We have quotage from NBC’s networks for Day 12 of the Winter Olympics. As usual, we begin with the quotes and notes from Universal Sports.
UNIVERSAL SPORTS AT THE VANCOUVER GAMES:NEWS, NOTES AND QUOTES FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010Tuesday, February 23, 2010 — On the twelfth day of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Universal Sports at the Vancouver Games continues its five-hour programming block, starting at 10 a.m. ET and continuing daily until the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, February 28.Vancouver Olympic News Center and Morning Buzz:News Alerts:· The United States has 26 medals, a record for total medals won by Team USA on foreign soil. Team USA collected 25 medals at the 2006 Torino (Italy) Games.· The U.S. will face Canada in the women’s Ice Hockey final, to be contested Thursday, Feb. 25. Canada has outscored its opponents 46-2 in Vancouver; the Americans have a 40-2 margin.Tom Steitz, former U.S. Nordic Combined Team Coach (on the speed of the competitors in the Men’s Ski Jumping Team Event): “They are going faster than the standard stock Chevy muscle Corvette.”Steitz: (on proposed rule changes in ski jumping) “Austria is leading this charge. They develop big, strong powerful ski jumpers, while Switzerland has smaller, more nimble, gymnastic-type athletes. Austrian ski jumpers are like a big offensive line (in football), and they want to change the rules to favor their type of athlete.”Don Duguid, NBC Curling analyst: “The excitement at the curling venue has been unbelievable…Canada has the ‘last rock’ (throughout the playoffs, and that’s a huge advantage.”Features:Call of the Day: An Austrian TV network’s call of the Men’s Ski Jumping Team event on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, stumped everyone on the set today.Terry Gannon (on his prediction): “I thought it sounded like (Arnold) Schwarzenegger…I was just off.”Summer Sanders, Universal Sports’ Whistler sideline reporter, gets a ‘taste of Vancouver,’ going on a progressive dinner through five of Vancouver’s top restaurants with her husband, former U.S. Ski Team member and Olympian, Erik Schlopy. Vancouver sideline reporter Stacey Dales, visits the Olympic Flame and talks with visitors on the street about the infamous “fence,” and even helps snap a few photos for fans. Peter Alexander checks out Avalanche Rescue Dogs, volunteering to get buried in the snow and experience firsthand what it feels like to await a rescue.Today Show weekend anchor Lester Holt spends some time with Dr. Paul Doherty and learns more about the physics behind aerial jumping, where movements in with the arms and legs lead to incredible twists and flips in the air.Universal Sports reporter Kenan Harkin goes behind the scenes to the hottest club in town—Club Budweiser, where he runs into Vernon Davis (tight end for the San Francisco 49ers), Team USA’s Heather McPhie (women’s aerialist) and Olympic Snowboard Cross Gold Medalist Seth Wescott, and challenges fellow Universal Sports Freestyle Analyst Jeremy Bloom to a ‘dance-off.’Nordic athlete Johnny Spillane shared home video from the team’s return to the U.S. Ski Team’s Center for Excellence in Park City, Utah, for extra practice this week. Spillane’s footage included in-flight scenes aboard the private plane they were loaned to make the trip, and featured teammates including Billy Demong, gym training, and an elementary school visit.MEET THE OLYMPIC PRESS:Alan Abrahamson, NBC Olympics and Universal Sports reporter (on great competition versus outrageous costumes): “Ice dancing is at the same time the best and silliest sport at the Olympics”Vicki Michaelis, USA Today reporter (on a higher U.S. medal count): “The U.S. has centralized more of their training on a lot of sports, and its obviously helping. There are no medals in sliding and only three in long track (
