NBC Primetime Show
Thursday, August 9, 2012
TRACK & FIELD
200 Meters: Usain Bolt won the 200 meters, becoming the first athlete to repeat as double Olympic sprint champion.
Ato Boldon prior to the race: “And when we interviewed Bolt in Kingston, he didn’t he say he wanted people to turn off their TV’s after these performances and say ‘Ah, that was nice.’ He wanted everyone to be in amazement as they said, ‘Wow, he wowed us in the 100 with an Olympic record with the second fastest time ever.’ And with his flair for the Olympics, he doesn’t want to win this race. He wants to have a performance that will make you remember where you were when you saw it.”
Ato Boldon after the race: “Tom, what else does he have to do? Let all the debate and all the discussion about him end. This night, in the London Olympic stadium, Usain St. Leo Bolt of Jamaica is the best sprinter that has ever lived.”
Ato Boldon: “Bolt runs himself into history as the first man to do the 100 and 200 meter in back-to-back Olympics Games. He simply has no equal in this era or any other.”
Lewis Johnson interviewing Bolt: “So after the double gold in Beijing and the double gold here, what’s left to prove for you?”
Usain Bolt: “Nothing really. I’ve shown the world that I’m the best. All I have to do right now is get myself another gold.”
Lewis Johnson: “Can we look for you in Rio?”
Usain Bolt: “Definitely, I definitely want to finish my career at the Olympics and I want to do what no one else has done before and that’s win three times back-to-back-to-back.”
Tom Hammond: “And I can’t really remember an athlete with this much charisma and this incredible performance since the incomparable Muhammad Ali. Usain Bolt made history in Olympic Stadium tonight and he did it with a smile on his face.”
Decathlon: Ashton Eaton takes the gold
Tom Hammond: “Ashton Eaton to claim the title of world’s greatest athlete on the 100th anniversary of the Olympics decathlon. Ashton Eaton of the United States wins the gold.”
Ashton Eaton: “I’m just a part of it. I don’t think I’ve made my own history but what started 100 years ago with Jim Thorpe. I’m just so thankful to be in this moment right now with my fellow Americans and no one can touch us. It’s an incredible feeling.”
800 Meters
Tom Hammond on David Rudisha of Kenya breaking the world record in the 800 meters: “Running for his community for his tribe and for the entire country of Kenya, David Rudisha makes history at Olympic stadium by winning the Olympic gold medal and doing it in record time.”
Women’s Water Polo: U.S. wins the gold
Bob Costas on the entire team, including coaches, jumping into the pool: “What do you do when you win a gold medal? Everyone, and I mean everyone, winds up in the pool.”
Bob Costas interview with Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach and Carli Lloyd.
Abby Wambach: “This team is so deep. This team faced some interesting times going down two goals against France, having to come back three separate times against Canada, we really are a group of women that aren’t willing to quit. In certain situations, random people show up at random times. That’s what’s so great about this team. We never gave up and it was a full team commitment to get this gold medal.”
NBC SPORTS NETWORK
Women’s Soccer Final: United States 2, Japan 1
Arlo White: “It’s all over. Redemption for the United States. Beaten on penalties in the World Cup Final 389 days ago, they’ve come back to win the gold medal against Japan at Wembley Stadium in London 2012.”
Arlo White: “These two teams have been involved in two epic battles over the last two summers. The United States came out second best in Germany, but here in Northwest London they are all smiles.”
Arlo White: “There is a relationship between these two teams now. There is a respect between them which I have rarely seen in international soccer. It’s like they’re on this journey together.”
CNBC
Women’s Boxing
Bob Papa on Great Britain’s Nicola Adams, winner of the flyweight division: “And that is it, the first ever women’s gold medal bout in boxing. Let the record show the fly gold goes to Nicola Adams of Great Britain.”
–NBC OLYMPICS–
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