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If this has been posted before, then I apologize, but I did a search of this board and didn't find it: Valeria Lynch and Jairo perform "Toda America" at the climax of the opening ceremony of the 1995 Pan American Games. A real showstopper. The maestro conducting the orchestra behind them is Lalo Schifrin who composed this song as well as the official fanfare of the 1987 Pan American Games and the theme song to the TV show Mission Impossible. The clip is unfortunately of a low visual quality. Enjoy!

Newly posted on youtube! Nice (though silent) footage of highlights of the Opening Ceremony of the 1975 Pan American Games at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City:

I found the complete NHK broadcasts of the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games ceremonies on a Japanese video site called nicozon (or nicovideo). The clips are downloadable but for some reason there is only sound the picture is black - although the original Japanese language graphics do appear on the black screen. I don't know if it is a codec problem? Does anyone here know why the video is not displaying correctly? Here are the direct links to download the videos. The first link is to the main page for that video, the second link is to the download page, and the third link is the direct link for downloading the .Mp4 file. Tokyo 1964 Opening Ceremony 10-10-1964 http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm24657490 http://www.nicozon.net/downloader.html?video_id=sm24657490&eco=0 http://smile-fnl51.nicovideo.jp/smile?m=24657490.7169 Tokyo 1964 Closing Ceremony 10-24-1964 http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm24764686 http://www.nicozon.net/downloader.html?video_id=sm24764686&eco=0 http://smile-fnl51.nicovideo.jp/smile?m=24764686.17185

The Innsbruck 1976 Closing Ceremony has now been uploaded to the Olympic Channel as well. What a nice Christmas present from the IOC to finally see these two ceremonies in their entirety. I wonder if any other winter games ceremonies will be uploaded in the lead up to Pyeongchang in these next few weeks?

Here is an interesting find: Radio Moscow's English Language Service's coverage of the Moscow 1980 Closing Ceremony! Features a running description of the ceremony in English - including Lord Killanin's entire speech without voiceover. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Moscow-Olympics-Closing-August-3-1980.mp3 Radio Moscow's English Language Service's coverage of the highlights of the day's Olympic events on July 27, 1980. http://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/1980-moscow-olympics-highlights.mp3 Both clips are from the website PastDaily and are from the Gordon Skene Audio Collection.

Have you heard about this novel - it manages to extend its plot to include both the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster. I'm currently reading it and it is really good! Flight From Berlin by David John Format: Paperback | 372 pages Publication date: 25 Jun 2013 Publisher: Bourbon Street Books ISBN139780062091598 August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis' ruthless brutality, and he's determined to report the truth. Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got her expelled from the U.S. Olympic swim team, Eleanor is now covering the games as a celebrity columnist for newspapers in the States. While Berlin welcomes the world, the Nazi capital becomes a terrifying place for Richard and Eleanor. Their chance encounter at a reception thrown by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels leads them into the center of a treacherous game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to destroy the leadership of the Third Reich. Drawn together by danger and passion, surrounded by enemies, Richard and Eleanor must pull off a daring plan to survive. But one wrong move could be their last. Set in America and Europe, David John's Flight from Berlin is a masterful blend of fact and fiction, drama and suspense. A riveting story of love, courage, and betrayal that culminates in a breathtaking race against the forces of evil, it will keep you spellbound until its thrilling end. Eleanor Emerson is a fictionalized version of real-life Olympian Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who was infamously kicked off the 1936 team by Avery Brundage on the voyage over - and stayed in Berlin to cover the games as a journalist. One of the real-life persons who appear in the novel is William Dodd who was United States Ambassador to Germany at the time - whose real ambassadorship was chronicled in the recent book "In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson.

Last week was the 45th anniversary of the saddest moment in Olympic history - the Munich massacre. To mark this sad anniversary I have located the complete ARD broadcast of the Memorial Service held in Munich's Olympic Stadium on September 6, 1972 in 6 parts. You can watch the preview versions free online at these links: Part 1 - Munich Philharmonic performs Beethoven's Eroica Symphony http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/25619 Part 2 - Remarks of Willi Daume, President of the Munich Organizing Committee http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/25625 Part 3 - Remarks of Shmuel Lalkin, Head of the Israeli Delegation http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/25623 Part 4 - Commemoration of the 11 Israeli victims http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/25609 Part 5 - Remarks of Gustav Heinemann, President of the Federal Republic of Germany http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/26083 Part 6 - Remarks of Avery Brundage, President of the IOC http://www.onlinefootage.tv/video/show/id/25607 This Post in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes who lost their lives in Munich.

Here is a nice new find: ABC's tape delayed broadcast of the 1991 Special Olympics World Summer Games Opening Ceremony at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, hosted by Frank Gifford. Prince's performance of "Diamonds and Pearls" at the ceremony is not shown in the telecast, but a video of his complete performance is on the Dailymotion video website. I noticed that too, and my favorite part is the human vase at the end. They outdid the 1980 ceremony - instead of five small vases they did one GIANT vase and under the floodlights and with that same beautiful dramatic music it was spectacular. And they found a way to "light" the cauldron with it, too!

I thought these were posted before, but here are the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne (BBC coverage). The Dame Edna segment is in the closing ceremony it starts at 1:21:30 when she unexpectedly interrupts an athlete speaker and ends at 1:32:55. BTW, these were among my all-time favorite ceremonies - the visuals were absolutely stunning! I have the TVNZ coverage of these ceremonies (long story!) and the TVNZ announcers commented that the Indian announcers in the booth to their left had a horrified look on their faces when all of these Dame Ednas started marching out on the field! (lol)

Are you confusing it with the 2006 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony where they had a whole infield full of "1000 Commonwealth Dames" (i.e. Dame Edna lookalikes) to accompany Dame Edna's song?

Well, I apologize in advance, because this is gonna be long...but Baron Pierre asked for it! (lol) Here is what can be found on youtube of Liberty Weekend the 1986 rededication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Liberty Weekend was produced by David L. Wolper, the man who produced the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Opening Ceremony on July 3 The Parade of Tall Ships (Operation Sail '86) on July 4 The Boston Pops Concert July 4 The Classical Music Concert on July 5 in Central Park (Some 800,000 people crammed into the park to watch the concert - a world record at the time.) This is from French TV. And finally, here is the only clip of the July 6 closing ceremonies at Giants Stadium on youtube (aside from the one posted by Baron Pierre above) - Liza Minnelli sings New York in HD. And, finally, here is a poor quality recording of 4 and 1/2 hours of highlights of the entire weekend's festivities - which may contain footage not included above.

I agree with BTHarner - The biggest mistake the USOC made with the National Sports Festival/U.S. Olympic Festival was using the generic North, South, West, and East as teams. I think they should have had state teams and only individual events - no team sports - I think it would have generated much more interest from the average person. Rooting for your home state is much more exciting than rooting for some generic direction - Go East! sounds like a travel direction rather than a cheer. (lol)