speed skating), but I give props to the skiers and snowboarders.”On whether Lindsey Vonn’s photo shoot for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition will help or hurt her career, or negatively impact the sport of Alpine skiing:Abrahamson: “It helps her because she needs to go from Alpine skiing, a niche sport, to Madison Avenue pitch woman.”Michaelis: But it’s bad for sports…The more we have to promote women in swimsuits, the less we appreciate what they do on the slopes. Would men benefit from the same thing? Absolutely. But we, as a society, think women still have to do this (pose in magazines in bathing suits).”Thumbs up/Thumbs down segment:Michaelis: “Thumbs up to Joannie Rochette (skating tonight while mourning her mother’s death Saturday). To see her out there tonight is going to be a touching moment for everyone.”Brian Cazeneuve, Sports Illustrated reporter: “Thumbs up to the Canadian and American women’s hockey teams. This is the best rivalry in the Olympics.”Jimmy Roberts, NBC Olympics reporter and host of “Meet the Olympic Press”: “Thumbs up to (Canadian Ice Dancing Gold Medalists) Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and their enthusiasm during “O Canada.” When people stand on the top of the podium and lose it to the national anthem, it’s a great moment.”… and, the gold medal for the day goes to Alan Abrahamson, to cease his complaining.VANCOUVER REVIEW/PREVIEW:Lindsey Soto talks with former U.S. Nordic Combined Coach Tom Steitz.Steitz (on Nordic ski jumpers’ fearlessness) “Something isn’t wired right.”Steitz (on the outlook for the U.S. Nordic combined team in the team event phase of Olympic competition): “There is a lot of anticipation… The Nordic combined (community) spans the globe, and there are a lot of fans for Team USA. Everyone is as nervous as they can be. (But optimism for success is based on) the experience of the team: Todd Lodwick, Johnny Spillane, Bill Demong. Between those three, we have 12 Olympics (appearances, including five by Lodwick).”Johnny Spillane, 2010 Olympic Nordic Combined Individual Silver Medalist (with Universal Sports Whistler reporter Summer Sanders): “The nice thing is we don’t feel we have to perform some kind of miracle to (win a medal in the team phase).”Steitz (on the team’s return to Park City for training mid-Games): “Really a great call by the coaches and the athletes. The Olympics are about competing not about training. They were smart to find a donor and get on a private plane. I really think this is a stroke of genius (training in Park City at a much higher altitude).”Spillane (narrating with a video cam at the Salt Lake City airport): “We parked our plane next to Michael Jordan’s plane. Ours’ (a Dassault Falcon 900) is a little nicer.”Steitz (on Team USA’s goal to win the overall medal count in Vancouver): “You can’t really do that without making a serious run at the Nordic family (of events). If we are going to be considered a leader in the overall medal count we need to take Nordic combined, and the rest of the Nordic sports, seriously.”Figure Skating Review/Preview:After the Ice Dancing free dance, Canadian couple Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are the champions, marking the first time a team from North American has won the gold medal. American couple Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the silver medal, defending world champions Oksana Domnina and Maksim Shabalin became the bronze medalists and Americans Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto finished in fourth place.Host Terry Gannon (on today’s studio guests): “You’ve got to be a legend and a gold medalist to get on this show today (Peggy Fleming, Dick Button and Katarina Witt).”On the conclusion of the Ice Dancing Event:Peter Carruthers, 1984 Olympic Pairs Figure Skating Silver Medalist (on Canadian ice dancing Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir in the free dance): “It reminded me of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall—the love between a man and a woman. That’s what it should be; that’s what it should feel like. It was a new level of ice dancing we’ve never seen before.”Guest Peggy Fleming, 1968 Olympic Lad
ies’ Gold Medalist (on Moir and Virtue): “It was just magical, a perfect blend (of skating and artistry). They really put ice dancing back on the map…Olympic pressure is different from any other championship.”Dick Button, 1948 & 1952 Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist: “I consider myself blessed when I see an iconic performance. I didn’t see one. I saw two (by both Virtue/Moir and Davis/White). All I love in skating is when it reaches my heart and, boy, did it reach my heart.”Kristi Yamaguchi, 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist (on American ice dancers Merle Davis and Charlie White winning the silver medal): “It was still a spirited performance. Again, for their age and to be here at their first Olympics and win a silver medal, it’s unbelievable. These two could not have skated any better and certainly should be proud of what this experience has meant to them.”Carruthers (on the performance by American ice dancers Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, fourth