1980 olympic champions in figure scating?
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Men's Singles:\nGold - Robin Cousins (United Kingdom)\nSilver - Jan Hoffmann (East Germany)\nBronze - Charles Tickner (USA)\n\nWomen's Singles:\nGold - Anett Pötzsch (East Germany)\nSilver - Linda Fratianne (USA)\nBronze - Dagmar Lurz (Germany)\n\nPairs:\nGold - Irina Rodnina / Aleksandr Zaytsev (Soviet Union)\nSilver - Marina Cherkasova / Sergey Shakray (Soviet Union)\nBronze - Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorff (East Germany)\n\nIce Dancing:\nGold - Natalya Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov (Soviet Union)\nSilver - Krisztina Regöczy / Andras Sallay (Hungary)\nBronze - Irina Moiseyeva / Andrey Minenkov (Soviet Union)\n\nThe site below gives you Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners in each of these categories from 1908 to 2002.
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Wait! When were the Olympics on?? Wait.....isn't that this year? When are they? What?? They've aleady come and gone?? \n\nI see your point. I remember as a kid when the Olympics were bigger than Dallas. (Ok is Dallas really that big?) But my point is that they were uber special. We actually knew the athletes prior to going into the Olympics. We were invested! I think that is what is missing these days. We don't take enough of a personal approach to who we are supporting on our team. We focus on Bad Boy Bodie Miller who is just dumb enough to make all internationalists believe this is the epitome of American sportsmanship. I would love to see NBC take a different approach. Was it CBS that had done such a wonderful job before?? Is that the difference? hmmmmmmmmm
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yeah but if not that way, how do we decide? \nOf course, at any given moment someone might to better or worse then they usually do but there is no way of comparing without competing and the competitive edge makes the psort more interesting. Also, if one athlete didn't do so well next time, it is moe exciting for them to outscore everyone next time.\n\nBesides I am Russian - so the olympics are never bad for me :D
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I have an two articles you can read. One is from Wikipedia and the other is from the IOC Website.
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Not a good commentatator in any of the telecasting station. They are just trying to be nice. They look that they don't know the game  well enough to analize it.
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Most of the athletes from competing countries!
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In the late 1980's because we couldn't dominate the World Games, Pan American Games, nor the Olympics in basketball anymore.
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USA    9th Janauary 1980
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Very difficult to break it down to one single event so, I'll give you my top 10 in order of peference:\n\n10.  Edwin Moses, who won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record  four times.\n\n9. Javier Sotomayor, who is the only man to exceed 8 foot in the (8'-½ in,2.45 meters ) in the High Jump, when  he set the world record on July 23, 1993 in Salamanca, Spain.\n\n8. Carl Lewis, matching Jesse Owens mark of 4 gold medals in a single Olympiad, the '84 Los Angeles Games.\n\n7. Carl Lewis, matching Al Oerter's feat of winning 4 gold medals for the same event in 4 consecutive Olympiads, when he won the long jump in the '96 Atlanta Games, matching his efforts in '84, '88 and '92.\n\n6. Michael Johnson winning both the 200m and 400m races in a single Olympics, during the 1996 Atlanta Games.  He easily captured the 400m Olympic title with a time of 43.49 beating Roger Black of Great Britain by almost one second. At the 200m final, Johnson achieved a peak speed of over 40 km/h (25 mph), and finished the race in 19.32 shattering the world record by a third of a second.\n\n5.  Al Oerter became the first track and field athlete to win consecutive gold medals for the same event over the period of FOUR Olympiads. Oerter, won the Discus thow at the '56, '60, '64 & '68 Olmpics.\n\n4. Jim Thorpe's perfomance at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Along with the decathlon and pentathlon, Thorpe contested the long jump and high jump as well, but his first event scheduled was the pentathlon. Thorpe was the class of the field, winning four events. He placed only third in the javelin, an event he had never done before 1912. \n\nThe same day he won the pentathlon gold, Thorpe qualified for the high-jump final. In that final, he placed fourth, and took seventh place in the long jump. Thorpe's final event was the decathlon, where tough competition from local favorite Hugo Wieslander was expected. But Wieslander was no match for Thorpe either, finishing some 700 points behind. Thorpe placed in the top four of all ten events.\n\n3. Jessie Owens. But not for winning the 4 Olympic Gold Medals in the 36' Games, but for an extraordinary day that took place a year earlier. In a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Owns tied the record for the 100 yard dash, set world records in the long jump, 220 yard dash, and 220 yard low hurdles. With the 220 times bettering the records for 200 meter equivalents, Owns set or tied SIX World record in less thane ONE hour.\n\n2. On May 6, 1954 during a meet between British AAA and Oxford University, Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute barrier;  with a time of 3 min 59.4. \n\n1. Bob Beamon's World record jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olymipic Games. Although Beamon was a favorite, his jump was completely unexpected.  From 1935 to 1968, the long jump world record had increased only 8.25" from 26' 8'-1/2 to 27' 4-3/4. With a single jump, Beamon added nearly 22" to the record in a single day.
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by the results of their athletes in international competitions
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Unfortunately, an official video was never produced like those available since the '84 games. You can find short clips, and the occasional footage in other videos.\n\nABC owns a great deal of it since they broadcasted the games. Aside from that, a few documentaries have come out, like those from Bud Greenspan's The 1972 Munich Olympic Games: Bud Greenspan Remembers" in (2003); or the ones like "One Day in September" that was oscar nominated in 2000.\n\nBut if they ever produced one, I'd buy it!, Those were the first games I ever watched..
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I'm still trying to deccipher how ESPN (and yes, I know the E stands for Entertainment, but come on...) can show poker series.  Are they considered athletes somehow?\n\nBut seriously, my gut reaction would be Bode Miller for pulling one of the world's all-time greatest chokes and then poking fun at his married teammate because he didn't party it up in Torino like Miller did.  Good call, Bode.  I want to make the Olypics just so I can drink at bars in a city other than Truckee, CA.
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Bryant Gumbel from Real Sports on HBO said that. He said many career damaging things. Like the winter olympics being like a white convention.
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Not sure, but check out the link below, it lists lots of old announcers from the 1980's.  \n\nI thought those foreign guys with accents back in the 1980's were cool also.  They made it sound like Wrestling was real.  They were more classy and realistic.
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Well that's a bit harsh and very shifty. You are an idiot i_love_orange_crush_05. Answer any old question just to get a few points - this isn't the Olympic games, there are no trophies at the end. There is no call for abusing someone in their own question when it is a serious question - as opposed to the ones I saw under your name.\n\nWell mum2Natalee - I would have to agree with you, it is a bit boring - apart from the fake breasts on the 19 year old hottie.
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Mia Hamm said "Coach us like men, treat us like women."\n She almost got tossed from a game by Tony Dicicco in France 95. She told the coach to "leave a player alone" Both tempers flared up and Carla Overbeck played the peacekeeper. Tony after cooling down realized he was overcoaching and Mia apologized for yelling out. After the talk Mia scored three goals against Canada.
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Given Bruce Arenas comments prior to the competion, showing little respect & lots of arrogance, every foul, penalty & card against TEAM USA was justified\n\nHaving said that.........\n\nRef standards have been poor during the competition.  The refs seem to be erring on the side of caution & protecting the self christened stars of the game.  Given the $$ at stake FIFA should consider introducing video ref (especially for decisions in the penalty box).