Here is a list of Olympic Books - some I've read and some I have not: (Sorry the list is so long...) + indicates books I've actually read if anybody wants to ask me about them. FICTION THE GAMES+ by Patricia McLinn In sixteen days, medals can be won and hearts can be lost... Tessa Rutledge, once an Olympic champion figure skater, returns to the Games as a coach, encountering her first love and only heartbreak and testing her ability to forgive. Alpine skier Kyle Armstrong has made a terrible mistake that could cost her a shot at Olympic gold as well as any hope of reconciling with the man she loves. Biathlete Rikki Lodge thinks she’s just happy to be at the Games, until she meets a hockey player who demands that she do what she’s never done before: put it all on the line. Let The Games begin! (Panamfan's note: Romance novel set in the Olympic Village during the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics.) CLOSING CEREMONIES by Harold king Unknown Binding: 370 pages Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan (January 1, 1979) Language: English ISBN: 0698109503 Paperback Publisher: Pocket (August 15, 1980) Language: English ISBN: 0671833960 OPENING CEREMONIES BERLIN, AUGUST 1, 1936 Guarded by a contingent fo 40,000 Brown-shirts, Adolf Hitler strides into the world's grandest stadium, signals the lighting of the Olympic flame and declares the XI Olympics officially open -- and a young athlete -- Eduard Reichmann -- dedicates his life to his Fuehrer. PARAGUAY, JULY, 1976 In a daring raid on a secret Nazi shrine, three invaders die. One -- Aaron Miller -- escapes with an awesome relic: the urn containing Hitler’s ashes. Now the last terrified Nazi chieftains have set loose Das Kettenhund to retrieve it -- Hitler’s "Chain Dog," Eduard Reichmann. But Reichmann has a plan of his own -- a plan that requires the death of a world leader...a plan that will pit him agains the secret agents of several nations...against his fellow Nazis...against his one long-thwarted needs...against a beautiful, tormented Nazi hunter...and against a vengeance-obsessed American named Aaron Miller. Soon they will meet. In an unscheduled Olympic contest to-the-death. In the final seconds of the...CLOSING CEREMONIES (Panamfan's note: This novel climaxes with an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth at the closing ceremony of the Montreal Olympics.) HAMMERED GOLD by William Oscar Johnson Paperback Publisher: Pocket (October 1, 1982) Language: English ISBN: 0671414879 1984. LOS ANGELES. THE MOST CRUCIAL CONTEST THE WORLD HAS EVER WITNISSED...is about to begin, as top athletes meet to do battle in the Olympics. A sports war that media giant, MBC. will beam around the earth -- whose combatants are unwilling pawns in an East-West power struggle. FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, NIGHT AND DAY...one ruthless fanatic has driven a secret plot to the sinister finish that will leave the best Olympic contenders dead, crippled, ruined. ONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP THEM...Joe Ordway, sports broadcaster for MBC, who will now risk his reputation, his lover and his life -- to run to ground a cunning assassin and the Gamesman -- the unknown Mastermind of this deadly intrigue, still trusted by everyone -- even the President of the United States! Going For The Gold+ by Emma Lathen Hardback Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1981) Language: English John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, is not thinking of anything out of the ordinary -- except, perhaps, a few gold medals -- when he goes to Lake Placid to join the Sloan’s president at the Winter Olympics. And when he watches the practice run of Yves Bisson, the new French wonder, nothing more is on his mind than the thrill of the ski jump and the crisp perfection of the weather. But the peaceful day is shattered when the graceful skier collapses in mid-air and tumbles, skis flailing, to the ground. Once again John Putnam Thatcher has landed in the midst of murder... The teams demand protection against suspected terrorists. The Sloan’s harassed branch manager reports that over a half-million dollars’ worth of counterfeit checks have surfaced. A well-liked female athlete is accused of taking drugs while competing. And a sinister coach, a marooned French tour group, and a sudden blizzard add to the chaos. It takes Thatcher’s level-headed thinking and ingenious investigating to unscramble the conflicting evidence. Then the grim truth is exposed...and what follows is a race against time more important than any Olympic trial -- a race to prevent yet another murder. Death Spiral: Murder at the Winter Olympics+ by Meredith Phillips Paperback: 230 pages Publisher: Capra Pr (February 1, 1984) Language: English ISBN: 0960267611 Hardcover: 230 pages Publisher: Borgo Press (April 1, 1989) Language: English ISBN: 0809542064 It’s a cold war on ice as love and defection breed murder at the Winter Olympics. Who killed world champion skater Dima Kuznetsov, the "playboy of the Eastern world": old or new lovers, hockey right-wingers, jealous rivals, the KGB? Will skating sleuth Lesley Grey discover the murderer before she herself is hunted down? (panamfan's note: This novel is set during a fictious version of the 1992 Winter Olympics which are held in Squaw Valley (1960 host) instead of Albertville and is very detailed in its description of Olympic stuff - right down to the opening and closing ceremonies - one of my personal favorites.) OLYMPIC AFFAIR: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero+ by Terry Frei Though not a member of the National Socialist Party, Leni Riefenstahl was the film-maker darling of the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. First a successful dancer and actress in Germany, she became more notorious when she produced and directed Victory of Faith and Triumph of the Will, the chilling documentaries about Nazi Party congresses at Nuremberg. Glenn Morris was an All-American farm boy from tiny Simla, Colorado, as well as a former college football star and student body president at the school now known as Colorado State University. At the 1936 Olympics, he won the decathlon, earning him the label of “the world’s greatest athlete.” Among the American heroes at the Berlin Games, he was considered second only to Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. Riefenstahl and Morris: An unlikely couple? Perhaps, but in her 1987 memoirs, the German filmmaker belatedly confirmed she had an affair with the American athlete during the filming of Olympia, Riefenstahl’s documentary about the Berlin Games. In fact, she portrayed it as much more than a dalliance. Morris, who went on to Hollywood, the National Football League, and military service, spoke sparingly of the relationship, but mused late in life that he "should have stayed in Germany with Leni.” In Olympic Affair, Terry Frei turns to historical fiction in a novel researched in much the same fashion as his widely praised works of non-fiction, including Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming and Third Down and a War to Go. Using deduction, imagination and narrative skill to augment documented fact (as well as debunk myths), Frei tells the story of their ill-fated affair…and beyond. For Morris, seemingly destined for lifetime celebrity and accomplishment, the relationship ultimately was toxic. NON-FICTION Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games+ by Michael Llewellyn Smith Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Profile Books Ltd; First Edition edition (May 27, 2004) America's First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904+ by George R. Matthews Series: SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE (Book 1) Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: University of Missouri (July 22, 2005) St. Louis Olympics, 1904 (MO) (Images of America) by George Matthews (Author), Sandra Marshall (Author) Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (May 18, 2003) The First London Olympics: 1908 by Rebecca Jenkins Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Piatkus (May 26, 2012) The 1908 Olympics: The First London Games by Keith Baker Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: SportsBooks Ltd; SPORT edition (February 7, 2008) Olympic Follies: The Madness and Mayhem of the 1908 London Games: A Cautionary Tale by Graeme Kent Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: JR Books (June 1, 2008) Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze by David Davis Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (June 19, 2012) The 1912 Stockholm Olympics: Essays on the Competitions, the People, the City by Leif Yttergren (Author, Editor), Hans Bolling (Author, Editor) Paperback: 292 pages Publisher: McFarland (November 5, 2012) Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World by Andy Bull (Author) Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Avery (October 20, 2015) Xth Olympiad Los Angeles, 1932: Olympic Photograph Collection by Delmar Watson (Author) Hardcover Publisher: Obunsha (1984) The Nazi Olympics by Richard Mandell Binding: Hard cover Publisher: Macmillan, New York Date Published: [1971] Description: xvi, 316 p. illus. , map (on lining papers), ports. 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936+ by David Clay Large Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition (April 17, 2007) Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games by Anton Rippon Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: Pen and Sword (October 24, 2012) Hitler's Olympics: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games by Christopher Hilton Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: The History Press; First Edition edition (October 25, 2006) Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First edition (February 1, 2007) The Games of '36 : A Pictorial History of the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany+ by Stan Cohen (Author), Carol Van Valkenburg (Editor) Paperback Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company; First Edition edition (April 1996) Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl (Author), Kevin Brownlow (Introduction), Monique Berlioux (Foreword) Hardcover: 287 pages Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st U.S. ed edition (October 1994) Berlin Games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream by Guy Walters Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow; First Edition edition (August 8, 2006) The 1948 Olympics: How London Rescued the Games by Bob Phillips (Author) Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: SportsBooks Ltd (April 10, 2007) The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 by Janie Hampton Hardcover: 350 pages Publisher: Aurum Press (2008) Snowball's Chance: The Story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games Squaw Valley & Lake Tahoe+ by David C. Antonucci Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: BookSurge Publishing; Reprint edition (March 28, 2012) The 1960 Winter Olympics (Images of Sports)+ by David C. Antonucci Series: Images of Sports Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (November 11, 2013) Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World+ by David Maraniss Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (July 1, 2008) Not the Triumph But the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete by Amy Bass Series: Critical American Studies Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (October 2002) Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics by Richard Hoffer Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Free Press; First Edition edition (September 22, 2009) Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath 1st Edition by Douglas Hartmann Hardcover: 376 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2004 Spectacular Mexico: Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics (A Quadrant Book) by Luis M. Castañeda Series: A Quadrant Book Paperback: 344 pages Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (November 1, 2014) Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games 1st Edition by Kevin B. Witherspoon Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2008) Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games+ by David Clay Large Hardcover: 396 pages Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition (April 16, 2012) One Day in September by Simon Reeve Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1st U.S. ed edition (September 1, 2000) The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Kay Schiller (Author), Chris Young (Author) Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism (Book 42) Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: University of California Press (August 3, 2010) The blood of Israel: The massacre of the Israeli athletes, the Olympics, 1972 by Serge Groussard Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Morrow (1975) Stolen Glory: The U.S., the Soviet Union, and the Olympic Basketball Game That Never Ended by Taps Gallagher (Author), Mike Brewster (Author) Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: GM Books (2012) Five Ring Circus: The Montreal Olympics by Jack Ludwig Edition: 1st ed. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Doubleday Canada; Toronto Date Published: 1976. 248 p. , [8] leaves of plates: ill. ; 24 cm. The Montreal Olympics: An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games by Paul Charles Howell (Author) Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (June 1, 2008) The Billion-Dollar Game: Jean Drapeau and the 1976 Olympics (A Last post book) by Nick Auf der Maur Series: A Last post book Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: Lorimer A Long Shot to Glory: How Lake Placid Saved the Winter Olympics and Restored the Nation's Pride+ by Michael J Burgess (Author) Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (September 14, 2013) The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey (Author), Jim Craig (Foreword) Paperback: 273 pages Publisher: Crown Publishers; Reprint edition (October 25, 2005) One Goal: A Chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by John Powers (Author), Arthur C. Kaminsky (Author) Hardcover: 257 pages Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (February 1984) Going for the Gold: How the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Won at Lake Placid by Tim Wendel Hardcover: 131 pages Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co (January 1981) Olympic Sports and Propaganda Games: Moscow 1980 by Baruch A. Hazan Hardcover: 250 pages Publisher: Transaction Publishers (January 1, 1982) Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes Hardcover: 356 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 27, 2010) Showdown in Moscow: The Olympic Quests of Coe and Ovett by Hugh Shields Hardcover: 132 pages Publisher: Upfront Publishing (July 10, 2012) The Sarajevo Olympics: A History of the 1984 Winter Games+ by Jason Vuic Hardcover: 232 pages Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press (April 24, 2015) Made in America: His Own Story+ by Peter Ueberroth Edition: First Edition Binding: Hard Cover Publisher: Morrow, NY Date Published: 1985 Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0-688-05882-5 Photos. 401 p. The story of the self-made successful business man who began by building his own travel company and wound up running the 23rd Olympic games in Los Angeles. The Games of the Twenty-Third Olympiad : Los Angeles 1984 Commemorative Book [CLV]+ by Harvery Frommer (Editor), Myrna Frommer (Editor), Mary Gaddie (Editor) Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: International Sport Publications, Incorporated; (November 1, 1984) ISBN: 0913927031 Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, The (Images of Sports) by Barry A. Sanders Series: Images of Sports Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (October 14, 2013) The Official Commemorative Book: XV Olympic Winter Games by Lloyd Robertson, Brian D. Johnston, and Brian Johnson. Hardcover: 213 pages Publisher: Firefly Books; (June 1988) ASIN: 1550130595 It's How You Play the Game: The Inside Story of the Calgary Olympics by Frank W. King (Author) Hardcover: 339 pages Publisher: Script the Writers Group (December 1991) The Seoul Olympics: The Inside Story by Park Seh-Jik (Author), Juan Antonio Samaranch (Foreword) Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Bellew Publishing (October 1991) Seoul '88 : The Official Commemorative Record of XXIVth Olympiad Harmony and Progress (Hardcover, 1989) ISBN: 0-82530-4628 January 1989 Publisher: Natl Book Network Albertville 92: Back to Nature: The Official Book of the International Olympic Committee and the Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympic Winter Games by International Olympic Committee. Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Professional Team Pubns; (September 1992) ASIN: 1564860159 The Official Book of the XVII Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer 1994 Hardcover Publisher: Oslo: J.M. Stenersens Forlag A.S. (1994) Atlanta 1996: Official Commemorative Book of the Centennial Olympic Games by David Miller, Allsport (Photographer). Woodford Publishing Hardcover: 208 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 11.50 x 8.75 Publisher: Woodford Publishing; (September 1996) ISBN: 0942627296 Official Book of the Centennial Olympic Games: Atlanta, 1996 (Hardcover, 1996) Author: International Olympic Committee Staff ISBN: 1-88482-2495 January 1996 80 pages One Glorious Summer: A Photographic History of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics by Glenn Hannigan (Author), Robert Mashburn (Author), Atlanta journal-constitution (Photographer) Hardcover: 184 pages Publisher: Longstreet Pr; First Edition edition (December 1996) The Fire Within : The Official Commemorative Book of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games (Hardcover, 2002) ISBN: 0-97179-6106 Publisher: Salt Lake Organizing Committee 436 pages Illustrated Salt Lake 2002: An Official Book of the Olympic Winter Games by Lee Benson, Susan Eston Black, and John Telford (Photographer) Hardcover: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.70 x 8.85 x 11.24 Publisher: Shadow Mountain; (November 1, 2000) ASIN: 1573457957 Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games by Mitt Romney (Author), Timothy Robinson (Author) Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (June 15, 2004) Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal (Sports and Entertainment) by Stephen Wenn (Author) Series: Sports and Entertainment Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Syracuse University Press (December 29, 2011) With Glowing Hearts / Des plus brillants exploits: The Official Commemorative Book of the XXI Olympic Winter Games and the X Paralympic Winter Games / ... d'hiver et des Xes Jeux paralympiques d'hiver by VANOC (Author) Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 28, 2010) Patriot Hearts: Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country by John Furlong (Author), Gary Mason (Contributor) Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre; First Edition edition (April 1, 2011) London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: The Official Commemorative Book by Tom Knight (Author), Sybil Ruscoe (Author), Sebastian Coe Kbe (Foreword) Hardcover: 312 pages Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 5, 2012) London 2012 The Greatest Show on Earth: A Day-by-Day Photographic Celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games by Press Association Sport (Author) Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Carlton Books (2013) AND THREE NICE BOOKS ON THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES: V Pan-American Games Winnipeg Canada+ 30 x 22 cms, hardback, 220 pages. 1967 The well-illustrated and very detailed official report of the 5th Pan-American Games. The games of August: Official commemorative book, the tenth Pan American Games, Indianapolis, 7-23 August 1987+ by Bruce Dworshak (Author) Hardcover Publisher: Showmasters, Inc; 1st edition (1987) Language: English ASIN: B000718LLC [211] pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm Pan Am Proud: A Tribute to Champions - The Official Commemorative Book of the 1999 Pan American Games+ by Jeffrey A. Tiessen (Author) Hardcover 221 pages Publisher: DT Publishing Group, Inc. (1999) Language: English ASIN: 0968601308 AND FINALLY - A BOOK ABOUT THE 1986 GOODWILL GAMES: Moscow '86 Goodwill Games+ Author: Ken Bastian 192 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm Publisher: [Atlanta, Ga. : Pub. Group : Turner Broadcasting System] ; [Gretna, La.] : [Distributed in the USA by Pelican Pub. Co.], [©1986]