overall after winning silver at the 2006 Torino Games): “It is not as though they went backward (since Torino). It’s that the others (Virtue/Moir and Davis/White) pulled ahead so much faster.”Yamaguchi: “I thought the speed (Belbin and Agosto) had (in the free dance) was much faster than at U.S. Nationals a month ago.”Yamaguchi (on Virtue and Moir): “Absolutely in that class (of British Ice Dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and their 1984 Olympic Gold Medal performance). (But) different styles. And I think they’re going to blaze their own trail.”Carruthers (on U.S. Olympic ice dancers Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates, who were 11th overall): “The most important thing for these two is what they have to shoot for now. That will light a fire under these guys as they push themselves to move forward to the next Olympics.”On the upcoming Ladies Short Program tonight:Paul Wylie, 1992 Olympic Figure Skating Silver Medalist: (on U.S. ladies skaters Rachael Flatt and Mirai Nagasu‘s chances in ladies’ figure skating competition): “She’s (Flatt) capable of gathering points along the way like Evan Lysacek…Nagasu may lose points again for under-rotated jumps, like she did at the U.S. Championships.”Wylie (on Yu-Na Kim): “There’s something special about her personality and the way that she commands the audience. There’s quite a rivalry between the Japanese and the Korean figure skaters.”Fleming (on Flatt and Nagasu): “I think they could do quite well. Rachael knows how to focus. And she is very consistent. You can count on her to give a good performance. She’s a very solid competitor. Good technique. I don’t think (Olympic intensity) is going to faze her.”Studio guest Katarina Witt, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist for East Germany (on Flatt, after watching her practice in Vancouver): “She reminded me a little bit of a young Elaine Zayak (a former U.S. rival of Witt’s and 1982 World Champion)…It made me smile when she went out and did her program. She had a good time.”Carruthers (on Flatt’s medal chances): “I think she’s got the head to do this. It’s kind of set up for the occasion.”Picks to win the ladies short program tonight:Carruthers: Yu-Na Kim, South KoreaYamaguchi: Miki Ando, JapanGannon: Yu-Na Kim, South KoreaMiscellaneous:Fleming (on what happened after she was involved in an auto accident while traveling in the motorcade of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden): “The Vice President travels with a doctor. They came into the car before we were allowed to get out. Then they took us to the hospital for a couple of hours. (The accident) was a very big surprise.”Fleming (on the difference in the Olympics now versus 1968 when she won the gold medal): “The media and sponsorships and crowds have gotten a lot bigger.”Button (on figure skating costumes): “Some of them are just awful. I don’t get it, what are people thinking in this sport? I’m against absurdity in costumes.”Witt (on winning Olympic gold at age 18 in 1984): “I feel like I was such a girl. They are so much more polished today.” (On winning gold again in 1988) “Going into Calgary, I really had lots of pressure. I really wanted that second medal. I wanted to be in the history books.”Terry Gannon reveals Peggy Fleming’s nickname among Austrians during her Olympic debut in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1964: “Snowflake.”SCHEDULE FOR UNIVERSAL SPORTS NETWORK – WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 2010:10 –11:30 AM Vancouver Olympic News Center and Morning Buzz11:30 AM – 12 PM Behind the Games12 – 12:30 PM Meet The Olympic Press1: 30 – 2 PM Vancouver Review/Preview2 – 3 PM Figure Skating Review/PreviewFUN QUOTES OF THE DAY:Tom Steitz (on the Norwegian skier Petter Northug Jr. skiing the last lap in the men’s team sprint) “He passes the German (Axel Teichmann) like the guy is stuck in the toll lane…”Dick Button (on today’s skaters trying to duplicate the famous spins and leg positions performed by former Swiss skater Denise Biellmann (skater lifting leg to the side or above their head): “I think its one of the most atrocious moves, makes me think of a turkey leg at Thanksgiving.”Witt (on Universal Sports figure skating analyst Kristi Yamaguchi): “I loved always being with Kristi. We had such a good time on tour (with Stars On Ice). She always helped me with my hair.”Yamaguchi: “I was Katarina’s ‘hair stylist’.”
To the quotage from the daytime coverage on NBC and various other networks.
