GAMES OF THE XXV OLYMPIAD, THE {1992 BARCELONA OLYMPICS}: DAY 10 {PART 1 OF 5} (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1992 Summer Games of the XXV Olympiad from Barcelona. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Anchor sports commentator Bob Costas presides throughout this portion and introduces various events and highlights:
Costas introduces the men's volleyball qualifying match: USA loses to Italy 15-9 in the first game and is currently trailing in the second game 10-6.
Sports commentators Chris Marlowe and Paul Sunderland provide coverage of men's volleyball: USA is the Olympic champion and Italy is the reigning world champion; USA wins second game 16-14 and the match is tied.
Costas highlights women's 3m springboard diving finals, featuring Julie Ovenhouse (USA), Karen LaFace (USA), and Irina Lashko (Unified Team).
Sports commentators Charlie Jones and Michele Mitchell-Rochas provide standings after six rounds of the women's 3m springboard diving finals: Lashko (Unified Team) is in first place with a score of 294.99, Gao Min (China) is in second place with a score of 289.35, Brita Baldus (Germany) is in third place with a score of 275.97, Vera Ilina (Unified Team) is in fourth place with a score of 274.62, and Simona Koch (Germany) is in fifth place with a score of 266.97.
Jones and Mitchell-Rocha cover the seventh round of the women's 3m springboard diving event: Min (China) is in first place with a score of 356.55, Lashko (Unified Team) is in second place with a score of 332.79, Baldus (Germany) is in third place with a score of 331.41, Koch (Germany) is in fourth place with a score of 324.48, and Ovenhouse (USA) is in fifth place with a score of 320.49.
Costas profiles diver Min.
Jones and Mitchell-Rocha cover the eighth round of the women's 3m springboard diving event: Min (China) is in first place with a score of 423.75, Ovenhouse (USA) is in second place with a score of 390.09, Lashko (Unified Team) is in third place with a score of 385.89, Baldus (Germany) is in fourth place with a score of 384.33, and Heidemarie Bartova (Czechoslovakia) is in fifth place with a score of 377.10.
Marlowe and Sunderland provide coverage of men's volleyball: game three of USA vs. Italy opens with the USA winning 13-11, and USA eventually wins the third game in the best of a five-game series with a score of 15-11.
Notable commercials and/or promos include the following: Randy Travis for Coca-Cola.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: August 3, 1992
- RUNNING TIME: 00:56:12
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 112194
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Olympic Games, 1992, Summer, Barcelona; Olympics; Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Volleyball, volleyball men; Diving, 3m springboard women
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AT&T
- TV - Commercials - Budweiser
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola
- TV - Commercials - General Electric
- TV - Commercials - JCPenney
- TV - Commercials - Maxwell House coffee
- TV - Commercials - McDonald's
- TV - Commercials - Oldsmobile
- TV - Commercials - Phar-Mor
- TV - Commercials - Primatene Mist
- TV - Commercials - Reebok
- TV - Commercials - Xerox
CREDITS
- Bob Costas … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Charlie Jones … Sports Commentator
- Chris Marlowe … Sports Commentator
- Paul Sunderland … Sports Commentator
- Michele Mitchell-Rochas … Sports Commentator
- Brita Baldus … Athlete
- Heidemarie Bartova … Athlete
- Vera Ilina … Athlete
- Simona Koch … Athlete
- Karen LaFace … Athlete
- Irina Lashko … Athlete
- Gao Min … Athlete
- Julie Ovenhouse … Athlete
- Randy Travis … Talent, Coca-Cola Commercial