CBC Television has posted several clips of its live coverage of the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg on the CBC Archives portion of its website, all in color! First is a nice 10 minute look at highlights of the opening ceremony - the parade of nations and the official speeches by the head of the Pan American Games Society (organizing committee), PASO President Jose Clark Flores, and HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1967-pan-am-games-open-in-winnipeg http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/harry-jerome-wins-gold-at-the-1967-pan-am-games http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/elaine-tanner-wins-gold-and-a-world-record-at-the-1967-pan-am-games http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/swimmer-elaine-mighty-mouse-tanner-at-the-1967-pan-am-games

I think I just died and went to heaven! Ladies and Gentlemen, WestNackTwins has just posted on youtube two of the holy grails of Olympic style ceremonies: TBS complete coverage of the 1986 Goodwill Games Opening Ceremony live from Lenin Central Stadium in Moscow! (BTW he? has posted TBS entire coverage of the games on youtube! And I've waited forty years for this moment: The complete CBS coverage of the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis - all 6 broadcasts including the COMPLETE OPENING CEREMONY AT THE INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY!!!!!!!!! I knew someone had to have tapes of these somewhere! HOORAYYYYYYYYY! And as a bonus someone else posted a new clip of CBS coverage of the 1979 Pan American Games featuring coverage of the boxing competition:

Here are two new finds - the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies as broadcast by TVE 2. Enjoy!

Berlin 1936 Closing Ceremony - the real footage - not the fake stuff from Riefenstahl's film:

Uh Oh! The ceremonies page on The Olympic Channel website has disappeared! Hope it's just temporary. I knew it was too good to be true, though.

Here is NBC's coverage of Sapporo 1972: XIth OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES Sapporo 1972 NBC Rights Fee: $6,400,000 37 Hours Executive Producer: Dick Auerbach Director: Ted Nathanson Host: Curt Gowdy Alternate Host: Jim Simpson Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Curt Gowdy ? Reporters: Jim Simpson (Figure Skating and Alpine Skiing) Jay Randolph (Ski Jumping and Speed Skating) Al Michaels (Ice Hockey) Jack Perkins Analysts: Peggy Fleming (Figure Skating) Billy Kidd (Alpine Skiing) Art Devlin (Ski Jumping and Nordic Skiing) Terry McDermott (Speed Skating) Tuesday, February 1 -- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM (All Time ET) Olympic Special; Former Olympians Peggy Fleming, Billy Kidd, Art Devlin and Terry McDermott offer a varied look at Olympic sports and present filmed highlights of past Olympic contests. Wednesday, February 2 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Highlights of day’s outstanding events via satellite, from Japan. (Opening Ceremony - live) Thursday, February 3 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey - elimination round - Czechoslovakia vs. Japan and Sweden vs. Yugoslavia) -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Highlights of the day’s outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s and Women’s Luge Singles, Two-Man Bobsled, Men’s 30km Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 5000m Speed Skating, and Nordic Combined - Ski Jumping) Friday, February 4 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. Ice Hockey - elimination round - United States vs. Switzerland and Germany vs. Poland) -- 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM Highlights of outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Two-man Bobsled - third and fourth runs, Nordic Combined - 15km Cross-Country, Men’s 500m Speed Skating (live), Figure Skating - Women’s Compulsories (live), Ice Hockey (live)) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights of outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Women’s Downhill (live), Ice Hockey (live)) Saturday, February 5 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Highlights of outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey, Men’s and Women’s singles luge - third run) -- 9:55 PM - 11:00 PM Highlights of outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Women’s 10km Cross-County Skiing, 70m Ski Jump, Men’s 1500m Speed Skating, Ice Hockey (live) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights of outstanding events, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey (live)) Sunday, February 6 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Figure Skating - Pairs’ Compulsories, Ice Hockey) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s 15km Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s 10,000m Speed Skating, Ice Hockey (live), Men‘s Downhill Skiing (live)) Monday, February 7 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey, Men’s and Women’s Luge Singles, third round - postponed from Saturday) -- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s Figure Skating - Compulsories (live), Biathlon - Individual) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Women’s Giant Slalom (live), Ice Hockey - Czechoslovakia vs. Finland (live) Tuesday, February 8 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Figure Skating - Pairs’ Free Skating Finals) -- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Women’s 5km Cross-Country Skiing, Men’s Figure Skating - Compulsories (live), Ice Hockey - Yugoslavia vs. Japan (live), Women’s 1500m Speed Skating (live)) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s Giant Slalom (live), Ice Hockey - Sweden vs. Poland and Germany vs. Norway (live)) Wednesday, February 9 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey - United States vs. Soviet Union) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s 50km Cross-Country Skiing, Women’s 500m Speed Skating, Ice Hockey - Norway vs. Japan, Men’s Giant Slalom - second run (live), Ice Hockey - Soviet Union vs. Poland and Switzerland vs. Yugoslavia (live)) Thursday, February 10 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey - United States vs. Finland and Czechoslovakia vs. Sweden, Men’s Luge Doubles - first and second runs) -- 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Four-Man Bobsled - first and second runs, Biathlon Relay, Women’s 1000m Speed Skating, 90m Ski Jump) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Four-Man Bobsled - first and second runs, Biathlon Relay, Women’s 1000m Speed Skating, 90m Ski Jump) Friday, February 11 -- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s Figure Skating - Free Skating) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Four-Man Bobsled - third and fourth runs, Women’s 15km Cross-Country Relay, Women’s 3000m Speed Skating (live), Men’s Slalom Skiing - first run, Ice Hockey - Switzerland vs. Norway (live)) Saturday, February 12 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey - Germany vs. Japan and Poland vs. United States) -- 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Men’s Cross-Country Relay, Ice Hockey - Sweden vs. Finland, Men’s Special Slalom Skiing (live), Ice Hockey - Soviet Union vs. Czechoslovakia (live)) -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM Highlights, via satellite, from Japan. (Ice Hockey - Soviet Union vs. Czechoslovakia (live)) Sunday, February 13 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Highlights from Japan, via satellite. (Closing Ceremony and Review of Winter Olympics) The Thrill of Victory: The Inside Story of ABC Sports by Bert Randolph Sugar. "NBC which had last telecast the 1964 Summer Games from Tokyo, won the rights to the 1972 Winter Games from Sapporo, purchasing them from the worldwide owner, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), the government-owned Japanese broadcasting system. Failing to negotiate unilateral coverage in 1964, leaving that entirely in the hands of the Japanese, NBC compounded their felony in 1972. This time they also neglected to obtain the rights to cover the events themselves with their own cameras and interviewers. Jim Simpson, Curt Gowdy, and several expert analysts were back in a studio, but interviews with the winners would have to wait until they came to the studio. It was treated as a news event of what had happened, not what was happening. Those in the studio might just as well have been back in New York sitting in front of a chroma-key of Sapporo in the background. And even what was shown needed subtitles, with the American audience treated to performer after performer, including the last sixty skiers in the downhill -- all of them downhill kamikaze pilots -- from every country in the world, with virtually no chances of winning. In the words of one benumbed NBC executive, "They showed every goddamned one of them on American television." With thirty-six hours scheduled, including the last half hour of the "Today Show" for a week and nine "Johnny Carson Shows," it was an artistic disaster and a commercial debacle. No wonder NBC was wary about putting any future Olympics on prime time television." The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV internet article by Joseph Gallant (notquite@hotmail.com) "NBC broke ABC's stranglehold on the Games in 1972, winning the rights to broadcast that year's Winter Games at Sapporo, Japan. Despite a record 37 hours of coverage, much of it live (again, Winter Olympic events are often traditionally held in the morning hours, which meant live prime-time TV for the United States East Coast), critics panned the coverage. Many wondered why Curt Gowdy - perhaps the best play-by-play sportscaster who ever lived - was NBC's studio host and not doing play-by-play of one sport or another." Tune in next time for ABC coverage of Munich 1972!

