Oh thank you so much for putting this up! I have been looking for it for so long. I video taped it at the time but can't find it. This was one of the best parts of the Olymics for me.
Sadly, these were the final Summer Olympics aired on ABC. They haven't been the same since. ABC put the Olympics on the TV map in the U.S., and set a standard that NBC has yet to master, some 30+ years later. In fact, NBC bought the performance rights to Arnaud's "Bugler's Dream" (the theme song ABC used since 1964) because they couldn't come up with one on their own that captured the emotion of the games. NBC currently holds the US rights until 2032. I miss the Olympics on ABC.
eddie mag I was born 11 months after Calgary, so the mixture of CBS and NBC is all I’ve known. While I feel like Mike Tirico is a better host than Costas, Jim McKay’s standard is hard to top. At least we have the ability now to watch events with the International feed so it isn’t as biased. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a proud American, but I want a wider scope for such a global competition.
@@andysorensen1737 Jim McKay was an Olympics encyclopedia. And teaming him up with ABCNews' Peter Jennings was brilliant. Peter Jennings was a geo-political encyclopedia, and it showed especially during the parade of athletes.
Still to this day, 2022, the most awe-inspiring and overall amazing and successful Olympics of all time. Los Angeles, America in 2028 sure has set the bar very high for itself in 1984.
The Sarajevo highlights set to this will make any Bosnian cry because "Yugoslavia" was such a peaceful nation then. For 13 days in 84 Bosnians, Serbs and Croatians competed together under one flag peacefully and with harmony "Yugoslavia" was in fact praised for their hospitality and friendliness. But no one could have imagined what was about to happen a few years later with the civil war that tore the region apart.
I'm an old man, and I'm afraid I will never run or play any significant sports again. But I had my moments, yes I did. And believe you me, young people who read this, that there is NOTHING, and I mean NO THING on this earth, than the sweet taste of self achievement. Be it on the Olympic podium, or in those sweet minutes after recess, before the class starts again, when you know that the triumph is YOURS, and yours alone. Ain't no "participation trophy" that tastes so sweet as that. So go for it. Go all out, leave nothing for "the way back". "Participation" is not even for the birds, and any bird that has caught a worm or escaped a cat will tell you that.
