OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XVI {1992 ALBERTVILLE OLYMPICS} {1992/02/15}, PART 9 (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1992 XVI Olympic Winter Games from Albertville. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Sports commentators Verne Lundquist and Scott Hamilton preside throughout this portion and introduce various events and highlights.
Lundquist and Hamilton provide coverage of the men's free skate program, featuring performances by Aleksi Urmanov (Unified Team), Kurt Browning (Canada), Paul Wylie (USA), Petr Barna (Czechoslovakia), and Viktor Petrenko (Ukraine). Petrenko eventually wins the gold medal, Wylie wins the silver, and Barna wins the bronze.
Sports commentator Tracy Wilson interviews Browning and Wylie about their performances.
Lundquist and Hamilton provide Christopher Bowman's (USA) performance which puts him in fourth place.
Wilson interviews Petrenko about his gold medal-winning performance and his plans for the future.
Anchor sports commentators Tim McCarver and Paula Zahn review the current medal count.
Sports commentator Charles Kuralt highlights the 500m speed-skating performance of Dan Jansen (USA) in which he places fourth.
Kuralt highlights the giant slalom skiing performance of Kerrin Lee-Gartner (Canada) for which she wins the gold medal.
Kuralt highlights the giant slalom skiing performance of Hilary Lindh (USA) for which she wins the silver medal.
Notable commercials and/or promos include the following: Katarina Witt for Diet Coca-Cola.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 15, 1992 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 00:59:16
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:26334
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1992, Winter, Albertville; Olympics; Figure Skating, individual men; Short Track Speed Skating, 500m men; Alpine Skiing, giant slalom women
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AT&T telephone services
- TV - Commercials - Ace Hardware stores
- TV - Commercials - Allstate insurance
- TV - Commercials - American Airlines
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola soft drinks
- TV - Commercials - Delta
- TV - Commercials - Energizer batteries
- TV - Commercials - Ford automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Imodium AD medication
- TV - Commercials - Lever 2000 soap
- TV - Commercials - Merrill Lynch Mutual Funds
- TV - Commercials - Miller Genuine Draft beers
- TV - Commercials - Oral B toothpaste
- TV - Commercials - Smucker's jellies
- TV - Commercials - Visa credit cards
- TV - Promos - CBS Evening News
CREDITS
- Paula Zahn … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Tim McCarver … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Verne Lundquist … Sports Commentator
- Scott Hamilton … Sports Commentator
- Charles Kuralt … Sports Commentator
- Tracy Wilson … Sports Commentator
- Aleksei Urmanov … Athlete
- Kurt Browning … Athlete
- Viktor Petrenko … Athlete
- Paul Wylie … Athlete
- Petr Barna … Athlete
- Christopher Bowman … Athlete
- Dan Jansen … Athlete
- Hilary Lindh … Athlete
- Katarina Witt … Talent, Diet Coca-Cola Commercial