Here is ABC's coverage of the Mexico City 1968 Games: GAMES OF THE XIXth OLYMPIAD Mexico City 1968 ABC Rights Fee: $4,500,000 Hours: 43 3/4 Cameras: 50 Production Crew: 450 Executive Producer: Roone Arledge Host: Chris Schenkel Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Jim McKay and Peter Jennings Reporters: Jim McKay (Athletics and Gymnastics) Howard Cosell (Boxing) Bill Flemming (Basketball? and Swimming) Bud Palmer (Rowing) Keith Jackson (?) Analysts: Jim Beatty (Track) Hayes Jones (Track) Parry O’Brien (Field) Tom Maloney (Gymnastics) Murray Rose (Men’s Swimming) Donna de Varona (Women’s Swimming) Ken Sitzberger (Diving) Bill Stowe (Rowing) Jack Twyman (Basketball) Monday, October 7 -- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (All Times ET) Olympic Preview Saturday, October 12 -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Opening ceremonies, from Mexico City. Chris Schenkel, host, with Jim McKay, Bill Flemming, others. (live) Sunday, October 13 -- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM From Mexico City. Subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s 100m heats, men’s shot-put qualifying, men’s 400m hurdles heats, men’s 800m heats, men’s 100m second round, men’s 10,000m final, live); Weight Lifting, bantamweight final, live and tape; Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live and tape; Rowing, eliminations; Volleyball, women, U.S. vs. Japan, live and tape; Boxing, Howard Cosell reporting. Monday, October 14 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (women’s 100m heats, men’s pole vault qualifying, men’s discus qualifying, women’s 400m heats, live); basketball, possible coverage, first round, live; weight lifting, featherweight, live. -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s shot-put final, women’s javelin final, men’s 100m semi-finals, women’s long jump final, live, 800 meters seni-finals, start men’s 20km walk, live, possible coverage, men’s steeplechase heats, live). -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change events are: Track and Field (men’s 100m final, and men’s 20km walk final); Boxing, possible coverage, trials, live; Basketball, possible coverage, first round, first round, live; Volleyball, possible coverage, woman, Poland vs. U.S.S.R. Tuesday, October 15 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change events are: Rowing, possible coverage, live and tape; Volleyball, possible coverage, live; Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live; Track and Field (men’s 200m heats); Weight Lifting, lightweight, final, live. -- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM From Mexico City. Track and Field (men’s discus final, men’s 5000m heats, live and tape, men’s 400m hurdles final, live, women’s 100m final, live, men’s 800m final, live, women’s 400m semi- finals, men’s 200m second round); Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live; Boxing, possible coverage, trials, live. Wednesday, October 16 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live; Volleyball, possible coverage, men, Poland vs. U.S.; Track and Field (men’s 100m hurdles heats, men’s Triple Jump qualifying, men’s Hammer Throw qualifying); Water Polo, possible coverage; Modern Pentathlon, possible coverage, swimming, live. -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s pole vault final, live and tape, men’s javelin final, live and tape, women’s 400m final, live, men’s 3000m steeplechase, final, live); Weight Lifting, middleweight, final, live. -- 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change events are: Track and Field (men’s pole vault final, live and tape, men’s javelin final, live and tape, men’s 200m final); Basketball, first round, live. Thursday, October 17 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Rowing, semi-finals, live; Swimming and Diving (women’s springboard elimination, live, women’s 4x100m medley relay, eliminations, live, men’s 4x100m freestyle, eliminations, live); Yachting, from Acapulco. -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s 110m hurdles final, live, men’s 5000m final, live); Wrestling, freestyle, eliminations, live and tape. -- 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (start of men’s 50,000m walk, men’s triple jump final, women’s high jump final, men’s hammer throw final); Swimming and diving (women’s 4x100m medley relay, final, and men’s 4x100m freestyle relay, final); Cycling, 1000m individual time-trial, final; Weight Lifting, possible coverage, light-heavyweight, final. Friday, October 18 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s 1500m heats, live); Swimming and Diving (women’s 100m freestyle eliminations, live, men’s 100m freestyle, eliminations, live, women’s 100m breaststroke eliminations, possible coverage, live, men’s 100m breaststroke eliminations, possible coverage, live); Basketball, possible coverage, first round. live; Boxing, possible coverage, trials, live and tape; Wrestling, possible coverage, freestyle eliminations, live; Equestrian, possible coverage, three-day event, dressage. -- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (women’s 200m final, men’s long jump final, live and tape, women’s discus final, live and tape, men’s 400m final, women’s 80m hurdles final, decathlon, possible coverage, 400m, live); Swimming and Diving (women’s springboard, final, live); Weight Lifting, middle-heavyweight, final, live and tape. -- 11:30 PM - 12:00 AM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Weight Lifting, possible coverage, middle- heavyweight, final, live and tape; Boxing, possible coverage, trials, live and tape; Cycling 4000m individual pursuit, final; Basketball, first round, live. Saturday, October 19 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s 4x100m relay heats, live, men’s high jump qualifying, live); Swimming (women’s 400m freestyle heats, live); Rowing, coxless fours, final, live, and coxless pairs, final, live. -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s 1500m run, semi-final, live); Rowing, single sculls, final, double sculls, final, and eights, final, tape; Weight Lifting, heavyweight, final, live; Yachting, from Acapulco. -- 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (women’s 800m final); Swimming and Diving (women’s 100m breaststroke final, men’s 100m breaststroke final, women’s 100m freestyle final, men’s 100m freestyle final). Sunday, October 20 -- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s marathon, start, live, men’s high jump, final, live, women’s shot-put, final, live, men’s 1500m final, live, men’s 4x100m relay, final, live, women’s 4x100m relay, final, live); Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live and tape; Boxing, possible coverage, trials, live and tape. -- 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Track and Field (men’s marathon, final); Swimming and Diving (men’s springboard final, women’s 200m individual medley, men’s 200m individual medley, women’s 400m freestyle); Wrestling, freestyle, final; Basketball, possible coverage, first round, live and tape; Boxing, possible coverage, live and tape; Fencing, women’s individual foil, final. Monday, October 21 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (men’s 4x200m freestyle relay eliminations, live, women’s 200m freestyle, live, men’s 200m breaststroke eliminations, live, men’s 100m backstroke eliminations, live); Gymnastics, women’s individual and team compulsory exercises, live; Volleyball, women, U.S.S.R. vs. U.S., live, Water Polo; possible coverage, live. -- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM From Mexico City, subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (men’s 100m butterfly final, live, women’s 100m butterfly, final, live, men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, final, live); Boxing, trials, live; Cycling, tandem, final, and 4000m team pursuit, final; Water Polo, possible coverage; Gymnastics, individual exercises, live. Tuesday, October 22 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Equestrian, possible coverage, three-day event, jumping, live; Basketball, possible coverage, semi-finals, live and tape; Swimming (men’s 400m freestyle, live, women’s 800 freestyle, live). -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Gymnastics, men’s individual and team compulsory exercises, live; Basketball, possible coverage, semi-finals, live and tape; Boxing, quarterfinals; Soccer, possible coverage, semi-finals. -- 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (women’s 100m backstroke, final, live, men’s 100 meter backstroke, final, live, women’s 200m freestyle, final, live); Gymnastics, men’s individual and team compulsory exercises, live; Boxing, possible coverage, quarterfinals, live and tape; Basketball, semi-finals, live and tape. -- 11:30 PM - 12:00 AM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: (Swimming and Diving, men’s 200m breaststroke, final); Gymnastics, men’s individual and team compulsory exercises, live; Boxing, possible coverage, quarter finals, live and tape; Fencing, possible coverage, men’s individual epee, final, live. Wednesday, October 23 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Yachting, possible coverage, from Acapulco; Gymnastics, possible coverage, women’s individual and team exercises, live and tape; Volleyball, men, Mexico vs. Russia. -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (women’s tower, final, live); Gymnastics, possible coverage, women’s individual and team free exercises, live and tape; Boxing, quarter-finals, live and tape. -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (women’s tower, final, men’s 200m breaststroke, final, men’s 400m individual medley, final, women’s 100m backstroke, final); Gymnastics, possible coverage, women’s individual and team free exercises, live and tape; Boxing, possible coverage, quarter finals, live and tape; Volleyball, men, U.S. vs. Japan; Cycling, Individual road race. Thursday, October 24 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Gymnastics, men’s individual and team free exercises, live; Swimming and Diving (men’s 200m butterfly eliminations, live; women’s 200m butterfly eliminations, live, men’s 200m freestyle eliminations, live). -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Gymnastics, men’s individual and team free exercises, live and tape; Boxing, semi-finals, live and tape; Soccer, semi-finals. -- 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (women’s 800m freestyle, final, men’s 200m butterfly, final, women’s 200m butterfly, final, men’s 200m freestyle, final); Gymnastics, men’s individual and team free exercises, live and tape; Boxing, semi-finals, live and tape. Friday, October 25 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (men’s 200m backstroke eliminations, live, women’s 200m backstroke eliminations, live); Wrestling, Greco-Roman, live; Canoeing, possible coverage, women’s kayak singles, final, possible coverage, men’s kayak pairs, final, live. -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Diving, men’s platform diving eliminations, live; Volleyball, possible coverage. -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (women’s 200m backstroke, final, men’s 200m backstroke, final, women’s 400m individual medley, final); Gymnastics, women’s individual combined, final, live; Canoeing, possible coverage, men’s Canadian pairs, final, possible coverage, women’s kayak pairs, final, possible coverage, men’s kayak 4x500m relay, final; Water Polo, possible coverage, semi-finals. -- 11:00 PM - 1:00 AM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Basketball, final, live; Gymnastics, women’s individual combined, final, live. Saturday, October 26 -- 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Water Polo, possible coverage, live; Volleyball, possible coverage, live; Swimming, women’s 400m freestyle relay heats, live. -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming, men’s tower, final, live; Soccer, final, live. -- 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Swimming and Diving (men’s 1500m freestyle, final, women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, men’s 4x100m medley relay); Gymnastics, men’s individual combined final, final, live and tape; Boxing, final, live and tape; Volleyball, women, U.S.S.R. vs. Japan. -- 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Gymnastics, men’s individual combined, final, live and tape; Boxing, final, live and tape; Volleyball, possible coverage, women, U.S.S.R. vs. Japan; Water Polo, possible coverage, final; Field Hockey, possible coverage, final, live and tape. Sunday, October 27 -- 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM From Mexico City. subject to change, events are: Equestrian, Grand Prix jumping, Grand Prix dressage; Closing Ceremonies (live and tape). The Thrill of Victory: The Inside Story of ABC Sports by Bert Randolph Sugar. "The acquisition of the rights to the 1968 Summer Games depended not so much on a misunderstanding as on what many suggested was instead an "understanding." Mexico City was selected as the site of the XIX Summer Games by the IOC long before the Tokyo Olympics. But even with an Organizing Committee duly constituted to administer to such things as the awarding of television rights, the entire situation was a rife with intrigue as Rick’s Café Americaine in Casablanca. "ABC let it be known that they were in the bidding for the 1968 Mexico City games. Anxious to add their very first Summer Games to their ever-growing charm bracelet of Olympics, they were prepared to investigate every opportunity, but even they weren’t prepared for this. They soon began to receive phone calls--over a hundred a week. The message was always the same, delivered by an unctuous Latin, who could be pictured in another pose somewhere on the streets of Tijuana, leering at his prey and whispering, "Psst. "Hey Buddee. You like my seester?" The message he imparted to Arledge or anyone he could reach on the twenty-eighth floor of the ABC Building was "the televeesion rights for the Olympeecs are available...and I can deeleever them for you, Senor." "NBC was receiving its share of calls as well. William Johnson, senior editor at Sports Illustrated, suggested, "Many of these calls, it was assumed, came from a phone booth in Grand Central Terminal and lacked any mark of officialdom." Still, Johnson wrote, "No one knew for sure who would be the real influential force on the Mexican committee, so nearly every contact had to be taken seriously." In a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere, NBC set up its own secret operative to follow up the furtive callers and ferret out the right pressure point. But the right pressure point was one that ABC had found months before. "In 1960, James Hagerty, press secretary for President Eisenhower, had been hired as vice-president in charge of news, replacing John Daly. One of his unannounced jobs was the maintenance of goodwill, and no goodwill meant more than that of the Mexican government as the Mexico City games approached. In 1962, he had made a trip to Mexico, ostensibly on a fact-finding tour, but in large part to rekindle the friendship of Eisenhower’s close Mexico friends, including the former President of Mexico. Arledge himself was to take several trips South of the Border this time not to bring Acapulco cliff divers down from $100,000 to $10 a dive, but to bring the Olympics back to ABC. "Each network was finally called to Mexico City to make their presentations to the Olympic Organizing Committee. NBC opened the bidding with $2.2 million. Then, after ABC had made its presentation, along with a bid of $4.5 million, NBC sent a telegram to the International Olympics Committee that they "would top any figure submitted by ABC," regardless of how outrageous ABC’s bid was. What price tag glory when you’re going for an Olympics? But the local Organizing Committee awarded the 1968 Summer Games to ABC, never getting back to NBC for their counter offer. "The winner of the TV rights to the Mexico City games, Roone Arledge, indicated he thought the reason he won the gold ring was because "after watching us covering past Olympics, they just assumed we could do it best." But the loser, Carl Lindemann of NBC, thought other reasons concerning gold had something to do with it. He told Johnson that "maybe ABC had given Colonel What’s-his-name, the Mexican chairman of the Olympic committee, a $15,000 Maserati." "And although the sour grapes quote gained wide circulation--and some mild accceptance--it was something Arledge neither had to do nor was reduced to doing. For ABC had won the Mexico City games on their past merit; nothing as meretricious as the bribe laid at their doostep by Lindemann." "But [Grenoble] also was a dry run for the Summer Olympics, to be telecast that very October from Mexico City. There the 250 men mushroomed to 450 and the forty cameras to fifty. The coverage also increased from twenty-seven to fourty-four hours, most of it in prime time. ABC’s first Summer Olympics would be the standard by which all future ones would be judged. "And it was here that the hand of Roone Arledge was most evident. The generallissimo of all that surrounded him, he grafted his technical skills onto the spectacle and made it as much a part of the Olympics as the athletic competition itself. Arledge became the A to de Coubertin’s D; by their own individual efforts these two men brought the Olympic age from B.C. to A.D. ""To me, Roone’s talent is being the producer in the control room," says Jim McKay... But to say Roone Arledge is only a producer is to say that Cellini was only a sculptor. For sitting in that middle chair in the main control room--known throughout the industry as The Chair--facing a board containing thirty-two monitors with an equal number of images, assaulting him, Arledge is at his best. "It’s in the Olympic Games that Roone Arledge shows what a brilliant mind he is because he becomes a line producer," says another of his famous disciples, Howard Cosell. "He’s looking at a bank of thirty-two monitors, evaluating each one contemporaneously and making a judgement: ‘OK, go to Howard with the boxing...’ ‘Howard throw it to Beattie, there’s a record coming up in weight lifting....’ Whatever. And it all meshes!" he adds incredulously. But perhaps the man who best understands the technical wizardry that allows Arledge to orchestrate men. machines, and monitors into one total show is Julie Barnathan, the vice-president in charge of broadcast operations and of engineering for ABC and the true unsung hero of the Olympics. "He is great under fire--in The Chair. And I have seen more events than anybody I can imagine. I have never seen a man operate under conditions in such a cool way. Cool, clear, explicit, incredible under fire. There’s no one like that." Barnathan recalls one incident where, in the middle of a station break, they turned to Arledge and said, "Alright, Roone, where are we going?" And Barnathan remembers Arledge answering, "I don’t know yet." "Somehow, unlike Humpty Dumpty, he always manages to put the pieces together again, cutting from live coverage of one event to tape of another and then back again for another live shot. And so it was in Mexico City, as Arledge choreographed a shot from a cameraman hanging 225 feet above the stadium to a tight shot of the Olympic torch accompanied by a "whoosh" of the flame at the moment of ignition, which was picked up by a tiny microphone. He caught it all, the results of hundreds of human competitions to incisive moments that only TV could bring us. Everything from Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their black-gloved fists and lowering their heads during the playing of the "American National Anthem" to a Czech gymnast turning away her head during the playing of the "Soviet Anthem." And when he didn’t quite catch it, he would send his reporters after it, directing Cosell to get Smith for an interview or even sending him onto the track to get an interview with Jimmie Hines who had just broken the Olympic record in winning the 100-meter championship. As we all watched the incongrous sight of an athlete in a tight-fitting track suit being chased by an athlete-that-never-was seeking an interview, in spite of the Mexican's ban on interviews, we knew what we were watching was the best in sports journalism. "Nothing seemed to stand in Arledge’s way: not the construction of a twenty-foot-tall camera tower, built by the Mexicans, that obstructed ABC’s view of some of the track and field events, which he got removed by his persuasiveness; nor the failure of power in a stadium control room, which went dead after one live show and which, upon investigation, was found by technicians to have been caused by tiny particles of dirt in the Mexico diesel oil clogging the generator, a recurrency of which he averted by having the generator cleaned before the countdown for every show. "Roone Arledge had seemed to reduce all the chaos to order, all problems to solutions, all competitions to something deeper, and the Olympics to a permanent place on ABC’s quadrennial schedule." Here are three rare clips from ABC's Mexico City 1968 coverage: Tune in next time for NBC coverage of Sapporo 1972!

