Olympics of 1968, unrelated events were the catalysts that led to the protests, the riots, and the tragedy of Tlaltelolco. During this period, I had friends competing on a European team: even visited the Olympic Village and though an outsider, had the pleasure of dining with them in the commissary on several occassions. Likewise, I had friends in the Estado Mayor Presidencial as well as within the U.S. Embassy. One should look more closely at the 'Student' leadership, the history of Luis Echavaria (and his rise through the ranks of the PRI and the structure of the party). If one is to look at the gratest issue of political statements that was unsettling to the games international organization and to Brundage in 1968, look to the American Athletes who stood upon their podium with fists raised in protest. This event changed the future peception of the games more than the riots and oppression of the protestors. Munich was to follow in 1972. Those writing on this subject and similar areas of the post 1968 era, would be well advised to read interviews with Jean Luc Goddard's realization of 'western journalistic and academic tourism' in which he discusses his romantic naivite and, realization of how focused groups manipulate the press and scholarship. In closing, I should add that from late August into September and October of 1968 in Mexico City, there were few who could feign ignorance of what was happening and, there were even fewer who for whatever reason in the end did not support the govenments actions at the time. Tlatelolco is a sad moment, but it and the events that led up to it had less to do with the Olympics than some might imagine. It is now fashionable to take a post-modern deconstructionist position but, regardless of era, period, or culture, official histories are cleansed and edited to promote current thought that are all too often, is penned well after the fact.