DAY 12 DAYTIME HIGHLIGHTS OF NBC WINTER OLYMPICS COVERAGE
“Can’t wait to see those headlines in Amsterdam tomorrow.”– NBC’s Al Michaels on the Netherland’s Sven Kramer being disqualified from the 10,000m
“He’s going to have to pull a Ryan Miller.”– NBC’s Eddie Olczyk on Switzerland’s Goalie Jonas Hiller going up against Team USA
VANCOUVER – February 23, 2010 – Daytime coverage of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games continued today on NBC and USA Network. On NBC, live coverage included the men’s speed skating 10,000m. Also in daytime, women’s ski cross competition and Nordic combined team K125 competition. USA Network featured live coverage of the first men’s hockey elimination round game between Switzerland and Belarus. Switzerland won the game 3-2 after a shootout and will face Team USA in the quarterfinal tomorrow.
NBC daytime host Al Michaels sat down with figure skating legends Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming to discuss tonight’s ladies figure skating short program, live in primetime.
Coverage highlights include:
NBC
DOROTHY HAMILL AND PEGGY FLEMING PREVIEWED TONIGHT’S LADIES’ SHORT PROGRAM
FLEMING ON SOUTH KOREA’S KIM YU-NA: “She’s beautiful. She has the combination of the technical elements and the grace and musicality, and that’s what you want in skating. What Evan Lysacek did in his long program was absolute perfection of that blend.”
“She skates with speed, and that’s what makes it even more exciting. She gets up in the air, she has beautiful body lines. She’s got everything.”
HAMILL ON KIM YU-NA: “She’s fantastic. It’s really her competition to lose. She’s reigning world champion. She’s so powerful and her jumps are so high.”
FLEMING ON CANADA’S JOANNIE ROCHETTE AND THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER ON SATURDAY: “It just takes the wind out of you for sure. I don’t know how she’s really going to get out there and skate with that heavy heart that she has and that loss. Sometimes it’s better to just plow through and keep going and she can collapse later.”
HAMILL ON USA’S RACHEL FLATT: “She’s sweet. If she skates well she has a chance at maybe a medal. She’s seventeen. This is her first year really on the big scene. She’s a terrific hard worker and a great athlete and maybe not as much flair as some of the other women. She’s the future, definitely.”
FLEMING ON USA’S MIRAI NAGASU: “Sometimes the innocence gives you an advantage because you can just go out, be free, be yourself. She’s a beautiful skater. She’s got that combination of the technical side and the artistic. She’s very musical, very much like Kim Yu-Na. Very nice style. I thin she’s going to do very well here. This is setting the stage for our sport and their careers.”
MEN’S SPEED SKATING 10,000M GOLD MEDAL FINAL
Dan Hicks (Play-By-Play), Dan Jansen (Analyst), Andrea Kremer (Reporter)
Gold: Lee Seung-Hoon, Korea
Silver: Ivan Skobrev, Russia
Bronze: Bob De Jong, Netherlands
JANSEN ON KRAMER BEING DISQUALIFIED: “The crowd is completely silent here.”
“I’ve seen it once or twice in my career but never with a top skater and certainly never in the Olympic games.”
“Forgot to change lanes. Unbelievable.”
HICKS ON KRAMER: “This will be talked about in the Netherlands forever. How Sven Kramer did not finish in the proper lane and lets the gold medal get away. Wow.”
MICHAELS ON KRAMER’S DISQUALIFICATION: “Can’t wait to see those headlines in Amsterdam tomorrow.”
WOMEN’S FREESTYLE SKIING SKI CROSS COMPETITION
Pat Parnell (Play-By-Play), Todd Harris (Analyst), Tina Dixon (Reporter)
HARRIS ON SKI CROSS: “It’s winter’s wicked ride here.”
MOSELEY ON THE COURSE: “The designer said ‘I wanted to keep the skiers busy every five to six seconds.’”
USA NETWORK
MEN’S HOCKEY ELIMINATION ROUND GAME: SWITZERLAND VS. BELARUS
Bill Patrick (Host), Jeremy Roenick (Studio Analyst), Mike Milbury (Studio Analyst), Mike Emrick (Play-by-Play), Eddie Olczyk (Analyst), Pierre McGuire (Reporter)
Switzerland: 3 Belarus: 2
MILBURY ON TEAM SWITZERLAND: “The Swiss have been a very good team in this tournament, gave the U.S. all they could handle.”
MCGUIRE ON TEAM SWITZERLAND: “There’s no lack of composure on the Swiss bench. They’re a team that’s got a lot of veteran experience.”
OLCZYK ON SWITZERLAND GOALTENDING AGAINST TEAM USA: “Jonas Hiller, he’s going to have to be great. He’s going to have to pull a Ryan Miller.If Jonas Hiller is not great, then the Americans will torch Switzerland.
OLCZYK ON THE TOURNAMENT: “The road for Canada is not easy. They have to win four games in six nights if they want to win gold. For the Americans, it’s a little easier, especially in light of the match ups they could potentially have.”
TEAM USA’S RYAN CALLAHAN ON PLAYING SWITZERLAND IN THE QUARTERFINAL: “Anytime you see a team the second time, you know their tendencies. You know they’re going to be a team that goes straight ahead at you and pressures us a lot. They have a lot of speed. We have to limit our turnovers. I think that was the biggest thing in the first game, we had a lot of turnovers against them and they countered on us pretty well. It’s going to be a tough game.”
WOMEN’S CURLING: USA VS. CHINA
Fred Roggin (Host), Andrew Catalon (Play-by-Play), Colleen Jones (Analyst), Elfi Schlegel (Reporter)
China: 6 USA: 5
SCHLEGEL ON CHINA’S COACH DAN RAFAEL: “He has not spoken to his girls since yesterday. In fact, he even cancelled the team meeting. He tells me they don’t have the passion. He’s looking to this team to pioneer the sport in China, but he’s exhausted trying to make them comprehend it all.”
JONES ON TEAM CHINA: “I am so impressed with where they’ve come in such a short period of time. I almost can’t fault anything they do because I just find them inspiring.”
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