Here is ABC's coverage of the Grenoble 1968 Games: Xth OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES Grenoble 1968 ABC Rights Fee: $2,500,000 27 Hours Cameras: 40 Production Crew: 250 Executive Producer: Roone Arledge Host: Chris Schenkel Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Jim McKay Reporters: Jim McKay (Alpine Skiing) Chris Schenkel (Figure Skating) Curt Gowdy (Ice Hockey) Bill Flemming Analysts: Dick Button (Figure Skating) Art Devlin (Ski Jumping) Sunday, February 4 -- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Preview of the 1968 Winter Olympics (live). Tuesday, February 6 -- 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM Opening ceremonies from Grenoble, France. President de Gaulle, others. (live via satellite). -- 7:30 PM- 8:30 PM Review of opening ceremonies; Ice Hockey (live). Wednesday, February 7 -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Scheduled events include two-man bobsled - 1st and 2nd runs; women’s compulsory figures; men’s downhill - 1st run. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s highlights. Thursday, February 8 -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Men’s downhill - final run; two-man bobsled - 3rd and 4th runs; women’s compulsory figures, ice hockey. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s highlights. Friday, February 9 -- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Speedskating - Women’s 500m; women’s downhill - 1st run; ice hockey. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s highlights. Saturday, February 10 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Women’s free skating (live); ice hockey (live); speedskating - women’s 1500m -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Men’s and women’s luge singles - 3rd run; women’s downhill - final run, 70m ski jumping. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s highlights. Sunday, February 11 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM One hour special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Men’s Giant Slalom; Women’s 1000m Speed Skating. -- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Two hour special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: 70 meter Ski Jump; Luge; Hockey, U.S. vs. Canada, U.S.S.R. vs. West Germany. -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Recap of the day’s highlights, at Grenoble, France. Monday, February 12 -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM One hour special, from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Men’s Giant Slalom; Women’s 3000m Speed Skating; Men’s 15 KM Cross-Country Skiing; Hockey, United States vs. West Germany, Czechoslovakia vs. East Germany, Sweden vs. Finland. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of day’s highlight, at Grenoble, France. Tuesday, February 13 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM One hour special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Women’s Special Slalom Skiing; Luge; Women’s 5 KM Cross-Country Skiing; Hockey, U.S.S.R. vs. Sweden, Czechoslovakia vs. Canada. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of today’s highlights, at Grenoble, France. Wednesday, February 14 -- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Ninety-minute special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Pairs Figure Skating; 4-man Bobsleds; Men’s Special Slalom Skiing; Men’s 500m Speed Skating; Hockey, East Germany vs. Finland. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of day’s highlights, at Grenoble, France. Thursday, February 15 -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM One hour special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Women’s Giant Slalom; 4-Man Bobsled; Hockey, United States vs. East Germany, Sweden vs. Canada, U.S.S.R. vs. Czechoslovakia. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s events at Grenoble, France. Friday, February 16 -- 9:30 PM - 11:00 PM Ninety-minute special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events are: Men’s Figure Skating; Men’s Special Slalom; Men’s 1500m Speed Skating; Hockey, Finland vs. West Germany. -- 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM Recap of the day’s highlights, at Grenoble, France. Saturday, February 17 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Two hour special from Grenoble, France. Scheduled events: Hockey, United States vs. Finland; Men’s Special Slalom; Biathlon; Men’s 10,000m Speed Skating. (live) -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM One hour special from Grenoble, France. Events scheduled are: Hockey, Canada vs. U.S.S.R., East Germany vs. West Germany, Sweden vs. Czechoslovakia. Sunday, February 18 -- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Two hour special from Grenoble, France. Closing ceremonies (live); 90m Ski Jump; highlights of the Olympics. The Thrill of Victory: The Inside Story of ABC Sports by Bert Randolph Sugar. "In 1968 ABC hit the giant quinella, winning the rights to both the Grenoble, France, Winter Games and the Mexico City Summer Games, but not without some spirited bidding against NBC. NBC has always been proud of its escutcheon, "The leader in live sports TV." The self-serving motto was one that they appropriated partly because of their historical presentation of several sports exclusives, including the World Series every year since 1947, the Super Bowl on an alternate basis with CBS, and the Rose and Orange Bowls since 1948. And, in part, from the fact that they had carried these events live as opposed to the tape-delayed telecasts of the majority of events on ABC’s "Wide World." At the final presentations to the Grenoble Olympic Organizing Committee in 1965, the NBC team, in the Peacock multicolored trucks headed by their Vice-President of Sports Carl Lindemann, put on an extravagant "new business" presentation in the best tradition of Busby Berkeley. With slides, film, flip charts, and narration, they recounted their numerous accomplishments in chapter and verse. "ABC followed with their own pitch, concentrating on their critically acclaimed coverage of the 1964 Winter Games and their globe-trotting experience with "Wide World," particularly their telecast of four events from France, including the World Skiing Championships from Chamonix, the site of the very first Winter Games in 1924. "Their presentation, plus a bid of $2 million, won the day and the television rights to the 1968 Winter Games. After accepting the Organizing Committee’s decision to award the upcoming games to ABC, Arledge felt a tug at his sleeve. It was the chairman of the Grenoble Organizing Committee. "I want to offer my congratulations and please could you also help me? I want to know why NBC kept talking of their ‘Bowel Games.’ It was in very questionable taste." "To the six sports and thirty-five events at Grenoble, a small city in southeast France was added yet another--television. And the biggest team at the X Winter Games was ABC’s, with over 250 engineering and production personnel on hand to telecast the games. Theirs was an Olympian effort, worthy of the games themselves. In order to lay a forty-mile web of cables throughout the mountains and slopes that surrounded Grenoble, they moved their fifty tons of equipment by hand, helicopter, and heavy snowmobiles with the help of a detachment from the French Army to postions along the treacherous terrain and precipices, "The cameramen, technicians, and engineers--as opposed to the "production" people--are by and large as fearless as any group of counterespionage agents in the world. They hang from scaffolding and cranes high above the earth, position themselves in front of action that no sane man would, and generally rank as second only to stuntmen in assumption of risks. But the inevitable happened at Grenoble. As the crew was setting up its web of cables, skittering around the mountains like snowy spiders, one of the engineers, who was up on the mountainside connecting the points on the cables to see if the cameras "fired," literally froze in his tracks. The crew at a particular cross connect point up on the downhill slope hadn’t finished until late in the day. By that time the ski lift had ceased operating, so the rest of the crew took off their heavy, weatherproofed, blue ABC jackets, made them into sleds, and came down the icy "Piste" on their rumps. The hill was no longer just snow covered, but a sheet of ice, watered down by the soldiers. But no amount of talking could get this one engineer to take off his jacket and slide down the hill. He was petrified. And no amount of persuasion on the walkie-talkies could budge him either. Finally, two French troopers on skis walked up the hill and walked him down, step by step. One more of the hazards of being an engineer at the Olympics. "The twenty-seven hour television feast served up by Arledge’s army included course after course: beauty shots of gold medalist Peggy Fleming, dramatic shots of three-time gold medal winner Jean-Claude Killy, slo-mo shots of American skiing hope Billy Kidd falling skis-over-teakettle down the 2-mile Casserousse run, breathtaking shots of skiers coming down the 1 1/2 mile downhill course at 70 miles-per-hour, and the fearsome shots of a Canadian bobsledder being dragged along the bobsled course after a spill on one of the turns. The old Arledge touch of placing the microphones in the place best calculated to bring the event into the living room had miles imbedded everywhere. They were very near the edge of the 90-meter ski jump so that each airborne skiier’s frightening "huuuh" could be heard at the precise second of takeoff. A second microphone, near the landing spot, caught their deep inhalation, "ooomph," as they landed. And a third, at the bottom of the run, the "sssssss-s" of their skis as they skidded to a final stop. It was all great theater, great entertainment." Tune in next time for ABC coverage of Mexico City 1968!

