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A plea to the climate gods was answered on Day 11 of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Organizers, athletes and spectators hoped the wild winds – which postponed greater than a dozen occasions – would subside. On February 23, the wind was lastly calmer. This allowed the 90-meter ski bounce occasion to happen, the place Flying Finn Matti Nykanen flew to his second gold medal of the Video games. It was additionally the primary time in Olympic historical past {that a} ski jumper gained two golds on the similar Video games. Different highlights of the occasion had been Canada’s Horst Bulau ending seventh (one of the best end ever for a Canadian athlete within the occasion) and Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards efficiently touchdown a bounce. Some officers argued it was too harmful for Edwards to compete that day, because the minor athlete was a relative newcomer to the game. Nonetheless, he proved them improper to a roar of approval from a crowd of 80,000 at Canada Olympic Park.
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For Canadians, Day 11 of the Video games (which celebrated a thirty fifth anniversary this month) additionally introduced success on the ice. Rob McCall and Tracy Wilson wowed a Saddledome crowd and judges, successful a bronze medal in ice dance.
The demonstration sport of brief observe pace skating was additionally a profitable one for Canada. Sylvie Daigle gained gold within the 1500 meter race. Within the 500-meter dash, silver was awarded to Canada’s Mario Vincent.
In one other demonstration sport, freestyle snowboarding, Canadians gained gold and bronze in aerial images. Gold medalist Jean-Marc Rozon was a pioneer within the sport and the chief/founding father of the “Quebec Air Power” – a gaggle of freestyle skiers who dazzled the world and dominated the freestyle World Cup circuit within the Eighties. Of his efficiency, Rozon famous, “I instructed myself: simply take into consideration the bounce and do it.”
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Additionally on Day 11 of the Video games:
- The police responded to complaints about unlawful ticket scalping. A Calgary man has been charged after making an attempt to promote 36 tickets to an undercover officer; the officer bought six tickets with a face worth of $280 for $925. And a Los Angeles man was charged with promoting two $30 tickets to an undercover officer for $100 outdoors the Saddledome.
- Calgary-based Solar Ice has reaped the rewards of all the eye given to its winter jackets. As a Winter Video games provider, quite a few firms organized for Solar Ice jackets with a brand, leading to an additional $2.5 million in gross sales. It has turned out 21,000 Olympic outfits within the earlier two years, together with clothes for 10,000 volunteers and athletes. Solar Ice supplied the Western-themed outfits athletes wore for the opening and shutting ceremonies and the medal ceremony outfits without spending a dime.
- There was a crackdown on unlawful Olympic pins on Day 11. Officers from the Calgary Sheriff’s Workplace raided eight shops (together with seven San Francisco present retailers) to confiscate pins infringing on Olympic logos.
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We need to hear your tales from the 1988 Winter Olympics. Have you ever attended any occasions? Tell us reply@calgaryherald.com.
To learn extra in regards to the 1988 Winter Olympics, try:
35 unforgettable images from 35 years in the past: Calgary welcomed the world to the 1988 Winter Olympics
35 years later, Calgary’s Olympic Winter Video games legacy lives on, however is beginning to present its age
Olympic Rewind Day One: successes and secrets and techniques of Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics
Olympic Rewind Day Two: A fin flies, Jansen falls and Eddie soars — ‘Now I am an Olympian’
Olympic Rewind Day Three: Let the pin buying and selling start
Olympic Rewind Day 4: Scalpers say enterprise is up whereas intercourse employees see a slowdown
Olympic Rewind Day 5: Video games turn into the most important bash within the metropolis’s historical past
Olympic Rewind Day Six: Loud Crowds Develop; Orser sparkles; males’s hockey disappoints
Olympic Rewind Day Seven: Canada will get its first medal
Examine for extra Olympic Rewind recollections all through the month.
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