OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, THE XV {1988 CALGARY OLYMPICS} {1988/02/25}, PART 2 (TV)
Summary
This program presents a portion of coverage of the 1988 XV Olympic Winter Games from Calgary. Highlights of this portion include coverage of the following events and topics:
Anchor sports commentator Jim McKay presides throughout this portion and introduces various events and highlights.
Sports commentator Al Trautwig highlights the final standings for men's giant slalom: winning gold is Alberto Tomba (Italy) with a time of 2:06.37, winning silver is Hubert Strolz (Austria) with a time of 2:07.41, and winning bronze is Pirmin Zurbriggen (Switzerland) with a time of 2:08.39.
Sports commentator Patrick Lang interviews Tomba about his gold-medal win, and sports commentator Jack Edwards interviews Zurbriggen about winning the bronze.
McKay covers the medal ceremony for the men's giant slalom competition: featuring Tomba, Strolz and Zurbriggen as well as Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the International Olympic Committee.
Sports commentators Tim McCarver and Jeff Chumas cover the men's freestyle aerial skiing event, featuring Jean-Marc Rozon (Canada), Didier Meda (France), Andreas Schoenbaechler (Switzerland), Lloyd Langlois (Canada), and Kris Feddersen (USA). McKay interviews Langlois on the thrill of freestyle skiing.
McKay covers women's figure skater Debi Thomas' (USA) training before her upcoming event.
Sports commentators Dick Button and Peggy Fleming provide a retrospective on Olympic figure skating, featuring Ronald Robertson (USA), silver medalist at the 1956 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, and Jill Trenary (USA).
McKay, Button and Fleming cover women's individual figure skating, featuring Simone Koch (East Germany), Midori Ito (Japan), Anna Kondrashova (USSR), Agnes Gosselin (France), and Katarina Witt (East Germany).
Notable commercials and/or promos include the following: Scott Hamilton for Blue Cross Blue Shield; Nancy Kerrigan for Coca-Cola; Jamie Lee Curtis and O.J. Simpson and Arnold Palmer for Hertz.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 25, 1988 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:02:33
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:15970
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1988, Winter, Calgary; Olympics; Alpine Skiing, giant slalom men; Figure Skating, individual women; Freestyle Skiing, aerials men
- SERIES RUN: ABC
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Band-Aids
- TV - Commercials - Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance
- TV - Commercials - Bud Light beers
- TV - Commercials - Campbell's soups
- TV - Commercials - Coca-Cola soft drinks
- TV - Commercials - Ford automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Hertz rental car services
- TV - Commercials - McDonald's restaurants
- TV - Commercials - New York Life insurance
- TV - Commercials - Nutra Sweet
- TV - Commercials - Visa credit cards
- TV - Commercials - Wrangler
- TV - Commercials - Xerox
CREDITS
- Jim McKay … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Jeff Chumas … Sports Commentator
- Tim McCarver … Sports Commentator
- Peggy Fleming … Sports Commentator
- Patrick Lang … Sports Commentator
- Al Trautwig … Sports Commentator
- Jack Edwards … Sports Commentator
- Dick Button … Sports Commentator
- Alberto Tomba … Athlete
- Hubert Strolz … Athlete
- Pirmin Zurbriggen … Athlete
- Jean-Marc Rozon … Athlete
- Didier Meda … Athlete
- Lloyd Langlois … Athlete
- Andreas Schoenbaechler … Athlete
- Kris Feddersen … Athlete
- Debi Thomas … Athlete
- Simone Koch … Athlete
- Midori Ito … Athlete
- Anna Kondrashova … Athlete
- Agnes Gosselin … Athlete
- Katarina Witt … Athlete
- Juan Antonio Samaranch … Cameo
- Ronald Robertson … Cameo
- Jill Trenary … Cameo
- Scott Hamilton … Talent, Blue Cross Commercial
- Nancy Kerrigan … Talent, Coca-Cola Commercial
- Jamie Lee Curtis … Talent, Hertz Commercial
- Arnold Palmer … Talent, Hertz Commercial
- O.J. Simpson … Talent, Hertz Commercial