DAY 12 DAYTIME HIGHLIGHTS OF NBC WINTER OLYMPICS COVERAGE
“Can’t wait to see those headlines in Amsterdam tomorrow.”- NBC’s Al Michaels on the Netherland’s Sven Kramer being disqualified from the 10,000m
“He’s going to have to pull a Ryan Miller.”- NBC’s Eddie Olczyk on Switzerland’s Goalie Jonas Hiller going up against Team USA
VANCOUVER - February 23, 2010 - Daytime coverage of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games continued today on NBC and USA Network. On NBC, live coverage included the men’s speed skating 10,000m. Also in daytime, women’s ski cross competition and Nordic combined team K125 competition. USA Network featured live coverage of the first men’s hockey elimination round game between Switzerland and Belarus. Switzerland won the game 3-2 after a shootout and will face Team USA in the quarterfinal tomorrow.
NBC daytime host Al Michaels sat down with figure skating legends Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming to discuss tonight’s ladies figure skating short program, live in primetime.
Coverage highlights include:
NBC
DOROTHY HAMILL AND PEGGY FLEMING PREVIEWED TONIGHT’S LADIES’ SHORT PROGRAM
FLEMING ON SOUTH KOREA’S KIM YU-NA: “She’s beautiful. She has the combination of the technical elements and the grace and musicality, and that’s what you want in skating. What Evan Lysacek did in his long program was absolute perfection of that blend.”
“She skates with speed, and that’s what makes it even more exciting. She gets up in the air, she has beautiful body lines. She’s got everything.”
HAMILL ON KIM YU-NA: “She’s fantastic. It’s really her competition to lose. She’s reigning world champion. She’s so powerful and her jumps are so high.”
FLEMING ON CANADA’S JOANNIE ROCHETTE AND THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER ON SATURDAY: “It just takes the wind out of you for sure. I don’t know how she’s really going to get out there and skate with that heavy heart that she has and that loss. Sometimes it’s better to just plow through and keep going and she can collapse later.”
HAMILL ON USA’S RACHEL FLATT: “She’s sweet. If she skates well she has a chance at maybe a medal. She’s seventeen. This is her first year really on the big scene. She’s a terrific hard worker and a great athlete and maybe not as much flair as some of the other women. She’s the future, definitely.”
FLEMING ON USA’S MIRAI NAGASU: “Sometimes the innocence gives you an advantage because you can just go out, be free, be yourself. She’s a beautiful skater. She’s got that combination of the technical side and the artistic. She’s very musical, very much like Kim Yu-Na. Very nice style. I thin she’s going to do very well here. This is setting the stage for our sport and their careers.”
MEN’S SPEED SKATING 10,000M GOLD MEDAL FINAL
Dan Hicks (Play-By-Play), Dan Jansen (Analyst), Andrea Kremer (Reporter)
Gold: Lee Seung-Hoon, Korea
Silver: Ivan Skobrev, Russia
Bronze: Bob De Jong, Netherlands
JANSEN ON KRAMER BEING DISQUALIFIED: “The crowd is completely silent here.”
“I’ve seen it once or twice in my career but never with a top skater and certainly never in the Olympic games.”
“Forgot to change lanes. Unbelievable.”
HICKS ON KRAMER: “This will be talked about in the Netherlands forever. How Sven Kramer did not finish in the proper lane and lets the gold medal get away. Wow.”
MICHAELS ON KRAMER’S DISQUALIFICATION: “Can’t wait to see those headlines in Amsterdam tomorrow.”
WOMEN’S FREESTYLE SKIING SKI CROSS COMPETITION
Pat Parnell (Play-By-Play), Todd Harris (Analyst), Tina Dixon (Reporter)
HARRIS ON SKI CROSS: “It’s winter’s wicked ride here.”
MOSELEY ON THE COURSE: “The designer said ‘I wanted to keep the skiers busy every five to six seconds.’”
USA NETWORK
MEN’S HOCKEY ELIMINATION ROUND GAME: SWITZERLAND VS. BELARUS
Bill Patrick (Host), Jeremy Roenick (Studio Analyst), Mike Milbury (Studio Analyst), Mike Emrick (Play-by-Play), Eddie Olczyk (Analyst), Pierre McGuire (Reporter)
Switzerland: 3 Belarus: 2
MILBURY ON TEAM SWITZERLAND: “The Swiss have been a very good team in this tournament, gave the U.S. all they could handle.”
