Lausanne, Aug 29 (Ians) The Munich Olympics of 1972 is a story of triumphs and tragedy as the Olympic Games were; for the first time disrupted, by a terrorist attack in which 11 members of the Israeli contingent, five terrorists and a West German policeman were killed.
On the 50th anniversary of the Olympic Games Munich 1972, which were held from August 26-September 11, the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) has released a documentary series in which some of the participants revisit the venues of Munich 1972 to relive the stories of their triumphs and the tragedy.
Titled “72 – A Gathering of Champions”, the emotive four-part series produced by the Olympic Channel and directed by Emmy-award winner Jonathan Hock, revisits the event with the Olympians who experienced first-hand both personal triumphs and unimaginable tragedy, as they return to Munich.
Combining remarkable restored film footage and new personal accounts from the athletes whose lives were deeply touched by the events of this time,...
On the 50th anniversary of the Olympic Games Munich 1972, which were held from August 26-September 11, the International Olympic Committee (Ioc) has released a documentary series in which some of the participants revisit the venues of Munich 1972 to relive the stories of their triumphs and the tragedy.
Titled “72 – A Gathering of Champions”, the emotive four-part series produced by the Olympic Channel and directed by Emmy-award winner Jonathan Hock, revisits the event with the Olympians who experienced first-hand both personal triumphs and unimaginable tragedy, as they return to Munich.
Combining remarkable restored film footage and new personal accounts from the athletes whose lives were deeply touched by the events of this time,...
- 8/29/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
YouTube has unveiled the trailer for its latest documentary series chronicling what it takes to be an elite women’s gymnast -- from the triumphs to the abuses that have come to be associated with the sport in recent years.
Dubbed Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics, the six-part series was produced by Main Event Media, All3Media America, and Five All in the Fifth Entertainment, and marks a partnership between YouTube and Glamour magazine -- on whose channel the series will premiere beginning Sept. 21 at noon Et.
The series will feature 2021 Team USA hopefuls and legends of the sport, including Nadia Comaneci, Laurie Hernandez, Olga Korbut, Katelyn Ohashi, Aly Raisman, and Jordyn Wieber.
Episodes will cover how athletes preserve their passion, maintain focus, and remain fearless in an era of difficulty-dominant scoring. The series also won't shy away from the darker aspects of the sport, including how...
Dubbed Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics, the six-part series was produced by Main Event Media, All3Media America, and Five All in the Fifth Entertainment, and marks a partnership between YouTube and Glamour magazine -- on whose channel the series will premiere beginning Sept. 21 at noon Et.
The series will feature 2021 Team USA hopefuls and legends of the sport, including Nadia Comaneci, Laurie Hernandez, Olga Korbut, Katelyn Ohashi, Aly Raisman, and Jordyn Wieber.
Episodes will cover how athletes preserve their passion, maintain focus, and remain fearless in an era of difficulty-dominant scoring. The series also won't shy away from the darker aspects of the sport, including how...
- 9/9/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut sold off her Olympic medals and multiple trophies for $183,300. Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut Sells Medals The entire sale consisted of seven lots, including two gold and one silver medal from the Munich Olympic games. The single most expensive piece was the team gold, which went for $66,000. A Russian paper reports […]
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- 2/28/2017
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Erwin Chargaff of Genetics
Lisa Leslie(4-time Olympic Baseball Gold Medal Winner) “Iam strong, I’m not tender, my eyeliner is still worn by me.” In the beginning, when girls began taking part in the Olympics, their numbers were very low. But today, women take part in nearly every activity. Also, afew activities were revised so as to suit the fairer sexnetball and softball, variations of basketball and hockey, for example. Let’s take a look at-all these activities, in no particular purchase, by which girls don’t merely engage, but also have created a title for themselves. Baseball Baseball is one particular few activities that both men and women began experimenting the same time. To be correct, women’s basketball were only available in the season 1892 in america, in Johnson University in Ma. Throughout the United States, its popularity spread using this beginning that was simple, and finally all over the globe.
