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...reporters and executives steeled themselves to cover the Olympics by taking practice runs down precipitous worst-case scenarios, but they could hardly have expected the succession of misfortunes-natural, mechanical and even political-that befell the network during the Games' opening week. Said Jim McKay: "You know the old line about the best laid plans of mice and men. I don't know how the mice made out, but the men have had a tough time...
LEHIGH (80)--Ron Gregory 4-6--14; Seamus Dowling 1-0--2; Paul Wickman 5-0--10; Mike Andorelewicz 5-1--11; Mike Poisha 9-3--21; Vernon McKay 0-0--0; Raymond Lee 2-0--4; Don Henderson 2-3--7; Joe Turocy 0-0--0; Doug Gaffiney 0-0--0, Turocy 32-16--80 Fouled Out; Gregory, Wcikman, Androlewcz, Henderson...
...technology and good old Jim McKay to tell the story...
While spinning out the story of the Games, McKay avoids the cliches with which so much of television sports is infested, concentrating on small events in time, not the record-setting times in events. His own favorite moments tend to center on individuals like the Japanese gymnast at Mexico City in 1968 who competed with a broken kneecap. "Television has made it possible for the audience to identify with individual athletes," he explains. Every four years, McKay searches for something rarely seen nowadays, something that, ironically, has been lost in part through the very medium in which he works...
Although far from an amateur, McKay obviously loves what he does and performs with the same concentration as that shown by the athletes he describes. With his 65th birthday on the horizon before the next Olympiad, he thinks about slowing down some, spending more time at his Maryland farm and racing a small stable of horses. Perhaps this will be his last Games. But then he stirs restlessly at the thought of Calgary in four years. "The Olympics," he says, "is the last real drama." That is precisely what he and ABC are striving to create for 13 days...