MCGUIRE ON TEAM SWITZERLAND: “There’s no lack of composure on the Swiss bench. They’re a team that’s got a lot of veteran experience.”
OLCZYK ON SWITZERLAND GOALTENDING AGAINST TEAM USA: “Jonas Hiller, he’s going to have to be great. He’s going to have to pull a Ryan Miller.If Jonas Hiller is not great, then the Americans will torch Switzerland.
OLCZYK ON THE TOURNAMENT: “The road for Canada is not easy. They have to win four games in six nights if they want to win gold. For the Americans, it’s a little easier, especially in light of the match ups they could potentially have.”
TEAM USA’S RYAN CALLAHAN ON PLAYING SWITZERLAND IN THE QUARTERFINAL: “Anytime you see a team the second time, you know their tendencies. You know they’re going to be a team that goes straight ahead at you and pressures us a lot. They have a lot of speed. We have to limit our turnovers. I think that was the biggest thing in the first game, we had a lot of turnovers against them and they countered on us pretty well. It’s going to be a tough game.”
WOMEN’S CURLING: USA VS. CHINA
Fred Roggin (Host), Andrew Catalon (Play-by-Play), Colleen Jones (Analyst), Elfi Schlegel (Reporter)
China: 6 USA: 5
SCHLEGEL ON CHINA’S COACH DAN RAFAEL: “He has not spoken to his girls since yesterday. In fact, he even canceled the team meeting. He tells me they don’t have the passion. He’s looking to this team to pioneer the sport in China, but he’s exhausted trying to make them comprehend it all.”
JONES ON TEAM CHINA: “I am so impressed with where they’ve come in such a short period of time. I almost can’t fault anything they do because I just find them inspiring.”
And the primetime coverage.
KIM YU-NA LEADS LADIES FIGURE SKATING AFTER SHORT PROGRAM; TEAM USA CAPTURES FIRST-EVER MEDAL IN NORDIC COMBINED
“That’s why they call her ‘Queen’ Yu-Na.” – NBC’s Tom Hammond on Kim Yu-Na’s short program
VANCOUVER - Feb. 23, 2010 - Kim Yu-Na of Korea set a world record with her score in the ladies figure skating short program and leads the competition ahead of Japan’s Asada Mao. Team USA’s Rachel Flatt and Mirai Nagasu, who are in fifth and sixth place, respectively, will skate in the final group for Thursday night’s ladies free skate.
For the first time ever, Team USA won a medal in Nordic Combined when the men’s team, featuring the quartet of Brett Camerota, Todd Lodwick, Billy Demong, and Johnny Spillane, claimed silver.
The primetime program ended with the Canadian national anthem and medal ceremony for Ashleigh McIvor, who won gold for women’s freestyle ski cross. On CNBC, Canada rebounded from its loss to the US on Sunday by defeating Germany, 8-2, in me n’s hockey. The host nation also defeated China, 10-3, in men’s curling.
FIGURE SKATING:
Play-by-Play: Tom Hammond
Analysts: Scott Hamilton, Sandra Bezic
Reporter: Andrea Joyce, Tracy Wilson
Speed skating analyst Dan Jansen spoke to primetime host Bob Costas in studio about dealing with his sister’s death prior to competing in the 1988 Olympics in light of Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette losing her mother earlier in this week:
On his experience: “For me, it was just an obviously unbelievable timing for the whole situation. But everybody grieves in different ways. I’m assuming that her decision to go ahead and skate was similar to mine in that when this happened to me, I spoke with my family. But we knew that Jane would’ve felt terrible had I decided not to skate, and not go out and try. From the day before, I was certain in my mind and my body that I was going to win gold. Twelve hours later when I got the phone call that she had passed away, and I got on the ice for warm up that night. It was no longer in my body, no longer in my skates. I could not even stay steady on the ice. It was very, very difficult.”
On Rochette dealing with it: “Hopefully even with a couple days of recovery, not that it’s going to go away, but maybe it’s given her body a little time to prepare for tonight.”
