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[Durban Sandshark]

Part 7


Part 8 (complete with 7's complete end featuring end credits to "I Still Call Australia Home")


If you ever saw the old Soviet replays on YouTube, they go from one segment to another unseemless. That is, it doesn't really go in its entirety, minus the Parade of Nations and some other Olympic protocol--and omit some footage here and there. Still hoping for a BBC version of these. Hope to seven the full intro from Seven, maybe with the Ghengis Khan theme "Moscow" and some promos. All part of then-landmark A$1 million exclusive rights deal the network struck back in 1977 in a mixture of live and delayed satelitte coverage.

[Rols O'Bertilsson]

Durban Sandshark, on 23 January 2012 - 09:31 PM, said:

Hope to seven the full intro from Seven, maybe with the Ghengis Khan theme "Moscow" and some promos. All part of then-landmark A$1 million exclusive rights deal the network struck back in 1977 in a mixture of live and delayed satelitte coverage.

LOL, memories! Makes me wonder what the various networks will choose as their theme songs for London.

Thanks for all those clips, Durbs.

[Durban Sandshark]

Thanks Rols!

Just you wait until Balanced Australia starts uploading the full sets! Hopefully with intros and end credits!

[Durban Sandshark]

PS: Hope you enjoyed the Peter Allen's rendition to that song through 7's credits. Funnily enough, that song was used by NBC at the end of its telecast of the Sydney 2000 Olympics just before the closing credits. That time was performed by the Qantas Choir that footage of their video used from the airline's commercials.

Another good find here regarding the Moscow 1980 Opening Ceremony that I discovered. This time it's highlights taken from French TV. Actually, two reports from Moscow. The first one is by TF1's Bernard Gregoire with the other one--and far more extensive--comes from Antenna 2's (now France Televisions 2) Georges Bortoli. So far, this is the only other video here on You Tube, with the exception of the Moscow 1980 documentary "O Sport, Thou Art Peace" and that brief bit of the Aussies marching in at the last part of the 7's Moscow coverage, that has real good extensive footage of the Parade of Nations--and the immediate moments of the pitch after Sergei Belov lit the cauldron. Here, you see the Angolans (making their Olympic debut here), the Afghans, the Cubans, the Czechs, the Spanish, with France and Belgium marching with only the flagbearer and placard holder. Soviet gymnast Nikolai Andrianov (RIP) recites the athlete's oath in full here. The Australian contingent are here in this too with them taking pictures at the Olympic Hymn and starting to leave the stadium with the other Olympians--can't miss them with their striped green and gold jackets. The later-married couple from Montreal stop by to bring the Antwerp Olympic flag over to the Moscow mayor in the place of his Montreal counterpart Jean Drapeau, who couldn't attend. The extended rendition of the Soviet anthem follows this report with pictures of the former nation.



Part 1 of an odd sequenced recording--and some very interesting taping over with other stuff--of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Opening Ceremony from NBC as the network makes its return to stay for US Olympic broadcasting since the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics and would've been eight years were it not for the Moscow 1980 boycott. KBS' telecast this isn't, as we know about them. There, we get to see EVERYTHING commercial-free. It was shown live here in the US and the last Summer OC to take place fully in broad daylight. Nice to see the Olympic history sequence leading up to Seoul again since the telecast to begin with and the NBC Olympic intro (ABC still held the rights to Bugler's Dream at the time) in the face of North Korea, Ethiopia, Cuba, Albania, Seychelles, Nicaragua, and Madagascar all boycotting. The much-maligned Bryant Gumbel gets to be host here after being denied Moscow (he did do the Moscow daily highlights, however). No river festival, though. Or parade of nations.

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[Durban Sandshark]

Fixed


Part 2 (Oh yeah, remember all the controversy the American Olympians committed in the face of the South Koreans who were upset over the "Hi Mom!" signs when parading? If anybody can remind me, why were the South Koreans upset? Was it viewed as ugly Americanism and showboating? Commercials included.)

[BTHarner]

I don't think it was necessarily the signs that upset the Koreans as much as the lack of respect for the tradition of the parade as demonstrated by some in the American delegation. The let themselves get strung out, wandered off the track into the shade and get interspersed with the delegations that followed (poor Vanuatu, making it's Olympic debut had its grand entrance spoiled by a bunch of US fencers who carried a large sign to get NBC's attention because they figured they would be ignored in the network's coverage. The tactic worked). It really was a disrespectful showing that alienated a host country (that already had some anti-US sentiment over non-Olympic issues) that values reverence to tradition. One could say that it reminds them of Atlanta in 1996, but that was more poor execution of a novel idea and not ignorant behavior on part of the athletes.

[intoronto1125]

My highlight (thanks to Rols) was the bid bbq. LOL

[Durban Sandshark]

BTHarner, on 25 January 2012 - 09:20 PM, said:

I don't think it was necessarily the signs that upset the Koreans as much as the lack of respect for the tradition of the parade as demonstrated by some in the American delegation. The let themselves get strung out, wandered off the track into the shade and get interspersed with the delegations that followed (poor Vanuatu, making it's Olympic debut had its grand entrance spoiled by a bunch of US fencers who carried a large sign to get NBC's attention because they figured they would be ignored in the network's coverage. The tactic worked). It really was a disrespectful showing that alienated a host country (that already had some anti-US sentiment over non-Olympic issues) that values reverence to tradition. One could say that it reminds them of Atlanta in 1996, but that was more poor execution of a novel idea and not ignorant behavior on part of the athletes.

You're right it was more of a poor structure (the ramp in this case) in Atlanta. Also, don't forget eight years later in Atlanta, the Canadians slowed things down as some took pictures of themselves at the Olympic flagpoles. NBC showed that, not so much on the CBC version.

Regarding Seoul and the alienation, Korean culture, as is the case with other East Asian ones, do value reverence to tradition and respect towards elders. The US isn't as old as Korean culture that was cultivated for numerous centuries. Not to mention the fact that the US government was known to support the military South Korean governments from Generals Park Chun Hee to Chun Do Hwan to Roh Tae Woo at that point while the economy was rapidly rising in this span from where it was in the 50s and 60s (before it turned civilian for good).

The beginning moments of BBC One's (or BBC Sport, if you prefer) coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony with Sir Steven Redgrave, Sue Barker, Michael Johnson, Huw Edwards, Hazel Irvine, Carrie Grace, Sir Matt Pinsent(?) complete with a military band.

[Durban Sandshark]

Calgary's anniversary is coming up soon in a matter of days. The following from the 1988 Calgary Closing Ceremony at McMahaon Stadium marked the end of an era for ABC that it hasn't returned to though it tried since through ESPN, which is really now the ABC Sports department and then some. For ABC, "the Olympic tradition" ended right here in Calgary. Nice to see all of the ABC Olympic logos from each Games it televised in the intro, though it is interesting to see them interspersed with other sports footage along the way like the NBC Sports reflection of the Rumble In The Jungle (in part). Despite what Frank Gifford says tells you here, there is no Champions Figure Skating Gala in these videos. But there is a Bonnie Blair post-speed skating interview. Take it away, Jim and Peter (RIP to both)

Part 1


Part 2 (notably includes some Canadian figure skating legends on the rink)

[Ikarus360]

Between 9:21 and 9:42 are excerpts of the opening ceremony of the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split, in the former Yugoslavia (today in Croatia). Not bad for it's time (and the priestesses remind me of Montreal)



davidpremier posted (after a long time) a new excerpt from the Alberville '92 OC