Lisa Leslie(4-time Olympic Baseball Gold Medal Winner) “Iam strong, I’m not tender, my eyeliner is still worn by me.” In the beginning, when girls began taking part in the Olympics, their numbers were very low. But today, women take part in nearly every activity. Also, afew activities were revised so as to suit the fairer sexnetball and softball, variations of basketball and hockey, for example. Let’s take a look at-all these activities, in no particular purchase, by which girls don’t merely engage, but also have created a title for themselves. Baseball Baseball is one particular few activities that both men and women began experimenting the same time. To be correct, women’s basketball were only available in the season 1892 in america, in Johnson University in Ma. Throughout the United States, its popularity spread using this beginning that was simple, and finally all over the globe.
- 4/1/2016
- by toga
- Scott Feinberg
Chicago – She’s conquered television, and now it’s time for the movies. Melissa Rauch – also known as Bernadette on “The Big Bang Theory” – has created a new, uniquely voiced character named Hope Greggory. The character is a third placed, foul-mouthed Olympic gymnast in the new film “The Bronze.”
The film has an one-of-a-kind angle. Hope Greggory goes to the 2004 Olympics out of Amherst, Ohio, with the help of her Dad Stan (Gary Cole) and Coach Pavlek (Christine Abrahamsen). After a showy injury at the Games, she holds on to take the Bronze medal, and gets seemingly lifelong celebrity in her hometown. Fast forward to 2015 – the shine is off the medal, and a new gymnast sensation in town named Maggie (Haley Lu Richardson) is threatening to take Hope’s territory. Hope agrees to coach her, but can lightning strike twice?
Melissa Rauch Goes for the Gold in ‘The Bronze’
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The film has an one-of-a-kind angle. Hope Greggory goes to the 2004 Olympics out of Amherst, Ohio, with the help of her Dad Stan (Gary Cole) and Coach Pavlek (Christine Abrahamsen). After a showy injury at the Games, she holds on to take the Bronze medal, and gets seemingly lifelong celebrity in her hometown. Fast forward to 2015 – the shine is off the medal, and a new gymnast sensation in town named Maggie (Haley Lu Richardson) is threatening to take Hope’s territory. Hope agrees to coach her, but can lightning strike twice?
Melissa Rauch Goes for the Gold in ‘The Bronze’
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- 3/18/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Hard truth: Gymnasts are the most bad-ass athletes. They were no protective garments, they fling themselves around, and they usually incorporate personal style and generally wonderful fashions into their work. This morning a phenomenal video of Lloimincia Hall, an Lsu gymnast, is making the rounds, and it's another example of why gymnasts are some of the premiere bad-asses of our time. Let us learn five major lessons in badassitude from these kickass ladies. 1. Lloimincia Hall teaches us that stank is as powerful on the floor as stamina. This is a woman takes time out from her incredible flipping to let you know she can jive harder to Earth, Wind, and Fire than you can. She is right to do this. 2. Look, McKayla Maroney defies gravity just because. Look. McKayla jumps and elevates for what seems like minutes in the middle of her jump. Incredibly high, incredibly controlled. Color us "impressed,...
- 4/7/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
God, I love people who call out reprehensible social behavior. They're my catnip. At the end of Wednesday night's Survivor, my girl Denise officially ascended to sainthood when she read the increasingly ridiculous Abi-Maria like The Well-Tempered Clavier and called out her nonsense, note for note. It was heaven -- which I feel sort of bad about, because although Abi-Maria is one of the great earsores in Survivor history, she's also so helpless that her idiocy should be lamented more than lambasted. Still, Denise is the Mother Cabrini of Kickassitude, and to her I say, "All hail."
And here are five other issues that mattered from last night's episode, which should really be titled, "Sobby Abi is So Sawwy."
1. Abi's version of "conversation" is always a treat.
I can't say I'm a true converted fan of Lisa Whelchel's because she ends too many of her confessionals with, "You know,...
And here are five other issues that mattered from last night's episode, which should really be titled, "Sobby Abi is So Sawwy."
1. Abi's version of "conversation" is always a treat.
I can't say I'm a true converted fan of Lisa Whelchel's because she ends too many of her confessionals with, "You know,...
