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Page 12/The BattalionfTuesday, September 20, 1988
Sports
Give me the real Olympic music!
Games just not the same on NBC
What was there to do
on a Saturday afternoon
when the A&M football
team was inexplicabley
idle?
There was to be no
game — hurricane or
heat wave — to occupy
the time of Aggie fans
that fine weekend.
But there was a small
consolation to this
tragedy — the Olympics.
Yes, the summer
games — or should I say,
the Almost-Autumn
Olympics — were finally
upon us.
Cray
Pixley
Sports viewpoint
It had been a long wait since the thrills of
Calgary, but the time had come. The time lapse
between the winter and summer games was so
long, it was easy to lose sight of the fact that
there was even to be a Seoul sports excursion.
Yet, on the weekend when Aggies needed it
most, the games arrived.
While the Summer Olympics are a welcome
respite from sports boredom with its wide range
of events, I have been having some difficulty
warming up to the games.
There are certain aspects of the Olympics that
have become familiar through the history of its
television broadcast.
The devices used by the network that covers
the Olympics have become the games’ signature.
The past few Olympics, including the Winter
Games in Calgary, were covered by ABC. Over
the years the ABC format of the games has
become engrained and easily identifiable to
viewers.
With NBC handling the South Korean venue,
the Olympics just don’t seem like the Olympics.
Because of the unfamiliar format, the
competition has seemed like an average
afternoon of watching ESPN with its varied
programming.
As I watched the Olympics this weekend, 1
found myself becoming more and more
disgruntled with what I was viewing.
What was the problem?
“This was the Olympics,” I told myself. This is
something the athletes dream of for years. This
was the event that had me glued to my couch
watching the tube during the Calgary
competition.
But I was not quite glued to the set this time
around. The games didn’t seem quite so special.
The answer to the problem, I soon realized, was
the way the coverage was packaged.
Not that NBC was doing a less-than-
spectacular job, but the Olympics were not on
ABC.
What was it that ABC had that NBC was
lacking, I pondered?
I know it sounds very simplistic and somewhat
silly, but the first problem is theme music.
NBC was trying something new and
innovative with its Olympic theme but falling
flat.
I know when I think of the Olympics I think
of the patriotic and stirring music ABC uses.
You know how it goes.
W1 tere was the rolling, thundering drum J
the triumphant trumpets?
Where was the Daaah, daaah, da-daaaJnJ
daaah daaah. daaah daaah dada, dadada )
dadada da daaah.
Where was the punch that gave the Ohm |
its mystique? It’s a great event, but ABCdm
it so much better. You may say the Olympicsj
stand on its own, but that’s not entirelytrue.1
There must be a focus, a structure to the [
presentation of events, and this is missing. I
But hack to business.
Q. Where was Jim McKay — Olympic
annoucer extrordinaire?
A. On the other network, HA HA.
1 le had been doing the Olympics since! J
child dreaming of Olga and Nadia. Without!
the games don’t seem the same.
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features on the athletes? I know, 1 know.ueJ
really tired of these altera while but whent-J
gone we whine.
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accept the new style.
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host, but the aura of ABC still hauntsthetey
and can be unsettling.
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the network style good or bad. Still, NBCcM
have the style that the other networkhas.Fcd
time to come, the ABC idea of what the
Olympics are will overshadow NBC’steleci I
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the Olympic Games.
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from dive accident
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Call
him irresponsible. Call him a perfec
tionist. Call him reckless if you must.
But first, somebody call Greg
Louganis an ambulance.
That sentiment, at least one
hopes, followed the shock wave
Monday night that rippled through
the Chamshil Indoor Swimming
Pool in Seoul as Louganis, arguably
the finest diver ever, thunked the
back of his head on the 3-meter
springboard laying out of a reverse
2 1 /2-somersault.
So how is he?
“Greg suffered a scalp laceration,”
Dr. James Puffer, head physician for
the U.S. Olympic team said.
“After making sure he was neuro-
logically intact and had not suffered
a concussion, I temporarily sutured
the laceration so he could complete
his final tw'o dives.”
Five stitches. Yeah, but how is he
really?
How is he going to be Tuesday,
defending the first of his two gold
medals from Los Angeles?
“He’s in very good condition. I
fully anticipate he’ll be able to com
pete ... without difficulty.”
Believe it. Louganis did it once al
ready.
He was in first after eight rounds
in Monday night’s preliminaries
when he struck disaster — horizon
tal, no less. Heroically, perhaps even
reflexively, he tried to finish the dive
vertical, struggling to get his hands
to break the plane of the water be
fore his head.
The judges gave Louganis 6.3. He
tumbled into fourth.
“It had to be a very unsettling ex
perience. I mean, the one thing that
you don’t want to do in competitive
diving is hit the board. Particularly
with your head,” said Vince Pan-
zano, one of the team’s two coaches.
“He’s never done it before, to my
knowledge. Not even in practice. ...
You should ideally be 2Vi to 3 feet
from away from the board when you
pass it. On that particular dive, Greg
always seems to be closer to the
board than he should be.
