OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XVI {1992 ALBERTVILLE OLYMPICS} {1992/02/21}, PART 6 (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:
Anchor sports commentators Paula Zahn and Tim McCarver preside throughout this portion and introduce various events and highlights.
Sports commentators Verne Lundquist and Scott Hamilton cover the women's figure skating free program competition.
Lundquist does a retrospective on the airline crash on February 14th, 1961, which killed the entire USA figure skating team while en route to the world championships in Prague. Former USA Olympic skaters Barbara Roles, Dick Button, and Ron Ludington are interviewed about the tragedy.
Sports commentators Sean McDonough and John Morgan cover the four-man bobsled competition. Standings in the four man bobsled after the first heat: Austria I is in first, Switzerland I is in second, and Germany I and Canada I are tied for third place.
McDonough and Morgan cover the rivalry between bobsledders Gustav Weder (Switzerland) and Wolfgang Hoppe (Germany). They also cover the controversy of Herschel Walker being removed from USA Team I in favor of Chris Coleman.
Sports commentator Lesley Visser recaps the expectations of USA Team I for today's competition.
Lundquist and Hamilton cover women's figure skating free program competition.
Sports commentator Tracy Wilson covers the special good-luck gift of a crystal vase that Nancy Kerrigan's (USA) parents left for her backstage.
Notable commercials and/or promos include the following: Susan Sullivan for Tylenol; Candice Bergen for Sprint; Gene Hackman for United Airlines.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 21, 1992 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:01:52
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:26384
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1992, Winter, Albertville; Olympics; Figure Skating, individual women; Bobsleigh, four-man men; Ice Hockey, ice hockey men
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - AT&T telephone services
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola soft drinks
- TV - Commercials - McDonald's restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Merrill Lynch
- TV - Commercials - Sprint telephone services
- TV - Commercials - Tylenol painkillers
- TV - Commercials - Uncle Ben's rice
- TV - Commercials - United Airlines
- TV - Commercials - United States Postal Service
CREDITS
- Paula Zahn … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Tim McCarver … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Verne Lundquist … Sports Commentator
- Scott Hamilton … Sports Commentator
- Lesley Visser … Sports Commentator
- Tracy Wilson … Sports Commentator
- Gustav Weider … Athlete
- Wolfgang Hoppe … Athlete
- Herschel Walker … Athlete
- Chris Coleman … Athlete
- Nancy Kerrigan … Athlete
- Barbara Roles … Cameo
- Dick Button … Cameo
- Ron Ludington … Cameo
- Candice Bergen … Talent, Sprint Commercial
- Gene Hackman … Talent, United Airlines Commercial
- Susan Sullivan … Talent, Tylenol Commercial