OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XVII {1994 LILLEHAMMER OLYMPICS}: DAY 13 {PART 3 OF 5} (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1994 XVII Olympic Winter Games from Lillehammer. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Anchor sports commentator Greg Gumbel presides throughout this portion and introduces various events and highlights.
Gumbel highlights upcoming events, including women's individual figure skating, featuring Nancy Kerrigan (USA), Tonya Harding (USA), and Oksana Baiul (Ukraine); women's giant slalom with Eva Twardokens (USA), Diann Roffe-Steinrotter (USA), and Heidi Voelker (USA); women's 500m short track speed-skating with Cathy Turner (USA); and women's aerial freestyle skiing.
Gumbel highlights women's figure skating practice as Baiul and Tanja Szewczeno (Germany) crash, leading to mutual injury and possible elimination from future rounds.
Sports commentators James Brown and Park Smalley cover women's aerial freestyle skiing: winning gold is Lina Tcheryasova (Uzbekistan), winning silver is Marie Lindgren (Sweden), and winning bronze is Hilde Lid (Norway). Also featured are Kirstie Marshall (Australia) and Tracy Evans (USA).
Sports commentator Al Trautwig highlights the men's 4 x 10km cross-country skiing relay, with Italy winning the gold and Norway, featuring Vegard Ulvang, winning the silver.
Trautwig highlights the women's 30km cross-country: winning gold is Manuela Di Centa (Italy), winning silver is Marit Wold (Norway), and winning bronze is Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (Finland). Also featured are Lyubov Yegorova (Russia), Inger Helene Nybraten (Norway), Suzanne King (USA), and Marie-Helene Ostlund (Sweden).
Trautwig profiles Di Centa and her life outside of skiing.
Sports commentators Tim Ryan and Christin Cooper cover women's giant slalom: winning gold is Deborah Compagnoni (Italy), silver goes to Martina Ertl (Germany), and bronze goes to Vreni Schneider (Switzerland). Also featured are Hilde Gerg (Germany), Anita Wachter (Austria), Eva Twardokens (USA), Carole Merle (France), Anna Parisien (USA), Pernilla Wiberg (Sweden), and Heidi Voelker (USA).
Ryan profiles Wachter and her struggle to overcome the recent death of a close friend in order to compete in the Olympic Games.
Sports commentator Andy Mill profiles the current skiing conditions.
Gumbel highlights skier Tommy Moe (USA) and his quest to win an Olympic medal in the alpine combine event.
Sports commentator Ed Bradley profiles men's alpine combined skier Simon wi Rutene (New Zealand) and his Polynesian background.
Brown and Smalley cover men's aerial freestyle skiing: winning gold is Andreas Schonbachler (Switzerland), silver goes to Philippe LaRoche (Canada), and bronze goes to Lloyd Langlois (Canada). Also featured are Kris Feddersen (USA) and Trace Worthington (USA).
James Brown profiles LaRoche and how his brother Eve LaRoche, now his coach, helped pioneer aerial freestyle skiing into an Olympic event.
Sports commentator Mary Carillo interviews aerial freestyle skier Worthington, asking if he is planning on competing in the next Olympic Games.
Notable commercials and/or promos include the following: Shaquille O'Neal for Reebok.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 24, 1994 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:32:39
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:40121
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; Olympic Games, 1994, Winter, Lillehammer; Olympics; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Alpine Skiing, giant slalom women; Short Track Speed Skating, 500m women; Freestyle Skiing, aerials women; Cross Country Skiing, 4x10km relay men; Cross Country Skiing, 4x5km relay women; Alpine Skiing, Alpine combined men; Figure Skating, individual women
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1994
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CREDITS
- Greg Gumbel … Anchor Sports Commentator
- James Brown … Sports Commentator
- Park Smalley … Sports Commentator
- Al Trautwig … Sports Commentator
- Tim Ryan … Sports Commentator
- Christin Cooper … Sports Commentator
- Andy Mill … Sports Commentator
- Mary Carillo … Sports Commentator
- Ed Bradley … Sports Commentator
- Nancy Kerrigan … Athlete
- Tonya Harding … Athlete
- Oksana Baiul … Athlete
- Eva Twardokens … Athlete
- Diann Roffe-Steinrotter … Athlete
- Heidi Voelker … Athlete
- Cathy Turner … Athlete
- Tanja Szewczenko … Athlete
- Kirstie Marshall … Athlete
- Hilde Lid … Athlete
- Lina Tcheryasova … Athlete
- Tracy Evans … Athlete
- Marie Lindgren … Athlete
- Vegard Ulvang … Athlete
- Manuela Di Centa … Athlete
- Marit Wold … Athlete
- Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi … Athlete
- Lyubov Yegorova … Athlete
- Helene Nybraten … Athlete
- Suzanne King … Athlete
- Marie-Helene Ostlund … Athlete
- Deborah Compagnoni … Athlete
- Anita Wachter … Athlete
- Hilde Gerg … Athlete
- Carole Merle … Athlete
- Martina Ertl … Athlete
- Vreni Schneider … Athlete
- Pernilla Wiberg … Athlete
- Anna Parisien … Athlete
- Tommy Moe … Athlete
- Simon wi Rutene … Athlete
- Kris Feddersen … Athlete
- Trace Worthington … Athlete
- Andreas Schonbachler … Athlete
- Lloyd Langlois … Athlete
- Philippe LaRoche … Athlete
- Nancy Kerrigan … Athlete
- Eve LaRoche … Coach
- Shaquille O'Neal … Talent, Reebok Commercial