OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XIII {1980 LAKE PLACID OLYMPICS} {1980/02/22}, PART 1: {USA VS. USSR ICE HOCKEY} {OLYMPICS} (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1980 XIII Olympic Winter Games from Lake Placid. Highlights include coverage of the following events and topics:
Anchor sports commentator Jim McKay presides throughout this portion and reports on the excitement of the fans on Lake Placid's Main Street.
McKay explains the circumstances of the men's ice hockey finals, noting that the USA team is the underdog, being an amateur team comprised of young players, and explaining that the winner of the USA vs. USSR match will go on to play Finland for the gold medal.
Sports commentators Al Michaels and Ken Dryden report on the USA vs. USSR hockey game from the Olympic Center. In the first period, Vladimir Krutov (USSR) scores the first goal by deflecting a shot past goalie Jim Craig (USA). Craig saves a number of goals, and William "Buzz" Schneider (USA) scores and brings the score to 1-1.
Sergei Makarov (USSR) then scores another goal, bringing the score to 2-1. Neal Broten (USA) narrowly avoids scoring against the Soviets, and Mark Johnson (USA) scores in the very last second of the period, bringing the score to 2-2. Referee Karl-Gustav Kaisla y questions the validity of the shot, but then allows it.
On Whiteface Mountain, sports commentators Frank Gifford and Bob Beattie preside over the men's slalom finals, and Beattie explains the rules and specifics of the competition.
In the first run, Phil Mahre (USA) skies down the 600-yard hill and achieves a time of 54.31. Christian Orlainsky (Austria) is disqualified for knocking into the poles, and Andreas Wenzel (Lichtenstein) also encounters trouble but finishes the run with a time of 54.63, putting him in second place.
Paul Frommelt (Lichtenstein) is also disqualified. Jacques Luthy (Switzerland) achieves a time of 53.70, knocking Wenzel out of second place, and Hans Enn (Austria) ties with Lüthy with his time of 53.70.
Bojan Križaj (Yugoslavia) appears to go the wrong way down the course and is disqualified. Christian Neureuther (West Germany) achieves a time of 54.37. Peter Luscher (Switzerland) is also disqualified.
McKay profiles Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden), who won the gold in the previous week's giant slalom competition, at his home in Tarnaby. He explains how he uses a unicycle to train and endures a degree of celebrity in his small town, preferring a quiet life of fishing to the glamour of big cities.
Stenmark performs in the first run and achieves a time of 53.89, putting him in fourth place. Križaj is given a second chance due to possible misplacement of the poles and achieves a time of 53.79. Beattie briefly interviews Mahre.
McKay profiles hockey player Mark Johnson (USA), currently living in a house with forty other teammates and family members, including his mother Martha and girlfriend Leslie Schorr, though his father Bob, a hockey coach, is absent. He discusses the danger of injury posed by his relatively small size and then greets speed-skater Eric Heiden (USA), a childhood friend from Madison, Wisconsin, who has won a total of five gold medals at the Lake Placid Games.
Michaels and Dryden preside over the second period of the USA-USSR hockey game, and goalie Vladislav Tretiak (USSR) is replaced by teammate Vladimir Myshkin.
John Harrington (USA) is sent to the penalty box for holding, and Aleksandr Maltsev (USSR) scores against Craig, bringing the score to 3-2. Craig is given a penalty for delaying the game, served by teammate Eric Strobel (USA).
Craig briefly goes down after a pile-on, but resumes play. Ken Morrow (USA) is sent to the penalty box for cross-checking, and Yuri Lebedev (USSR) is penalized for "unsportsmanlike conduct." The second period concludes with the score still at 3-2.
At the men's slalom, Križaj is officially disqualified for his earlier error. Beattie interviews Mahre about his serious 1979 accident in which his ankle was shattered, and he expresses his desire to win this year.
In the second run, Neureuther achieves a time of 50.77, for a combined total time of 1:45.14, making him the leader. Stenmark then replaces him with his time of 50.37, for a combined total of 1:44.26.
Lüthy achieves a time of 51.36, for a total of 1:45.06. Enn achieves a time of 51.42, for a total of 1:45.12, putting him in third place.
Phil Mahre (USA) achieves a time of 51.45, for a total of 1:44.76, meaning that he has won the silver medal. Ingemar Stenmark (Sweden) wins the gold medal, and Jacques Lüthy (Switzerland) wins the bronze.
McKay profiles 22-year-old hockey goalie Craig at his home in Boston, where he discusses his lifelong love of the sport. His father Donald comments on his wife's death three years previously, and the challenges of raising eight children alone.
In the third period, the USSR team is given a penalty for elbowing, and Krutov is penalized for high-sticking. Johnson makes another successful shot and brings the score to 3-3.
Craig saves another goal, and Mike Eruzione (USA) scores another goal, bringing the USA team into the lead with a score of 4-3.
The USA team attempts to "milk the clock" as the third period runs out. Craig blocks several more shots, and the game ends with Michaels' call of "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" as USA wins. The team celebrates as the commentators explain that they will now play against Finland for the gold medal.
McKay comments on the remarkable upset of the USA team's victory, and sports commentator Jim Lampley interviews interviews Craig and Eruzione along with their families about the win. McKay then previews upcoming events.
Notable commercials include Jean-Claude Killy for American Express credit cards; Charlie Daniels for Skoal smokeless tobacco; and Shirley Babashoff for Cotton Incorporated.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 22, 1980 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:00082
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1980, Winter, Lake Placid; Olympics; Sports; Ice Hockey, ice hockey men; Alpine Skiing, slalom men
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1980
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CREDITS
- Jim McKay … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Al Michaels … Sports Commentator
- Ken Dryden … Sports Commentator
- Frank Gifford … Sports Commentator
- Bob Beattie … Sports Commentator
- Jim Lampley … Sports Commentator
- Jim Craig … Athlete
- Vladislav Tretiak … Athlete
- William "Buzz" Schneider … Athlete
- Sergei Makarov … Athlete
- Neal Broten … Athlete
- Mark Johnson … Athlete
- Vladimir Myshkin … Athlete
- Phil Mahre … Athlete
- Christian Orlainsky … Athlete
- Andreas Wenzel … Athlete
- Paul Frommelt … Athlete
- Jacques Lüthy … Athlete
- Hans Enn … Athlete
- Bojan Križaj … Athlete
- Christian Neureuther … Athlete
- Peter Luscher … Athlete
- Ingemar Stenmark … Athlete
- Eric Heiden … Athlete
- John Harrington … Athlete
- Aleksandr Maltsev … Athlete
- Eric Strobel … Athlete
- Ken Morrow … Athlete
- Yuri Lebedev … Athlete
- Vladimir Krutov … Athlete
- Mike Eruzione … Athlete
- Karl-Gustav Kaisla … Referee
- Martha Johnson … Guest
- Leslie Schorr … Guest
- Donald Craig … Guest
- Bob Johnson
- Jean-Claude Killy … Talent, American Express credit cards commercial
- Charlie Daniels … Talent, Skoal smokeless tobacco
- Shirley Babashoff … Talent, Cotton Incorporated commercial