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Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; [1] December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol [1] (/ ˈ ɛ b ər s ɒ l /; born July 28, 1947) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. [2] He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large-scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts.
Ahead of the 1972 Olympics, the West German Olympic Organizing Committee aimed to discard Germany's military image, wary of the propaganda portrayed by the 1936 Summer Olympics under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. [18] The IOC President at the time, Avery Brundage, had been involved in the 1936 Olympics and had lived through the experience of ...
Pre's Rock, a memorial to Steve Prefontaine who died after finishing 4th in the 1972 Olympic 5000 m Memorial to Bronisław Malinowski, who died one year after winning an Olympic gold medal Plaque commemorating Ryan Shay, who died while running the 2008 United States Olympic trials marathon. A number of athletics competitors have died during ...
NBC employed him as a critic and teacher of its sports announcers. In 1988, Glickman returned to television on NBC as a play-by-play replacement on its NFL telecasts while protégé Marv Albert was in Seoul covering the Olympics. He retired from broadcasting in December 1992, aged 74.
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968.
Olympic Channel (branded as Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA) was an American pay television sports channel owned by the NBC Olympics, a joint venture between NBC Sports and the United States Olympic Committee. It was dedicated to Olympic sports, and was a franchise of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Channel operation.