ID help needed - first olympics movie
12-25-12 | 02:54 AM
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ID help needed - first olympics movie
It came out in the '80s or maybe early '90s and was the story about the US team training for the first olympics. One scene that I remember is the discus thrower only having the measurements of the discus and made it too heavy, which helped him when he was in Athens using the normal weight discus.
I thought it was Chariots of Fire but I just re-watched that movie and it isn't it.
I thought it was Chariots of Fire but I just re-watched that movie and it isn't it.
12-25-12 | 09:03 AM
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Re: ID help needed - first olympics movie
The First Olympics Athens 1896
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The inspiring story of a rag-tag team of amateur American athletes that stunned the sports world comes to life in this dramatization of the first modern Olympic games revived in 1896. Veteran Actor Louis Jourdan stars as Baron Pierre du Coubertin, a relentless visionary who sets out to renew the ancient Olympic games after 1500 years. Dr. William Sloane (David Ogden Stiers) is the Princeton professor who pulls together the first American team with 13 unlikely boys and a meager supply of sports equipment. Competing in events that had never been seen in the United States before the Americans went on to Athens and secured the winner's post despite almost insurmountable odds.
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12-25-12 | 09:49 AM
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Re: ID help needed - first olympics movie
American Anthem with Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones.