More on his experience: “Part of me certainly wanted to go out there and give it a shot. But the other part of me wanted to respect what had just happened and I didn’t know if it was right in my mind -- If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything.”
On what he emailed Rochette: “I told her I don’t know if you can prepare for the emotions you’re going to feel out there. But if you can get through it, there are millions of people supporting you. And most of all, skate with your mother in your heart. And if she does that, she’ll be fine.”
Tracy Wilson broke down how skaters get graded when they land their spins. Scott Hamilton later telestrated how a landing is judged.
Bezic on US’s Mirai Nagasu: “Everything about Mirai’s skating has been pristine here. Her spins are perhaps the best in the competition.”
Bezic on Nagasu’s bloody nose: “She was spinning so fast, she caused a nose bleed.”
Hammond on Japan’s Asada Mao and Korea’s Kim Yu-Na skating one after another: “There should be some fireworks tonight.”
Bezic on Asada: “She says she’s not a short program skater but I think she can change her mind on that one. She has been on fire.”
Hamilton on Asada: “That is as free, and as easy, and as happy I’ve seen her skate in over a year.”
Hammond on Kim Yu-Na’s coach telling her to take in the whole Olympic experience: “That’s easy to say, not so easy to do when you carry the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.”
Hammond on Kim Yu-Na after her performance: “That’s why they call her ‘Queen Yu-Na.”
Bezic on Yu-Na: “To be able to perform like that, after knowing how her main competitor performed, is phenomenal. What a woman.”
Hamilton on Yu-Na: “What a performance. Wow.”
Hammond on Kim Yu-Na’s score of 78.50: “That is the new world record for a short program score in the current scoring system.”
Bezic on Canada’s Joannie Rochette, whose mother died earlier this week: “It’s like she’s found solace on the ice.”
Hamilton after Rochette’s performance: “There’s no bigger stage than the Olympic Games, but the skate and the moment means much more than the competition.”
Hammond after Rochette’s performance: “Such a touching moment.”
Bezic after Rochette’s performance: “What a gift she’s given us.”
Bezic on USA’s Rachel Flatt: “Well she put everything she had into that performance.”
Flatt to Andrea Joyce after her performance: “It was great. I was so excited. I really performed my program and I just had a great time. It was fun.”
Bezic on Japan’s Miki Ando: “She’s another woman with her sights on the podium.”
Hamilton on Miki Ando: “She sent a message that she’s here for a medal as well and she’s not to be ignored.”
Hamilton on the two, young Americans being in the top six after the short program: “That’s gigantic. That’s huge.”
NORDIC COMBINED:
CROSS COUNTRY (Primetime)
Play-by-Play: Al Trautwig
Analyst: Chad Salmela
SKI JUMPING (Daytime)
Play-By-Play: Matt Vasgersian
Analyst: Jeff Hastings
Olympic correspondent Cris Collinsworth on Team USA: “This day has a chance to be historic for the Americans in the Nordic combined. Not only do they have a chance to win a medal. They have the chance to win the whole thing. That’s something no one would have even thought possible as recently as just four years ago.”
Vasgerian on Team USA: “They are favorites in Nordic Combined for the first time in the history of the event.”
“A terrific effort for Team USA off the jump portion of the Nordic Combined.”
Hastings on USA’s Todd Lodwick: “He knows with that jump, he’s just put the Americans right in the driver’s seat.”
Team USA’s Johnny Spillane: “I like where we’re at, but we need to race fast.”
Trautwig: “The United States has never been in the position they find themselves today - to knock an Olympic sized behemoth off their back. A monster that has been growing since 1924, when Nordic Combined began its Olympic run.”
Trautwig on Team USA’s Demong: “Bill Demong has had dreams like this.”
“Bill Demong becomes the first American man to bring to the line a team silver medal.”
Demong to Cris Collinsworth on his skis after the race: “I’m really happy just to be able to hang on, that last kilometer was getting pretty scary.”
Salmela on the US team: “The Americans will be remembered forever as the men to breakthrough.”
