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Almost nothing could take away from the success of the first round of Olympic soccer held at Harvard Stadium last week, although from the way ABC covered it, the American public could well be unaware that the Olympic torch ever graced campus turf...
...official, Peter Vellappan, a Malaysian member of FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, used a press conference after the last game Friday to launch a broadside at ABC Sports for its soccer coverage--or lack thereof--a weird trend given that soccer on the West Coast has been pulling in crowds...
Another knowledgeable soccer commentator, Seamus P. Malin, said that ABC has in general been "tremendously cool" towards soccer all along--especially in light of the poor showing it got out of a television package it signed with the North American Soccer League (NASL...
Whatever technology or ingenuity could provide, ABC bought. At a cost of more than $150,000, it built a sleek futuristic van, 22 ft. long and 7 ft. wide, packing it with cameras and monitors to record the 26 miles and 385 yds. of the marathon. The van's shots of runners will be supplemented by hand-held cameras on two specially adapted motorcycles moving along the marathon route. All three vehicles will be powered by electricity, since exhaust fumes might bother the athletes. To follow the rowers and canoeists without swamping them in the wake of an ordinary...
...ABC has grabbed experienced hands wherever it could find them. Experts from the BBC will direct the soccer and equestrian events, a West German will coordinate coverage of team handball and a Dutchman will be in charge of cycling. Along with its own reporters, the network has also hired a score of expert analysts, including Olympian High Jumper Dwight Stones...