GAMES OF THE XXIII OLYMPIAD, THE {1984 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS} {1984/08/05}, PART 2: WOMEN'S MARATHON, PART 2 (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1984 Summer Games of the XXIII Olympiad from Los Angeles. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Sports commentators Al Michaels, Kathrine Switzer, Bill Rogers and Marty Liquori cover the women's marathon.
Michaels provides the women's marathon standings after the six-mile mark, with Joan Benoit (USA) in first with a time of 34:19; Julie Brown (USA) in second place; Ingrid Kristiansen (Norway) in third place and Grete Waitz (Norway) in fourth place.
Michaels provides Benoit's seven-mile split time of 39:36; her average per mile is 5:40.
Sports commentator Diana Nyad explains how important it is to walk, jog or run, as it will delay heart disease, according to Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper. Top marathoners such as Alberto Salazar will run 200 miles per week.
Michaels provides women's marathon standings after nine miles with Benoit in first place with a time of 50:04; Brown in second place; Kristiansen in third place; Marie-Louise Hamrin (Sweden) in fourth place; Waitz in fifth place and Rosa Mota (Portugal) in sixth place.
Michaels provides Benoit's 13.1-mile split time of 1:11:54 and an average per mile is 5:29.
Sports commentator (unidentified in this portion) profiles thirty-year-old Waitz: her husband convinced her to start running marathons, and she gets up every morning at 5:00 and trains with her marathon runner brother, Jan Anderson.
Michaels covers the women's marathon runners, including Waitz, Mota, Laura Fogli (Italy), Sylvia Ruegger (Canada), Kristiansen, Tuija Toivonen (Finland), Lorraine Moller (New Zealand), Carla Beurskens (Holland), Hamrin, Lisa Martin (Austria) and Anne Audain (New Zealand).
Michaels provides the women's marathon runners sixteen-mile split time for the lead pack of 1:27:57 and the average per mile is 5:30 with Ruegger, Waitz, Kristiansen, Mota, Fogli and Toivonen.
Michaels discusses the women's marathon runners lead pack with ten miles to go with Ruegger, Waitz, Kristiansen, Mota and Fogli.
Michaels covers women's marathon leader Benoit in her nineteenth mile.
Michaels provides the women's marathon runners lead pack in their nineteenth mile with Waitz, Kristiansen and Mota in the top three spots.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: August 5, 1984 11:30 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:16:16
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T86:0445
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1984, Summer, Los Angeles; Olympics; Track and Field, marathon women
- SERIES RUN: N/A
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CREDITS
- Al Michaels … Sports Commentator
- Bill Rogers … Sports Commentator
- Kathrine Switzer … Sports Commentator
- Marty Liquori … Sports Commentator
- Diana Nyad … Sports Commentator
- Julie Brown … Athlete
- Joan Benoit … Athlete
- Grete Waitz … Athlete
- Ingrid Kristianen … Athlete
- Marie-Louis "Midde" Hamrin … Athlete
- Rosa Mota … Athlete
- Laura Fogli … Athlete
- Sylvie Ruegger … Athlete
- Tuija Toivonen … Athlete
- Lorraine Moller … Athlete
- Carla Beurskens … Athlete
- Lisa Martin … Athlete
- Anne Audain … Athlete
- Jan Anderson
- Kenneth H. Cooper
- Alberto Salazar