NBC Primetime Show
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings win their third straight Olympic gold medal
Chris Marlowe: “It’s over in London. Misty and Kerri three-peat Olympic gold.”
Chris Marlowe: “It’s celebration time once again for the golden girls.”
Kevin Wong: “If you were looking for a storybook ending, you just got it.”
Kerri Walsh Jennings on winning gold: “So much hard work, and love, and dedication, and faith, and belief, and support. I mean, we have an army behind us and there’s so much love at home. Thank you everyone at home…Misty and I have something really special. The world knows it; we know it and we embrace it. I just wish we were playing again because I feel like we played terribly, but we won and I am so honored to have played the last 12 years with Misty and I’m just so proud.”
Misty May-Treanor: “The stadiums keep growing. Probably 15,000 plus people probably came out to watch this match tonight. And that’s what the players have been involved with is growing the sport. Kerri and I want to go down as the best team in history and to go down as three time gold medalists. When we came together, this is what we wanted. Believing in our goal, that’s why we’re standing here.”
TRACK & FIELD
Women’s 200 Meters: Allyson Felix of the USA wins the Olympic gold medal
Ato Boldon: “So after being a bridesmaid for the last two Olympics, it’s Allyson Felix who will be throwing the flowers tonight as the young lady who her high school teammates used to call ‘chicken legs’ is now the Olympic champion.”
Women’s 400 Meter Hurdles : Russian Natalya Antyukh won the gold narrowly defeating American Lashinda Demus
Lewis Johnson: “Lashinda, four years ago you were out at the semifinals. In Athens you didn’t make the team. Now describe the road that has led you to the silver medal here in London.”
Lashinda Demus: “I’m very grateful to be on the podium, but of course I wanted the gold medal, and I will not stop until I get that gold medal. You will see me in 2016. I’m happy to be an American and perform here for my country, but I will not stop until I get the gold medal”
NBC SPORTS NETWORK
Men’s Basketball: USA 119, Australia 86
Doc Rivers: “The one thing they [Team USA] can do that no one else can [successfully] is they can turn around their game completely with defense…then they turn their defense on, they turn their game on.”
Doug Collins: “To me, he [Lebron James] is like Michael Jordan. He knows when he has to score and he has this incredible ability at reading his team, his opponents, and most importantly—what his team needs to win…He’s the best defender in his position, like Michael Jordan was—and those two are definitely alike.”
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