DAY 6 DAYTIME HIGHLIGHTS OF NBC WINTER OLYMPICS COVERAGE
“Marit Bjoergen ends the Norwegian drought!”– NBC’S Chad Selmela on Norway Winning A Gold
VANCOUVER – February 17, 2010 – Daytime coverage of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games continued today on NBC, USA Network and MSNBC. On NBC, live coverage included the men’s and women’s cross-country sprint gold medal final. USA Network carried live coverage of the women’s curling match between Team USA and Germany. Live on MSNBC, Finland faced off against Belarus in men’s hockey.
NBC’s Mary Carillo stopped by the studio to chat with Al Michaels about the history of snowboarding and the father of the sport, Jake Burton. Also, below are highlights from last night’s late night coverage.
NBC Nightly News’ Brian Williams previewed tonight’s news broadcast.
Coverage highlights include:
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST NIGHT’S LATE NIGHT SHOW HOSTED BY MARY CARILLO
CARILLO ON TONIGHT’S SNOWBOARD HALFPIPE GOLD MEDAL FINAL:
“We look forward to the halfpipe and possibly more Olympians winning gold medals while wearing jeans.”
CARILLO ON TOMORROW’S MEN’S FIGURE SKATING GOLD MEDAL FINAL: “History is likely to be written on Thursday.”
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MICHAELS ON NORWAY IN THE CROSS-COUNTRY GOLD MEDAL FINAL: “It’s a beautiful day at Whistler. Norway expected its Nordic stars to dominate at Whistler Park, but so far, no gold. Even worse, archrival Sweden has two gold. Today Norway again tries to get back on track on Day 6 of the twenty first Olympic Winter Games.”
MICHAELS TO WILLAMS ON NORWAY FINALLY WINNING GOLD: “I know one thing, the Nightly News will be a lot happier in Oslo tonight.”
HIGHLIGHTS OF CARILLO’S PIECE ON SNOWBOARDING AND JAKE BURTON, FOUNDER OF BURTON’S SNOWBOARDS
CARILLO ON SNOWBOARDING THEN AND NOW:
“Epitomized by the magnetic style and attitude by the defending champion, Shaun White. Snowboarding is a sport merged with a lifestyle, both anti-establishment and corporate catnip. Snowboarding had much quieter beginnings, and many of its growing pains and gains occurred here, Stratton, Vermont. What began as a countercultural alternative to skiing down a mountain is now a marquee Olympic sport and worldwide way of life. Stratton, Vermont has a classic centuries-old colonial feel. It was also the site of a more modern American revolution, spurred by an inventor slash godfather figure, Jake Burton.
JAKE BURTON ON THE EARLY DAYS OF SNOWBOARDING: “It was awfully rough back in the day. We were wearing basketball shoes. The events were straight shots and we were going over 60 miles an hour with basketball shoes on. Rubber, like water-ski bindings is the best way to explain it, it was really prehistoric.”
CARILLO ON ‘SNURFING’:“Before there was snowboarding, there was ‘snurfing’. Invented by a Michigan dad named Sherman Poppen. In the late ‘70s, the mid-23 year old Burton added a binding to the board. Then he went to work on the next problem: rejection. At first, ski resorts banned the sport’s longhaired aficionados with their trail-eating boards.”
BURTON ON BEING THE FATHER OF SNOWBOARDING:“People sort of credit me with having this vision of where snowboarding would go and I had no clue. I started it as a backyard, backhill type thing that you could do in powder, hike up the hill and then sort of surf down it and call it a day.”
SHAUN WHITE ON BURTON: “He’s the father of our sport in a way. He’s the one who brought it to the mainstream and fought for us to be on mountains. It’s so funny to meet him because you would expect somebody so different, but he’s one of us. It’s nice to have somebody down-to-earth like that. A true, real person who represents all of our voices.”
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY SPRINT GOLD MEDAL FINAL
Al Trautwig (Play-By-Play), Chad Salmela (Analyst)
Gold: Marit Bjorgen, Norway
Silver: Justyna Kowalczyk, Poland
Bronze: Petra Majdic, Slovenia
TRAUTWIG ON SLOVENIA’S PETRA MAJDIC: “The story of the woman’s individual sprint begins with some agony and shock. In a warm up lap, Petra Majdic of Slovenia, one of the favorites to contend for the medals, has taken a horrible fall, the kind of fall you almost never see in cross-country.”
SALMELA ON MAJDIC: “She just lost control and slid right off the trail into a ravine, it was unbelievable.”
SALMELA ON NORWAY’S MARIT BJORGEN: “She’s firing on all pistons, going as fast as she possibly can.”
SALMELA ON BJORGEN WINNING GOLD: “Marit Bjoergen ends the Norwegian drought!”
TRAUTWIG ON MAJDIC COMING BACK TO WIN BRONZE: “From the bottom of a ditch, and a hospital x-ray to a bronze medal on the same day. Wow.”
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY GOLD MEDAL FINAL
Al Trautwig (Play-By-Play), Chad Salmela (Analyst)
Gold: Nikita Kriukov, Russia
Silver: Alexander Panzhinskiy, Russia
Bronze: Petter Northug, Jr., Norway
TRAUTWIG ON THE SWEDEN NORWAY BATTLE IN CROSS-COUNTRY EVENTS: “It’s Sweden and Norway at it again. Yet another chapter on the white snow here north of Vancouver.”
TRAUTWIG ON THE RUSSIAN’S TAKING GOLD AND SILVER: “All day long Panzhinskiy has had a dreamy kind of day and now Kriukov will join him to make it a Russian dream.”
MSNBC:
MEN’S HOCKEY: FINLAND vs. BELARUS
Bill Patrick (Host), Cammi Granato (Studio Analyst), Kenny Albert (Play-by-Play), AJ Mleczko (Analyst)
Finland: 5 Belarus: 1
OLCZYK ON TEAM FINLAND’S MIKKO KOIVU:
“Mikko Koivu, is the most underrated player in the NHL. He does so much, he is so smart.”
EMRICK ON BELARUS’ HEAD OF STATE ATTENDING A PRACTICE:
“It is not often that the Head of State will attend a practice and go on the ice with you. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko did that.”
USA NETWORK:
WOMEN’S CURLING: USA vs. GERMANY
Fred Roggin (Host), Andrew Catalon (Play-by-play), Don Duguid (Analyst),
Elfi Schlegel (Reporter)
Germany: 6 USA: 5
JONES ON GERMANY’S SKIP ANDREAS SCHOEPP: “Andreas Schoepp is a taskmaster. If you see her smile out there, take a picture.”
JONES ON TEAM USA’S ATTITUDE:
“They’re very enthusiastic. They give each other lots of encouragement, and they’re very supportive of each other as teammates.”
CATALON ON TEAM USA’S NATALIE NICHOLSON:
“She’s the sparkplug, no doubt.”
BELOW ARE HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST NIGHT’S MEN’S HOCKEY
MSNBC:
9:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Bill Patrick (Host), Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick (Studio Analysts), Kenny Albert (Play-by-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst)
MEN’S HOCKEY
Russia: 8 Latvia: 2
ROENICK ON TEAM RUSSIA:“I would be scared if I was a goaltender going up against these guys.”
MILBURY ON ALEXANDER OVECHKIN:“This is the new era, this is the Ovechkin era. He is setting all sorts of records.”
MILBURY ON TEAM RUSSIA: “This is a very skilled, very special team.”
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