Black. Title: NBC AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES PUSHING THE LIMITS. On the Field
Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes performing, competing, celebrating, and being awarded medals at past Olympic games.
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- Dave Gabel (voiceover):
- People are going to suddenly hear names of athletes that have, they've never heard of in their lives, but this person is a five-time gold medalist all of a sudden...
Interior – Room. Close Shot – Dave Gabel. Title: Dave Gabel Coordinating Producer NBCOlympics.com
- Dave Gabel (continued):
- whom- who is the best athlete in the world at their sport.
Intercut to Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes crying at emotional moments during the Olympics, athletes kneeling and kissing the ground, and a weightlifter lifting a barbell.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover):
- Who are these people? Ninety-nine out of a hundred are incredibly human, and like you and me, they aren't making lots of money out of this. They're doing it 'cause they love their sport. And a big...
Interior – Room. Medium Close Shot – Dave Gabel.
- Dave Gabel (continued):
- objective of our site is to, just to help introduce these athletes to people and- and put a...
Exterior - Track - Day. Medium Shot – A runner at the Olympics. Camera pans right as she runs forward, exhausted, and waves her arms.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover) (continued):
- face to the name.
Interior – Room – Day. Close Shot – Joe Battaglia. Title: Joe Battaglia Track & Field and Softball Producer – NBCOlympics.com
- Joe Battaglia:
- We've got an Olympic Insider Project...
Intercut to Extreme Close Shot – A computer monitor screen, displaying images of Olympic athletes and their profiles from the NBCOlympics.com website.
- Joe Battaglia (voiceover) (continued):
- working with different athletes. They have little flip cameras where they're taping behind the scenes.
Medium Close Shot – Joe Battaglia.
- Joe Battaglia:
- One of the, uh, more rewarding experiences I've had with an athlete is working...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of a computer monitor screen, displaying images of Shannon Rowbury's Web page on the NBCOlympics.com Website, and Shannon Rowbury video-conferenced on-screen.
- Joe Battaglia (voiceover) (continued):
- with Shannon Rowbury. She's, uh, one of our athletes with the, uh, with the flip cam.
Medium Close Shot – Joe Battaglia.
- Joe Battaglia:
- She broke her leg when she was five years old...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of a computer monitor screen, displaying images of photos from Shannon Rowbury's Web page on the NBCOlympics.com Website, and motion video of Shannon Rowbury smiling.
- Joe Battaglia (voiceover) (continued):
- and her grandmother got her into Irish step dancing. Her ten years competing as a Irish step dancer built up the fast twitch muscles that have helped her as a runner. She's now one of the fastest American runners ever.
Interior – Room. Close Shot – Dave Gabel.
- Dave Gabel:
- A lot of people think that...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes crying, hugging, and celebrating at emotional Olympic moments.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover) (continued):
- NBC during the Olympics just, you know, tugs on your heartstrings and tells a dramatic story, but, we don't make 'em up. The athlete's mom drove 'em...
Close Shot – Dave Gabel.
- Dave Gabel (continued):
- two hours every day to practice in the morning and pick them up at night, and- and- and they're thanking their mom for that, and...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of a computer monitor screen, displaying images of childhood photos of Olympic athletes on the NBCOlympics.com Website.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover) (continued):
- it's real. Their mom sends us the- the home photo album, and all of a sudden you've got a childhood photo gallery. And now you kind of relate to her a little bit more. She's a human being now.
Medium Close Shot – Dave Gabel.
- Dave Gabel:
- And that's a big fundamental component...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes in moments of triumph.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover) (continued):
- to NBC's presentation of the Olympics.
Medium Close Shot – Dave Gabel.
- Dave Gabel:
- It's very cool to- to sort of...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes celebrating and wearing medals.
- Dave Gabel (voiceover) (continued):
- think that my livelihood is just to be involved with these athletes and their purpose.
Interior – Room – Day. Medium Close Shot – Joe Battaglia. He pinches his hand.
- Joe Battaglia:
- I pinch myself, you know...
Montage of Shots of the Olympic ceremonies, the Olympic rings lit with fire, fireworks bursting from an Olympic Stadium, and Olympic flags waving with the wind.
- Joe Battaglia (voiceover) (continued):
- doing this on- on such a grand scale. It's really unbelievable.
Black. Title: (Olympic Logo) (GE logo) Beijing 2008. WORLDWIDE PARTNER. Fade Out to Black.
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