“There’s no particular reason for
it,”Panzano added. “Judges don’t
give higher scores because a diver is
closer to the board.”
Louganis returned a half-hour
later, his black hair slicked back
OSU’s Jones: A&M
helped by weeks ol
(even the splash of gray at his
temples) and grinned irrepressibly
at those samejudges through a short
delay.
The ovation was thunderous.
“You got it Lugo,” someone
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Louganis proceeded to rip a re
verse 1 Vi-somersault with 3 Vi twists.
See Louganis, page 14
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -
Hurricane Gilbert caused Texas
A&M to go three weeks without
playing, but that means the Ag
gies will be fresh and healthy for
Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Cowboy Coach Pat Jones said
Monday.
“I don’t see how the postpone
ment with Alabama can have any
real effect,” Jones said at his
weekly luncheon for sports writ
ers and sportscasters. “If any
thing, it will allow them to he as
healthy as they can be. And with
our open date, we’re as healthy as
we can be.”
No. 18 Oklahoma State, 1-0,
opened its season two weeks ago
with a 52-20 victory over Miami
of Ohio. Texas A&M, 0-2, lost the
Kickoff Classic to Nebraska, then
lost 27-0 to Louisiana State one
week later.
After an open Hate, the Aggies
were scheduled to host Alabama
Saturday in College Station, but
Alabama Coach Bill Curry post
poned the game because of un
certain weather conditions sur
rounding Hurricane Gilbert.
Although Texas A&M Coach
Jackie Sherrill hinted that Ala
bama wanted to rest its injured
quarterback, Jones said the Ag
gies likewise were able to restore
two key players to their lineup.
"With the cancellation of
ball game, now they are at
strength for the first timet
midway through the \ebr
game,” Jones said.
The Aggies lost kick rei
specialist and receiver RodH.
with a shoulder injun andi
ning back Darren Lewis, wl
Jones called “their most talei
back,” against the Huskers.
“They are two guys uho
quality players,” Jt)nessaid.Tlu|
will have an impact on thcmdl
lensiN <ls l’ii s< imuTwise ii
see the l>esi they’ve got."
But Jones said he'll probattl
have to wait until SaturdaytottiI
Jones said he was countingoil
spotting some trends intheA:!
gies’ offense from the film |
their Alabama game film.
“The one thing that notplq
ing the game down there did w|
leave us in the dark asfarasm
they might tend to do i]l:I
terback-wise, or whether iM
have made any. shifts in tbd
overall offensive thin king,” Jot*
said.
Texas A&M has used thro]
quarterback — Bucky Richatci
son, Lance Pavlas and Chris ft
good — in its two games thisveai
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Biondi lowers sights; wins heal
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —Matt
Biondi, lowering his sights from
seven gold to seven medals, won his
qualifying heat Tuesday in the 100-
meter butterfly one day after Janet
Evans gave America its first victory
at the Seoul Olympics.
While Evans won the 400-meter
individual medley gold on Monday,
Biondi had to settle for bronze in the
200-meter freestyle as his quest to
equal Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals
in 1972 ended in his first race.
“The Mark Spitz days are over,”
Biondi said.
Another Olympic assault also was
in jeopardy as Carl Lewis was close
to losing his spot on U.S. relay team.
That would cost him a chance to win
four gold medals, as he did four
years ago in Los Angeles. Sprint-re
lay coach Russ Rogers said Monday
that Lewis would be dropped from
the team if he continued his disrup
tive behavior.
Lewis has argued loudly with his
coaches over the role of his personal
adviser, who has been banned from
practices, and Rogers said:
“He’s at the end of his rope. The
only thing he can do now is hang
himself.”
A little Romanian gymnast, mean
while, was evoking memories of a
time 12 years ago, when a country
woman no bigger than her capti
vated the world by becoming the
original perfect 10. That was Nadia
Comaneci; this was 4-foot-6 Daniela
Silivas, who had 10s in the uneven
bars and floor exercise during wom
en’s team competition.
The American gymnasts, in
fourth place after compulsories,
were done in by their own mistakes
and an East German protest. They
still had a shot at bronze.
In diving, U.S. gold medal favor
ite Greg Louganis had a close brush
with a board, but escaped serious in
jury. Leading the qualifying for the
springboard and going for a second
consecutive Olympic sweep, Louga
nis hit his head while attempting a
reverse 2 , /2-sommersault in his ninth
of 11 dives.
He got out of the water without
help, rubbed the top of his head and
smiled. He scored a 6.3.
He came back about a half-hour
later, five stitches in his head!
mugged for the crowd bti-J
launching himself into a nearl
feet reverse 1 '/a-sommersault I
3'/2 twists. It earned 87.12 p |
the highest score of the preliiil
round, and he made Tuesday’s!
easily, where the scores startfr«l
Alter two days of medal eiei
the Soviet Union led with six,t*l
them gold. The United SlatesI
China, with one gold apiece,'I
t ied for second with four medals J
Evans captured the women’s!
meter individual medley swimrl
event by nearly two seconds!
world champion Noemi Lung oil
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