Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Hobbs, '71, heavyweight rowing silver medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympics, slaps his significant girth, smiles and says, "This is a change in strategy."
Determined to paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political...
But more is involved than dollars, and ABC, which considers itself the sports network, believes the Olympics are important to its prestige. It has televised the past three Olympics and was furious that in the last bidding NBC captured the rights to the 1980 Moscow Olympics for $87 million. ABC...
Arledge has turned previous Olympics into spectacular TV events. In 1960, in the dark days before Arledge showed what sports could do for ratings, CBS was able to buy the Olympics for only $550,000-.24% of what ABC paid last week. In 1968 ABC was still able to get...
In 1972, ABC allotted the Olympics only 64 hours. Next summer, to get back its $87 million, NBC will throw out almost everything else on its schedule for two weeks and devote 150 hours to events in Moscow. In 1984 ABC plans to raise the total to 200 hours. It...