- 11/22/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
The first pictures for ITV1's Dancing on Ice's Olympics special have been released. Dancing on Ice Goes Gold will feature a selection of Olympic athletes performing in Lycra and sequins on the ice in front of a live studio audience for a one-off special. [Photo Gallery - Dancing on Ice Goes Gold]
Colin Jackson, 'mother of gymnastics' Olga Korbut, Tessa Sanderson, Pippa Wilson, Jamie Baulch, Steve Williams (more)...
Colin Jackson, 'mother of gymnastics' Olga Korbut, Tessa Sanderson, Pippa Wilson, Jamie Baulch, Steve Williams (more)...
- 7/20/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Christine Bleakley found filming 'Dancing On Ice Goes Gold' ''really exciting''. The skating contest returns for a one-off special in honour of the Olympic Games on Sunday (22.07.12) featuring sporting legends and the 33-year-old presenter was impressed by all the contestants. She said: ''They were all really good and they went into this programme wanting to do well. Both Jayne Torvill and I said that if they were on the series, they would do brilliantly. ''It was a great show to film. I love the Olympics, so to meet the contestants was really exciting. ''I loved meeting Olga Korbut. I love gymnastics and her...
- 7/17/2012
- Virgin Media - TV
"Make a film based on the Olympics," is your only instruction. What would You do?
Four celebrated British filmmakers were given this very challenge and have put their distinctive marks on a stunning quartet of short films, which made their debut this weekend at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Asif Kapadia's Odyssey traces London's journey from 2005 to 2012
Noel Clarke took his audience into an urban setting to show music, expression and the physical inspiration provided by sport, Mike Leigh opted for a family tale unmistakably Mike Leigh-esque, and Lynne Ramsay told the tale of a swimming pioneer, with classical and mythical allusion.
The fourth, Senna director Asif Kapadia, had less time than the other directors. He received his brief in February, which meant he had only three months to deliver the finished piece.
So he opted to do what he did to stunning effect with his film Senna -...
Four celebrated British filmmakers were given this very challenge and have put their distinctive marks on a stunning quartet of short films, which made their debut this weekend at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Asif Kapadia's Odyssey traces London's journey from 2005 to 2012
Noel Clarke took his audience into an urban setting to show music, expression and the physical inspiration provided by sport, Mike Leigh opted for a family tale unmistakably Mike Leigh-esque, and Lynne Ramsay told the tale of a swimming pioneer, with classical and mythical allusion.
The fourth, Senna director Asif Kapadia, had less time than the other directors. He received his brief in February, which meant he had only three months to deliver the finished piece.
So he opted to do what he did to stunning effect with his film Senna -...
- 6/24/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
Dancing on Ice has released details of its first ever Olympic heroes special Going for Gold. A selection of Olympic sporting heroes will be challenged by Torvill & Dean to tackle ice-dancing for the first time and will be judged by the ITV1 reality show's regular panel of Louie Spence, Katarina Witt and Robin Cousins. Celebrities confirmed to take part in the live one-off special include former 110m hurdler Colin Jackson, gymnast Olga Korbut and javelin star Tessa Sanderson. Yngling gold medal winner Pippa Wilson, 400m runner Jamie Baulch, coxless rower Steve Williams (more)...
- 3/19/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Actress Meryl Streep has denied rumours she used a body double in new movie Mamma Mia! - insisting she performed the "splits" for real.
In one scene the star is seen bouncing on a bed before flinging her legs out in midair to perform the notoriously tricky manoeuvre.
But Streep, 59, insists that she didn't need any help.
She says, "They ask - was there a body double? Yeah, right! Or was it CGI? Of course! They grafted my face onto (Olympic gymnast) Olga Korbut's body!
"I just did the splits on instinct. That's what always happens with my acting."...
In one scene the star is seen bouncing on a bed before flinging her legs out in midair to perform the notoriously tricky manoeuvre.
But Streep, 59, insists that she didn't need any help.
She says, "They ask - was there a body double? Yeah, right! Or was it CGI? Of course! They grafted my face onto (Olympic gymnast) Olga Korbut's body!
"I just did the splits on instinct. That's what always happens with my acting."...
- 7/2/2008
- WENN
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