OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XIII {1980 LAKE PLACID OLYMPICS} {1980/02/17}, PART 2 (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1980 XIII Olympic Winter Games from Lake Placid. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Anchor sports commentator Jim McKay presides throughout this portion and introduces various events and highlights.
McKay highlights the transportation issues in getting people to Lake Placid, New York with the bad weather.
Sports commentators Dick Button and McKay provide coverage of Natalia Linichuk (USSR) and Gennadi Karponosov (USSR) who place first after the third round of mixed ice dancing.
Irina Moiseeva (USSR) and Andrei Minenkov (USSR) perform their ice dancing routine, placing third.
Button and McKay provide coverage of Krisztina Regoeczy (Hungary) and Andras Sallay (Hungary) performing their ice dancing routine, placing second.
Lorna Wighton (Canada) and John Dowding (Canada) perform their ice dancing routine next.
Sports commentator Robert Riger reports on pairs figure skaters Irina Rodnina (USSR) and Aleksandr Zaitsev (USSR), discussing their professional and personal lives.
Button and McKay provide coverage of Peter Handschmann (Austria) and Susanne Handschmann (Austria), performing their ice dancing routine.
Judy Blumberg (USA) and Michael Seibert (USA) perform their ice dancing routine next.
Jayne Torvill (Great Britain) and Christopher Dean (Great Britain) are up next to perform their own ice dancing routine.
Next up are Stacey Smith (USA) and John Summers (USA) with their ice dancing routine. Smith and Summers perform only five of the six patterns of the dance and are marked low because of it.
Karen Barber (Great Britain) and Nicky Slater (Great Britain) perform their ice dancing routine next.
Henriette Froschl (West Germany) and Christian Steiner (West Germany) perform their ice dancing routine.
Sports commentator Bud Greenspan profiles Rosi Mittermaier, who won the gold medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics women's downhill skiing event with a time of 43.77 seconds, and that same year won the silver medal in the giant slalom with a time of 1:29.25.
Sports commentator Sandy Hill interviews Marty Ryfa, New York State Trooper, on the extensive traffic issues with the weather and the Winter Games.
Notable commercial and promos include the following: Jesse Owens for American Express; Janet Lynn for Cotton; David Hartman for “Good Morning America”; and Dorothy Hamill for Credit Union.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 17, 1980 02:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:02:12
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:00067
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1980, Winter, Lake Placid; Olympics; Figure Skating, ice dancing mixed
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - American Express
- TV - Commercials - Boeing
- TV - Commercials - Boeing
- TV - Commercials - Chevrolet Camaro
- TV - Commercials - Cotton
- TV - Commercials - Credit Union
- TV - Commercials - Excedrin
- TV - Commercials - Gillette
- TV - Commercials - Goodyear
- TV - Commercials - Maxwell House
- TV - Commercials - Merrill Lynch
- TV - Commercials - Metropolitan
- TV - Commercials - Norelco
- TV - Commercials - Ortega
- TV - Commercials - Owens/Corning Fiberglas
- TV - Commercials - Revlon Flex
- TV - Commercials - Schlitz
- TV - Promos - ABC News
- TV - Promos - Charlie's Angels
- TV - Promos - Good Morning America
CREDITS
- Jim McKay … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Dick Button … Sports Commentator
- Robert Riger … Sports Commentator
- Bud Greenspan … Sports Commentator
- Sandy Hill … Sports Commentator
- Natalia Linichuk … Athlete
- Gennadi Karponosov … Athlete
- Irina Moiseeva … Athlete
- Andrei Minenkov … Athlete
- Krisztina Regoeczy … Athlete
- Andras Sallay … Athlete
- Lorna Wighton … Athlete
- John Dowding … Athlete
- Irina Rodnina … Athlete
- Aleksandr Zaitsev … Athlete
- Peter Handschmann … Athlete
- Susanne Handschmann … Athlete
- Judy Blumberg … Athlete
- Michael Seibert … Athlete
- Jayne Torvill … Athlete
- Christopher Dean … Athlete
- Stacey Smith … Athlete
- John Summers … Athlete
- Karen Barber … Athlete
- Nicky Slater … Athlete
- Henriette Froschl … Athlete
- Christian Steiner … Athlete
- Rosi Mittermaier
- Marty Ryfa
- Jesse Owens … Talent, American Express commercial
- Janet Lynn … Talent, Cotton commercial
- Dorothy Hamill … Talent, Credit Union commercial
- David Hartman … Talent, Good Morning America promo