Olympic Spirit

This is a documentary about the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, USA. There are quite a few of these documentaries produced for the Olympics each time and they tend to be long, boring affairs. By comparison, this is like a slick exciting emotional commercial for the Games. It helps that it's no more than thirty minutes. The music is very era specific. I do wonder if they could have tried the new IMAX format. I remember old IMAX movies from this era and this feels a lot like those shorts. The footage has a lot of action right next to the athletes. All anybody ever talk about with this Olympic is the USA hockey team and this closes with them especially the game against the Soviets. This is a great commercial for the Olympics and Coca-Cola.