Here is NBC's coverage of the Tokyo 1964 Games. GAMES OF THE XVIIIth OLYMPIAD Tokyo 1964 NBC Rights Fee: $1,500,000 Hours: 15 1/2 Producer: Dick Auerbach Host: Bill Henry Opening Ceremonies: Tom Harmon Reporters: Bill Henry Bud Palmer (Athletics) Jim Simpson Tom Harmon Curt Gowdy Analysts: Dick Bank (Athletics) Bob Richards (Athletics) Murray Rose Rafer Johnson Saturday, October 10 -- 1:00 AM - 3:00 AM (Telecast in color) (All times ET) Opening Ceremonies via the new Syncom satellite. Sunday, October 11 -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Review of opening ceremonies; men’s 100m freestyle heats in swimming; women’s springboard diving eliminations. Monday, October 12 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Swimming and diving. Tuesday, October 13 -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Track and field preview; rowing semi-finals; featherweight finals in weightlifting; and yachting. -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Swimming. Wednesday, October 14 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Track and field; swimming Thursday, October 15 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Track and field: finals of women‘s long jump and men‘s 100m dash; rowing: eight-oar final and summary; swimming: final of women’s 100m backstroke; and finals of men’s springboard diving. -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Swimming; track and field. Friday, October 16 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Track and field; swimming: women‘s 100m butterfly stroke. Saturday, October 17 -- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Track and field: finals of women‘s 400m run, men‘s 200m dash, and men‘s shotput; swimming: finals of men‘s 400m medley relay; summary of week’s highlights including: women’s high diving, volleyball, shooting, rowing, wrestling, boxing, basketball, weighlifting, and track and field. Sunday, October 18 -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Track: finals of men‘s 110m hurdles and 5000m run; swimming: men’s 1500m freestyle, 200m butterfly, and women’s 400m freestyle; and men’s high diving. Monday, October 19 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Decathlon and other track events; equestrian cross-country. Tuesday, October 20 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Decathlon summary; gymnastics: women‘s compulsory and men‘s voluntary exercises; fencing; judo; greco-roman wrestling. -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Women’s track and field; basketball. Wednesday, October 21 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Men’s track. Thursday, October 22 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Boxing; equestrian grand prix dressage; cycling. Friday, October 23 -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Track and field: marathon and finals of high jump; finals of water polo, football, canoeing, and yachting. -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Gymnastics. Saturday, October 24 -- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Closing ceremonies telecast in color) Final game of basketball; boxing finals; equestrian grand prix jumping; closing ceremonies; summary of week’s highlights with emphasis on track and field, swimming, and diving. Sunday, October 25 -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Review of the outstanding individual performances over the two weeks; interviews with athletes and coaches; analysis of final team standings; preview look at Mexico City as site of 1968 Olympic Games. The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV internet article by Joseph Gallant (notquite@hotmail.com) "By the time the 1964 Summer Olympics began, there was a stationary-orbit satellite over the Pacific, allowing NBC to--between 1 and 3 A.M. Eastern Time--carry the opening ceremonies live and in color. However, very little of the remaining coverage was either live or in color, but the satellite made it possible for NBC to feed its average of 45 minutes a day to the U.S. as it was being shown in the Eastern Time Zone." San Diego Times August 10, 2012 TV COLUMN: Bank's call made Mills' upset even more memorable JOHN MAFFEI jmaffei@nctimes.com His call was one of the most memorable in Summer Olympic history. His reward was a pink slip. Dick Bank was NBC's track analyst for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and his call of Billy Mills' victory in the 10,000 meters ---- a race I deemed the best Summer Olympics moment ---- added to the drama. Working with lead announcer Bud Palmer, Bank saw Mills charging hard down the stretch on the outside, recognized the American runner and starting yelling "Look at Mills! Look at Mills!" Banks' call only added to the drama of the race. But NBC's Dick Auerbach disagreed. A day after the race, Bank was called to Auerbach's Toyko hotel and fired. "Bud Palmer was a good friend and had a lot to do with me getting the assignment in Tokyo," said Bank, now 83 years old and living in Brentwood. "I wasn't trying to upstage Bud, I was trying to call his attention to Mills. "But Auerbach said I was very unprofessional, and they were turning off my microphone." Bank was working for Adidas at the time, so he still had access to the Olympic media center. "This wasn't my first TV assignment," Bank said. "I worked Wide World of Sports for three years. Later, I covered track all over the world for CBS. "Auerbach never said why he fired me. And NBC refused to pay me for the Olympics. "I had to threaten legal action to get paid. "It's funny. I lost all my tapes, including the Mills call, in a house fire and hadn't seen it for more than 20 years. I don't have a computer or any of that business, but a friend recently called it up on YouTube for me." Bank, a record producer, doesn't hold a grudge against NBC. "I don't agree with everything they do, but I do enjoy NBC's Olympic coverage," Bank said. "Every night at 8, I have to be in front of the TV." Here are two clips from NBC's Tokyo 1964 coverage: First is the now legendary 10,000m call by Bud Palmer and Dick Bank - and the second is the 5000m. Tune in next time for ABC coverage of Grenoble 1968!

