OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XV {1988 CALGARY OLYMPICS} {1988/02/23}, PT. 1 (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1988 XV Olympic Winter Games from Calgary. 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 tonight's events, including women's speed-skaters Karin Kania (East Germany) and Andrea Ehrig (East Germany), ice dancing, and the 90-meter men's ski jumping competition.
McKay profiles Kania, whose accomplishments include: gold medal in 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid for the 500-meter race; gold medal in 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo for the 1,000-meter and 1,500-meter race, along with a silver medal for the 500-meter and 3,000-meter race and a bronze medal in the 1988 Games for the 3,000-meter race.
Sports commentators Gary Bender and Eric Heiden cover Kania and Ehrig's 3,000-meter race, with Ehrig breaking a new world record with a time of 4:12.09.
McKay profiles Yvonne Van Gennip's (Holland) home life and family, and she discusses her dream of becoming an Olympian.
Bender and Heiden cover speed-skaters Gabi Zange (East Germany) and Mary Docter's (USA) race, with Zange (East Germany) finishing with a time of 4:16.92, putting her into second place.
Bender provides women's speed-skating 3,000-meter standings with Ehrig in first place with a time of 4:12.09; Zange in second place with 4:16.92; Kania in third place with 4:18.80; Marieke Stam (Holland) in fourth place with 4:28.92; and Natsue Seki (Japan) in fifth place with 4:29.77.
Bender and Heiden cover speed-skaters Emese Nemeth Hunyadi (Austria) and Yvonne van Gennip (Holland) with van Gennip setting a new world record time of 4:11.94, putting her into first place.
McKay introduces Peter Jennings, news broadcaster, who discusses the Presidential campaign.
Sports commentators Chris Schenkel and Jeff Hastings discuss the eight-day delay of 90-meter men's ski-jumping competition due to the high winds.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Heinz Kuttin's (Austria) jump of 367ft/112m.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Eddie Edwards' (Great Britain) jump of 233ft/71m.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Thomas Klauser's (West Germany) jump of 375.5ft/114.5m, which puts him in first place.
Schenkel describes how the five judges look for both distance and style in a ski jumping competition. He interviews Fritz Mittelstadt (USA), Greg Windsperger (USA) and Vegard Opaas (Norway) for their perspective on how the judging works.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Pavel Ploc's (Czechoslovakia) jump of 375.7ft/114.5m, putting him into first place.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Andreas Felder's (Austria) jump of 372.4ft/113.5m, putting him in third place.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Mike Holland's (USA) jump of 344.5ft/105m, putting him in eighteenth place.
Schenkel profiles ski jumper Matti Nykänen (Finland), comparing him to tennis player John McEnroe, Brian Bosworth of the Seattle Seahawks and Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd of the Boston Red Sox, explaining that Nykänen is known to have a drinking problem, was arrested for breaking and entering and is difficult to work with, according to Opaas and Felder. Nykänen's coach Matti Pulli explains his troubles and his mother's hopes for the best.
Schenkel and Hastings cover Nykänen's jump of 388.8ft/118.5, beating the old record was 115.5m, which puts him in first place.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 23, 1988
- RUNNING TIME: 01:02:01
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:15963
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Olympic games - 1988 - Winter; Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1988, Winter, Calgary; Olympics; Ski Jumping, K90 individual (70m) men; Short Track Speed Skating, 3000m relay women
- SERIES RUN: N/A
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CREDITS
- Jim McKay … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Gary Bender … Sports Commentator
- Eric Heiden … Sports Commentator
- Chris Schenkel … Sports Commentator
- Jeff Hastings … Sports Commentator
- Peter Jennings … Sports Commentator
- Karin Kania … Athlete
- Andrea Ehrig … Athlete
- Yvonne van Gennip … Athlete
- Mary Docter … Athlete
- Gabi Zange … Athlete
- Marieke Stam … Athlete
- Natsue Seki … Athlete
- Emese Nemeth Hunyadi … Athlete
- Heinz Kuttin … Athlete
- Eddie Edwards … Athlete
- Thomas Klauser … Athlete
- Pavel Ploc … Athlete
- Andreas Felder … Athlete
- Mike Holland … Athlete
- Matti Nykänen … Athlete
- Greg Windsperger … Athlete
- Vegard Opaas … Athlete
- John McEnroe
- Brian Bosworth
- Dennis Ray Boyd