Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fair banks Ranch Country Club, transformed into a picture-book endurance course, and the venerable Santa Anita race track's show jumping and dressage ring. With precise rounds in the individual three-day event, Mark Todd, an Auckland dairy farmer, galloped to New Zealand's first equestrian gold medal (the U.S.'s Karen Stives and Britain's Virginia Holgate took silver and bronze). Team dressage, which tests a horse's memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad to its first ever gold...
...highlighted in prime time, when attracting an audience is most urgent, coverage has tended to be a little more balanced. Boxing Reporter Howard Cosell spoke enthusiastically about athletes from a variety of nations and led the way in pointing up U.S. Welterweight Mark Breland's first-bout unsteadiness. Equestrian Commentator Tad Coffin, a former U.S. gold medalist, described the multinational contenders in his sport with impressive authority and fairness. (Soviet coverage has been more one-sided than ABC's: its state-run TV has carried no footage at all of the Games...
While the choice of shots for the U.S. audience has occasionally seemed calculated to make viewers cry every few minutes, ABC has offered much more than pathos. It has persuasively conveyed the uncelebrated thrills of volleyball, the perils of equestrian cross-country, the arcane strategy of cycling, along with the explosive power of swimming and track. By recording the comic pratfalls of riders and weight lifters, the poignant stumbles of pentathlon runners in the home stretch, it has shown that sports are not as easy as the best athletes make them look. With the utter clarity of its new technique...
Most of the major events at Montreal were concentrated within a 25-to 30-sq.-mi. area, but Los Angeles has 221 events spread over 4,500 sq. mi., from the northernmost (canoeing and rowing) near Santa Barbara to the southernmost (the endurance test of the three-day equestrian event) at San Diego, 190 miles away. Says Barnathan: "If the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City was a 1 in order of difficulty and Montreal in 1976 was an 8, then this one is about...
...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...