Speaking of CBS and Squaw Valley the audio portion of the entire 30 minute CBS broadcast of the opening ceremony was released on a souvenir record album. Click on the following link and you will find a Disney related page about the album. Click on the "open Mp3 player" button on the page and you can listed to the complete recording! http://mountainearsorg.ipage.com/wm2/index.php/disney-related-records/item/84-viii-olympic-winter-games Among the voices heard are Walter Cronkite (host), Art Linklater, Walt Disney, Bud Palmer, Lowell Thomas, Bill Henry, Avery Brundage, Richard Nixon, Karl Malden, and Carol Heiss. Also of note is that you will hear the first ever performance of the original Olympic Hymn first composed for the 1896 Games. Notice that the arrangement is completely different than the one we are used to. The current arrangement was first used at Rome that summer. Note, too, Karl Malden's appearance to recite an Olympic Prayer. This was a sneaky "product placement" by Walt Disney - Malden was a cast member of the soon to be released Walt Disney picture, Pollyanna, where he portrayed.......a minister! (Surprise!) This was a wonderfully produced ceremony and is well worth listening to. Enjoy!

Thanks for the kind words, and the clip of the 1960 Hockey Game, Durban Sandshark! One of my prized videos is a DVD copy of the complete US/USSR game at Squaw Valley as broadcast on CBS that I traded for with a collector several years ago. I wish I did have access to the old TV Guides. The lists of broadcast times and scheduled events above I have compiled from the daily TV listings in the New York Times as well as my hometown newspaper. I also have a copy of the CBS promotional booklet mentioned above, that I found for sale online, that contains a wealth of information on their Squaw Valley coverage - including a number of rare photographs. I have always been fascinated with how TV covers the Olympics, ever since watching Jim McKay on ABC as a young boy, and its been a sort of hobby of mine to compile this information over the years. It is amazing, especially with today's wall-to-wall coverage) how short many of the broadcasts were in 1960 and 1964 - as little as 15 minutes! Now, while I am here, Here is ABC's coverage of Innsbruck 1964: IXth Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck 1964 ABC Rights Fee: $597,000 17 1/4 Hours Executive Producer: Roone Arledge Host: Jim McKay Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Jim McKay Reporters: Jim McKay Curt Gowdy Jim Simpson Commentators: Carol Heiss (Figure Skating) Andrea Mead Lawrence (Alpine Skiing) Bob Beattie (Alpine Skiing) Wally Schaeffler (Alpine Skiing) Art Devlin (Ski Jumping) Stan Benham (Bobsledding) Robert Riger Wednesday, January 29 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM "Opening Ceremonies" with a description of the scene by Jim McKay, Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson. First of 13 consecutive programs. Thursday, January 30 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tentatively scheduled are Pairs Figure Skating and Ladies 500m Speedskating events. Friday, January 31 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tentative events are: Men’s Downhill Skiing, Men’s 30 Kilometer Cross Country Ski, and Ice Hockey. Saturday, February 1 -- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tentative events are: Special Ski Jump, 2-Man Bobsled, Ladies Figure Skating. Sunday, February 2 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Ladies Slalom, 2-man bobsled finals, ladies cross country events tentatively scheduled. Monday, February 3 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tentative events are Men’s Giant Slalom; Ladies Figure Skating. Tuesday, February 4 -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Tentative events are Ladies Giant Slalom; Combined Ski Jump, and the Toboggan Finals. Wednesday, February 5 -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Tentatively scheduled events are Ice Hockey, Biathlon, Men’s Speedskating, Men’s Figure Skating. Thursday, February 6 -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Tentatively scheduled events are 2-man Toboggan Finals, Ice Hockey, 4-man Bobsled. Friday, February 7 -- 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM Tentatively scheduled events are Ladies Downhill Skiing and 4-man Bobsled. Saturday, February 8 -- 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tentative Schedule - Men’s Figure Skating. 4-Man Bobsled Finals, Ice Hockey. -- 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM Men’s Figure Skating, tentative. Sunday, February 9 -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Men’s Slalom; Ice Hockey; Men’s Cross-Country Relay. -- 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM "Special Ski Jump". Monday, February 10 -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Closing Ceremonies described. The Thrill of Victory by Bert Randolph Sugar "...ABC [paid] $200,000 for the Winter Games in Innsbruck. Although new to the Olympics, ABC was no stranger to the coverage of sports like skiing, bobsledding, figured skating, speed skating, and ski jumping, having telecast all these events during their first three years of "Wide World." In fact, they had mastered their artistry by going to the continent no less than nineteen times: three of those times being the World Two-Man and Four-Man Bobsled Championships in Innsbruck the previous year and the International Ski Jumping Championships earlier that year. They were ready. Roone Arledge felt that "from a television standpoint the Winter Olympics from Innsbruck gave us the opportunity to utilize the techniques we have developed on ‘Wide World of Sports’ during the previous three years and put them all into effect at one time." "But there was a basic difference between the Squaw Valley games and the Innsbruck games. While the Squaw Valley games had been telecast live, the six-hour plus time difference between New York and Innsbruck plus the still-experimental state of the circling satellite necessitated ABC airing their Olympic coverage on a delayed tape basis. "There’s just no comparison in the built-in excitement and tension of an event that is live, no matter who wins, because you don’t know what’s going to happen," Arledge said. "If the results are known, as they were in most all of our telecasts from Innsbruck, then showmanship and creative ability is much more important than it is in a live show." "The logistical challenge as well as the creative challenge was very exciting." Arledge later noted. "Challenging" hell! "Ball-breaking" better lends itself to describing how ABC was able to air thirteen programs, many on the same evening they occurred in Innsbruck. With a logistical battle plan that could have gotten Phineas Fogg around the world in eighty minutes, they made the impossible possible. Figuring the time difference down to the microsecond, they could complete the editing of a day’s taping by four in the morning in Innsbruck--doing in one day what had usually taken a week for a "Wide World" show--and have it in New York in finished program form that night. Their preparations included having the edited master driven to Munich, where a dub was played back on the air to Frankfort and put on a plane from Frankfort to New York. The master was then put on Pan Am’s "Around-the-World" flight which left at 9:00 A.M. Munich time, 3:00 A.M. New York time. After stopping over in London, it arrived in New York at 1:00 P.M. EST. That gave New York six hours until the scheduled 7:00 PM air time, the first prime time telecast of an Olympics in history. Also calculating the accuracy of Murphy’s Law, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," they had set up emergency plans in case the Munich flight was delayed. In which case either the dub from Frankfort was to be used or a mobile unit standing by at Kennedy Airport would air the tape directly, rather than entrusting it to a courier to wage battle with New York City’s unforgiving rush hour traffic. "ABC also had the potential use of something that would revolutionize all of television, just as videotape had done six years earlier--the communications satellite. They made a complete schedule of its passes, usually thirty to forty a day, ranging from twelve to fifty minutes at a time. They worked out the infinite possibilities fed to them by NASA via ABC News in New York and were prepared to use it if the United States won any gold medals. But instead of the average of three captured by American athletes since the start of the Winter Olympics, including the three at Squaw Valley, the United States won only one, that by 500-meter speed skater Terry McDermott--and ABC was able to accommodate his award ceremony without the use of the satellite. However, they did use it to transmit fifteen minutes of the opening ceremony as Jim McKay described the four hundred athletes representing thirty-eight countries parading through the huge 50,000 seat stadium in the Bergisel mountains. As the signal beamed his opening remarks from Bergisel Stadium to Bethesda split-levels and Billings singles bars, ABC began its milestone Olympic coverage." The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV internet article by Joseph Gallant (notquite@hotmail.com) "On January 29th, 1964, ABC began its first Olympics, the opening day of the Innsbruck games. Although there was a satellite by this time, it was not in a stationary orbit, so very little of ABC's Innsbruck coverage would be sent by satellite. Instead, as CBS did in Rome four years earlier, tape was shot, edited, and flown across the Atlantic to New York. Still, with most Winter Olympic events occurring during the morning hours, nearly everything was broadcast the same day it occurred. Critics noted that ABC's coverage in Innsbruck was vastly superior to what CBS had done just four years before." The Real McKay by Jim McKay "The bidding process for the 1964 Winter Games was a remarkably informal one compared with the complicated, formalized procedures of today. "Roone Arledge and Chet Simmons, then the two top executives of ABC Sports, flew into Munich, where they rented a limousine to take them to Innsbruck and across the Austrian border in the Tyrol, just a few miles from the Brenner Pass leading to northern Italy. The driver happened to be a young man named Kurt Fuchs. He spoke his own brand of English, learned entirely by listening to U.S. Armed Forces Radio and by chauffeuring American tourists. "Upon arrival in Innsbruck, Arledge and Simmons had their first informal meeting with Herr Professor Wolfgang, chairman of the Innsbruck Olympic Organizing Committee. Professor Wolfgang said that no interpreter would be needed, since he spoke perfect English. It sounded a bit less than perfect to the Americans, but they went ahead, discussing some rather complicated aspects of the proposed coverage. Wolfgang kept nodding assent. "In time he looked at this watch and halted the proceedings. "'Well, gentlemen,' he said, 'It is interesting what you say, but my clock tells me that I must go now. So I bid you hello.' "Hello? "Obviously, an interpreter would be needed for the next meeting. But who? The only person available was at the wheel of the limousine. And so Kurt Fuchs became the interpreter for the rights acquisition of the 1964 Winter Games. "Our coverage of the Games themselves was a far different and more primitive process than is allowed by today's space-age technology. The telecasts would be almost entirely on tape, although two short segments would be sent live through the new marvel, a communications satellite. The satellite of those days whirled around the planet Earth at a mind-boggling speed, rather than being anchored at one spot in space. This meant that it was available for use at any given spot on Earth for about a three-minute window as it passed overhead. So we only sent a very short portion of the opening ceremony and another brief segment on the last day live to the U.S. "The heart of our operation, though, was a battery of videotape machines. The Austrians assigned the machines space in the basement of the brand-new ice arena, a cold, damp, and depressing area. More important than the ambience was the fact that fresh cement dust kept drifting down and settling into the tape machines. As the operators recorded the events, they had to keep blowing their breath into the whirling cylinders to keep the cement dust from clogging them up. "Our method of getting the tapes back to the U.S. was also rather primitive and uncertain. "Each night at something like 3:00 A.M., a recently retired U.S. air force colonel, Jim McNu, loaded the show into the trunk of his rental car and began a lonely drive over the mountains and through the snowstorms to the Munich airport. He had to make it in time to put the tapes on Pan Am flight 101 to New York. One flat tire or one impassable snowstorm and we would have been out of business for the day." Here is the first few minutes of an ABC special previewing the 1964 Innsbruck Games, hosted by Jim McKay - whose jacket has the ABC Innsbruck 1964 logo patch on it. Tune in next time for NBC coverage of Tokyo 1964!

