My brother thought the white powder used by weightlifters to help them grip the weights was the ashes of the Olympic flame.
This was because at the 1984 games the containers used to hold the chalk dust looks just like the flame bowl at the stadium.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I used to believe that if I got my hair cut like Farrah Fawcett's people would throw ashes on me.— mel
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to believe that the dust on top of doors was poisonous.— draconid
- What about "Another one buys a Datsun." You know, instead of "Another one bites the dust.— e-man