ALPINE SKIING:
Play-by-Play: Tim Ryan
Analysts: Todd Brooker
Reporter: Steve Porino
Brooker on Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindel: “This man is probably as fit as anybody else in the race, and he’s not going to give up.”
Ryan on Bode Miller: “He’s off the course and out of the race.”
Ryan on Carlo Janka of Switzerland: “Janka of Switzerland, the 23 year-old who’s had a brilliant season. He’s a rookie in the Olympic Games, and he has a gold medal.”
BOBSLED:
Play-by-Play: Bob Papa
Analyst: John Morgan
Reporter: Lewis Johnson
Morgan on Germany 1: “Sometimes the rough rides are the fastest rides.”
Morgan on Canada’s Kaillie Humphries: “She has been lighting it up here in the practice rounds.”
Morgan on Germany 2 driver, Cathleen Martini: “This is a very magical driver.”
FREESTYLE SKIING:
Play-by-Play: Todd Harris
Analyst: Jonny Moseley
Reporter: Tina Dixon
Harris on McIvor: “The hopes of Canada rest on the shoulders of Ashleigh McIvor, the last woman left in ski cross now.”
Moseley on McIvor’s starts: “She just hits the rhythm perfectly and accelerates.”
Harris during the final race: “Will today be a day where the Canadians take gold?”
Harris on McIvor winning gold: “McIvor now has to manage “The Beast” and the gold is hers. She’s done it. Ashleigh McIvor has won gold.”
Moseley on McIvor: “This race was won at the start. She’s been so good all day.”
Costas on Women’s ski cross: “It was a day of predictable unpredictability at women’s ski cross.”
SPEED SKATING:
Play-by-Play: Dan Hicks
Analyst: Dan Jansen
Reporter: Andrea Kremer
On Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer’s surprising disqualification from the 10,000-meter event:
Hicks: “We have come to expect anything in the Olympics but Sven Kramer’s disqualification in the men’s 10,000 meters has everyone shaking their heads.”
Jansen: “It’s unbelievable this happened at the Olympic Games.”
“I’ve seen this happen at the World Championships or in certain races. I’ve seen skaters forget to change lanes. I’ve never seen a coach actually tell him to get over and change.”
Costas: “If they have a federal witness protection program in the Netherlands, that coach that screwed up, Gerard Kemkers, may soon be applying.”
CNBC, Men’s Ice Hockey Elimination Round Game:
Canada 8 vs. Germany 2
Bill Patrick (Host), Mike Milbury (Studio Analyst), Jeremy Roenick (Studio Analyst), Mike Emrick (Play-By-Play), Eddie Olczyk (Analyst), Joe Micheletti (Reporter)
Roenick on an experienced Team Canada: “You can tell that the leadership and as many captains as they have, they continue to work well together and is probably the key to why this team played so well tonight.”
Roenick on pairing Crosby with Iginla: “It’s really, really important that Sidney Crosby plays with a super sniper like Iginla. Both of them have been very, very good. They’ve both prospered.”
Canada’s Roberto Luongo on the tournament: “It’s really exciting to play here in front of the fans. Obviously it was a big game for us, and I’m sure tomorrow will be a little louder.”
“Definitely is a huge one tomorrow.”
Olczyk on a goal shot straight through the net by Canada’s Shea Weber: “An absolute laser.”
Canada’s Shea Weber on the tournament: “We are still in it. We are very much alive.”
Roenick on Germany: “Driving me insane. I am bored to death. I can’t believe there is a reason why the German team continues to lose hockey games. Their defensive zone coverage is so passive.”
“You are playing with fire if you do not play a physical brand of defense.”
CNBC, Men's Curling:
Canada 10 vs. China 3 (China concedes after 7 ends)
Fred Roggin (Host), Andrew Catalon (Play-By-Play), Colleen Jones (Analyst), Elfi Schlegel (Reporter)
Jones on Canadian curling fans: “Great energy in the building.”
Jones on Canada: “They make it all look so easy.”
Catalon on Canada’s Martin: “Kevin Martin is considered one of the best, if not the best in the world.”
Jones on China shifting their lineup around: “The reality is that the team from China is still so new. You can understand why they would still be flip flopping on positions.”
And that’s it.