Here is CBS coverage of Rome 1960: GAMES OF THE XVIIth OLYMPIAD ROME, 1960 CBS Rights Fee: $394,000 Production Costs: $266,000 20 Hours Executive Producer: Sig Mickelson Studio Producer: ? (Week 1) Bob Allison (Week 2) Host: Jim McKay Reporters: Bud Palmer Dick Kirschner Gil Stratton Bob Richards Friday, August 26 -- 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM (All Times ET) Opening Ceremony Boxing Saturday, August 27 -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Boxing Swimming - Women Diving Soccer -- 11:30 PM - 12:30 AM Highlights Sunday, August 28 -- 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Swimming - Men Swimming - Women Water Polo Cycling -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Diving - Men Diving - Women Track & Field - Men’s 4x100m Relay Monday, August 29 -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Swimming - Men Swimming - Women Cycling Boxing Tuesday, August 30 -- 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Basketball Boxing Gymnastics - Women Diving Cycling -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Swimming - Men Swimming - Women Wednesday, August 31 -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Fencing - Men Swimming - Men Swimming - Women Diving Boxing Thursday, September 1 -- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Water Polo Greco-Roman Wrestling Boxing Swimming - Men Friday, September 2 -- 8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Boxing Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women Basketball -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Track & Field - Men Swimming - Women Saturday, September 3 -- 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Track & Field - Road Walk Boxing Basketball Fencing Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women Diving Water Polo -- 8: 30 PM - 9:00 PM Basketball Boxing Water Polo Swimming - Men ? - Women’s Relay -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Track & Field - Men Water Polo Sunday, September 4 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Rowing Basketball Boxing Track & Field - Men Fencing - Women -- 11:15 PM - 11:30 PM Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women Monday, September 5 -- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Track & Field - Men Basketball Boxing Track & Field - Women Swimming - Women -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Swimming - Men Water Polo Tuesday, September 6 -- 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM Fencing - Men Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Boxing Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women Wednesday, September 7 -- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Fencing - Men Freestyle Wrestling Track & Field Gymnastics -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Track & Field - Men Soccer Field Hockey Freestyle Wrestling Weightlifting Thursday, September 8 -- 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM Track & Field - Men’s Discus Final Track & Field - Men’s Pole Vault Final Track & Field - Women’s 800m Final Equestrian -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Equestrian Weightlifting Gymnastics Basketball - Quarterfinals Friday, September 9 -- 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM Track & Field - Men Track & Field - Women -- 11:15 PM - 11:45 PM Gymnastics Weightlifting Basketball - Quarterfinals Fencing - Sabre Saturday, September 10 -- 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Gymnastics Fencing Field Hockey Weightlifting Equestrian -- 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Basketball - Semifinals Gymnastics Soccer -- 9:00 PM - 9:30 PM Gymnastics Field Hockey Basketball - Semifinals Equestrian Sunday, September 11 -- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Fencing - Sabre Equestrian Shooting - Rifle Weightlifting Gymnastics Basketball - Final Monday, September 12 -- 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Equestrian Marathon - Finish Review of Games Closing Ceremony The Thrill of Victory... by Burt Randolph Sugar "TV ‘found’ the Olympics when CBS News paid...$660,000 for the rights plus some production ‘gimmies’ to the Summer Olympics from Rome... Suddenly...boxers Cassius Clay and Nino Benvenuti, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, distance runners Peter Snell, Herb Elliot, and Abebe Bikila, and swimmers Murray Rose and Dawn Fraser were seen by more people than had witnessed the previous twenty games combined. They were instant stars and television had an idealquadrennial program." The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV internet article by Joseph Gallant (notquite@hotmail.com) "CBS also had the Summer Games from Rome. As there were no communications satellites yet, tape was shot, edited, and quickly flown across the Atlantic to what was then Idlewild Airport in New York where they would be put on a videotape deck in a mobile unit connected to the CBS network, allowing most events to be broadcast the same day they occurred. "A youthful Jim McKay, who divided his time between the sports department and narrating a daytime court-drama called The Verdict Is Yours hosted the Rome telecasts--but from the New York studio. McKay did a superb job with the Summer Games, but his contract with CBS would lapse in early 1961." The Real McKay by Jim McKay "And then, one early June afternoon in 1960, I had a most unexpected phone call from Bill MacPhail, head of CBS Sports. ‘How would you like to be the studio host for the Rome Olympics?’ he asked. It was a bolt from the blue, just the providential boost that I needed at that moment. Naturally, I jumped at the offer. When I told Margaret, it was her turn to cry. "The logistics for televising an Olympics were different in those days. A team of on-scene commentators was in Rome. They described the events, which were recorded on videotape, then flown to New York, where they were edited and put on the air. "I sat in an eerily lit studio located in a loft atop Grand Central Station in New York, in front of a spooky-looking urn with a flame leaping from it. The studio looked more like a funeral parlor than an Olympics anchor position. "I was excited about the job, but from the beginning things were badly organized. The tapes arrived from Rome erratically, sometimes with commentary, sometimes without even a guide script for me to use as I ad-libbed my way through the events. Sometimes the tapes were frozen from their long trip in a cold cargo hold, and the producer and I would have to hold them against our bodies to warm them enough to be edited. We had no format. The whole first night’s show was a journey through chaos. I began to wonder if my ‘big break’ might have been the worst thing that could have happened to me. "The show aired at eight in the evening, but in the daytime I went out to the airport to interview returning medal winners. I remember standing at the door of a plane as a young boxer, who had just won the gold medal in the light heavyweight class, emerged. He was friendly, with a sweet smile on his face, but seemed somewhat shy. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali. "The entire first week of the Olympic telecasts was a disaster, visually and production-wise. At that point, a high-level meeting was held, at which the sports executive responsible for the New York end of the telecast was put on the griddle. He blamed the problems on me. Fortunately, a friend of mine was also at the meeting. He defended me and had Bob Allison, a news department producer, assigned to the show to pull things together. If my friend hadn’t been there, I probably would have been fired. Allison and I got along just fine. At our first meeting, he asked me what he could do to help me. ‘Give me a format,’ I said. He immediately doused the dismal studio flame, handed me a tight format for each evening’s program, and made a few other changes; the show improved and all turned out well." Here is a clip from CBS' coverage of the Rome Games: Tune in next time for ABC coverage of Innsbruck 1964!