GAMES OF THE XXIII OLYMPIAD, THE {1984 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS} {1984/07/27}, PART 2: PREVIEW (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:
Anchor sports commentator Jim McKay presides throughout this portion and introduces various events and highlights.
Sports commentator Keith Jackson interviews USA men's basketball coach Bob Knight regarding how well the USA team will need to play in order to win the gold medal.
Jackson and sports commentator Digger Phelps discuss how the USA men's team will have to adjust to international rules versus professional basketball rules.
McKay introduces former synchronized swimmer Esther Williams, who provides the past and present of synchronized swimming.
Sports commentator Tim Brant profiles men's polo as a violent game until the rules were changed; explaining that it is the oldest team sport and that the USA has not won in eighty years. However, the USA team feels they can capture the gold medal this year.
News journalist Peter Jennings interviews Yuri Ustimenko regarding the Russians.
McKay covers Olympic torch runner and diver Samuel "Sammy" Lee, who won gold and bronze at the 1948 Olympic Summer Games in London and gold at the 1952 Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki, on Olympic Boulevard.
McKay profiles former Olympic gymnasts Peter Kormann (USA), who won bronze at the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal; Nikolai Andrianov (USSR), who won a total of fifteen Olympic medals between 1972-1980; Shun Fujimoto (Japan) who won gold at the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal; Vera Cáslavská (Czechoslovakia), who won seven gold medal and four silver between 1960-1968; Olga Korbut (USSR), who won three gold and one silver at the 1972 Olympic Summer Games in Munich and one gold and one silver at the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal; and Nadia Comaneci (Romania), who won three gold, one silver, one bronze and seven record-setting perfect scores at the 1976 Olympic Summer Games in Montreal, as well as two gold and two silver medals at the 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow.
Sports commentators Jack Whitaker and Gordon Maddux cover the USSR and East Germany Olympic boycott, explaining the USA gymnastics team will still have competition with the Romanians and Chinese and that the USA will have a better chance to win many medals in gymnastics.
Whitaker introduces sport commentator Kurt Thomas, who is covering the men's gymnastics events.
Thomas interviews gymnast Peter Vidmar (USA) regarding how well his team is prepared.
Sports commentator Cathy Rigby McCoy interviews Mary Lou Retton (USA) regarding her upcoming competition.
Sports commentator Roy Gandolf reviews the process and preparation the newsroom encounters for the Olympics.
Sports commentator Howard Cosell interviews Peter Ueberroth, President of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, regarding the security at the Games and how the smog will affect the athletes and the boycotts.
McKay covers Olympic torch runner and professional basketball player Jamaal Wilkes.
McKay covers the past and present of men's and women's marathon runners.
McKay interviews David Wolper, Commissioner of Olympic Ceremonies, regarding the opening ceremony.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: July 27, 1984 Friday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 01:07:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T86:0419
- GENRE: Sports
- SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; U.S. Olympic Archive, presented by Gordon Crawford, The; Olympic Games, 1984, Summer, Los Angeles; Olympics
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Atari
- TV - Commercials - Canon
- TV - Commercials - Dean Witter
- TV - Commercials - Lipton
- TV - Promos - Jessie
CREDITS
- Jim McKay … Anchor Sports Commentator
- Keith Jackson … Sports Commentator
- Richard "Digger" Phelps … Sports Commentator
- Tim Brant … Sports Commentator
- Kurt Thomas … Sports Commentator
- Gordon Maddux … Sports Commentator
- Esther Williams … Sports Commentator
- Peter Jennings … Sports Commentator
- Cathy Rigby McCoy … Sports Commentator
- Ray Gandolf … Sports Commentator
- Jack Whitaker … Sports Commentator
- Howard Cosell … Sports Commentator
- Peter Vidmar … Athlete
- Mary Lou Retton … Athlete
- Bob Knight … Coach
- Peter Ueberroth … Guest
- David Wolper … Guest
- Yuri Ustimenko … Guest
- Samuel "Sammy" Lee … Guest
- Peter Kormann
- Nikolai Andrianov
- Shun Fujimoto
- Vera Cáslavská
- Olga Korbut … Athlete
- Nadia Comaneci … Athlete
- Jamaal Wilkes