GAMES OF THE XXX OLYMPIAD, THE {2012 LONDON OLYMPICS}: DAY 16 {PART 2} (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 2012 Summer Games of the XXX Olympiad from London. 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.
Sports commentators Tom Hammond and Craig Masback cover the men’s 5000m track and field finals: Mo Farah (Great Britain) wins the gold medal with a time of 13:41.66, Dejen Gebremeskel (Ethiopia) wins the silver medal with a time of 13:41.98, and Thomas Longosiwa (Kenya) wins the bronze medal with a time of 13:42.36.
Sports commentator Dwight Stones covers the women’s high jump, featuring Anna Chicherova (Russia), Tia Hellebaut (Belgium), Chaunte Lowe (USA), and Brigetta Barrett (USA).
Hammond and Masback cover the women’s 800m track and field finals: Mariya Savinova (Russia) wins the gold medal with a time of 1:56.19, Caster Semenya (South Africa) wins the silver medal with a time of 1:57.23, and Ekaterina Poistogova (Russia) wins the bronze medal with a time of 1:57.53.
Sports commentators Ted Robinson and Cynthia Potter cover the men’s 10m platform diving finals: David Boudia (USA) wins the gold medal with a score of 568.65, Qiu Bo (China) wins the silver medal with a score of 566.85, and Tom Daley (Great Britain) wins the bronze medal with a score of 521.10.
Robinson and Potter also cover the dives of Lin Yue (China), and Nick McCrory (USA) and highlight a segment on Daley (Great Britain)
Stones concludes coverage of the women’s high jump: Chicherova (Russia) wins the gold medal, Barrett (USA) wins the silver medal, and Svetlana Shkolina (Russia) wins the bronze medal.
Hammond introduces a segment on the American women’s 4x400 track and field relay team.
Hammond and sports commentator Ato Boldon cover the women’s 4x400 relay finals: the USA team, comprised of DeeDee Trotter, Allyson Felix, Francena McCorory, and Sanya Richards-Ross, wins the gold medal with a time of 3:16.87, the Russia team, comprised of Yulia Gushchina, Antonina Krivoshapka, Tatyana Firova, and Natalya Antyukh, wins the silver medal with a time of 3:20.23, and the Jamaica team, comprised of Christine Day, Rosemarie Whyte, Shericka Williams, and Novlene Williams-Mills, wins the bronze medal with a time of 3:20.95.
Sports commentator Lewis Johnson interviews Trotter, Felix, McCorory and Richards-Ross after they win the gold medal.
Notable commercials and or promos include the following: Peyton and Eli Manning for Sunday Night Football; Morgan Freeman for Visa; Eli Manning and Barry Sanders for DIRECTV.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: August 11, 2012
- RUNNING TIME: 01:36:11
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 112967
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 2012, Summer, London; Olympics; Sports; Track and Field, 5000m men; Track and Field, high jump women; Track and Field, 800m women; Diving, 10m platform men; Track and Field, 4x400m relay women
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AT&T
- TV - Commercials - BMW
- TV - Commercials - Budweiser
- TV - Commercials - Cadillac
- TV - Commercials - Chevrolet
- TV - Commercials - Citi
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola
- TV - Commercials - DIRECTV
- TV - Commercials - General Electric
- TV - Commercials - Hewlett Packard
- TV - Commercials - Kellogg’s
- TV - Commercials - Nike
- TV - Commercials - Procter & Gamble
- TV - Commercials - TD Ameritrade
- TV - Commercials - Tide
- TV - Commercials - Twitter.com
- TV - Commercials - United Airlines
- TV - Commercials - Visa
- TV - Commercials - Wal-Mart
- TV - Commercials - Walgreens
- TV - Promos - Sunday Night Football
CREDITS
- Bob Costas … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Tom Hammond … Sports Commentator
- Craig Masback … Sports Commentator
- Dwight Stones … Sports Commentator
- Ted Robinson … Sports Commentator
- Ato Boldon … Sports Commentator
- Lewis Johnson … Sports Commentator
- Cynthia Potter … Sports Commentator
- Mo Farah … Athlete
- Dejen Gebremeskel … Athlete
- Thomas Longosiwa … Athlete
- David Boudia … Athlete
- Qiu Bo … Athlete
- Tom Daley … Athlete
- Lin Yue … Athlete
- Nick McCrory … Athlete
- Anna Chicherova … Athlete
- Tia Hellebaut … Athlete
- Chaunte Lowe … Athlete
- Brigetta Barrett … Athlete
- Mariya Savinova … Athlete
- Caster Semenya … Athlete
- Ekaterina Poistogova … Athlete
- Svetlana Shkolina … Athlete
- DeeDee Trotter … Athlete
- Allyson Felix … Athlete
- Francena McCorory … Athlete
- Sanya Richards-Ross … Athlete
- Yulia Gushchina … Athlete
- Antonina Krivoshapka … Athlete
- Tatiana Firova … Athlete
- Natalya Antyukh … Athlete
- Christine Day … Athlete
- Rosemarie Whyte … Athlete
- Shericka Williams … Athlete
- Novlene Williams-Mills … Athlete
- Eli Manning … Talent, Sunday Night Football Commercial, DirecTV Commercial
- Peyton Manning … Talent, Sunday Night Football Commercial
- Morgan Freeman … Talent, Visa Commercial
- Barry Sanders … Talent, DirecTV Commercial