Scott Hamilton performing to Spike Jones’s Cocktails For Two.
Simone Biles wins four gold medals in 2016.
1980: Jimmy Carter announces the US boycott of the Moscow games.
1996: Kerri Strug performs a near-perfect vault to clinch the team gymnastics gold for the U.S.A., despite having severely sprained her ankle on her previous attempt. Coach Béla Károlyi carries her to the award podium.
When the music cut out during their routine, Soviet figure skaters Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev kept skating in silence, winning a standing ovation and a gold medal.
The Miracle on Ice, 1980.
Nadia Comăneci scores a perfect 10 in 1976, at the Montreal Olympics.
Eddy the Eagle (real name Michael David Edwards), the British plasterer-turned-ski jumper, who was hopelessly outclassed at the 1988 Winter Games and finished dead last in both of his events – but still… he competed and finished. Citius, Altius, Fortius indeed!!
The Jamaican Bobsled team, 1988 Winter Olympics - Despite the Cool Runnings film (“about 1% accurate”), they really were quite awful and never came close to placing.
When that disabled Olympic archer lit the cauldron with a flaming arrow, Barcelona 1992
TV characters you wish you could have played as an actor
Hank Kimball, Green Acres
Don Draper, Mad Men
Jake Hanson, Melrose Place
Wilson, Home Improvement
I’ve been told that I have a face for radio, so a role where only my eyes and the top half of my head would ever be seen sounds like it was actually written for me.
