The sketch put all of Farley's formidable physicality on display, and ended up being among his most iconic SNL performances. Olympic swimming hero Amy Van Dyken is able to stand again after severing her spine in a horrifying quad bike crash last year. Joanna was an international swimmer who represented Team GB at the Seoul Olympics. Michael Phelps will be part of NBC’s Olympics coverage as a correspondent and swimming commentator, the network announced Monday. The Lillehammer games were of course dominated by the Tonya Harding scandal, and all eyes were on American figure skating hopeful and assault victim Nancy Kerrigan, who ended up hosting the show on March 12, 1994, and in her monologue, she joked about her infamous DisneyWorld "this is so corny" crack, and answered questions from "Tonya Harding" (Hutsell).īut the most famous Olympics-influenced moment of the 1994 Olympics was Chris Farley's figure skating sketch where he played a champion pairs skater who'd gained weight before the Olympics. Dominic is a football commentator, commentating on live matches for. By Associated Press - Monday, July 19, 2021. The highlight? Chris Farley’s performance & commentary of Olympic ice skating /Vhd5sH8wVr Al Michaels was weekday and weekend host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Lillehammer 1994Ģ5 Years Ago Today: A Nancy Kerrigan hosted “Saturday Night Live,” with Aretha Franklin as the musical guest, generates ratings that won’t be topped for 14 years. The Beijing Games were his 14th Olympic assignment (including work for ABC, CBS and TNT), more than for any other commentator. The sole gag here is that Demming fails every jump and ends up sliding helplessly across the ice, but it's worth it for a) Priestley, who was a red-hot teen idol as the star of Beverly Hills, 90210 at the time, doing most of his own skating, and b) the great Melanie Hutsell playing Demming's intense mom. One of the world’s fastest swimmers in the 1980s, Ambrose Rowdy Gaines IV now ranks as the most experienced television analyst in the sport. Amy Deloris Van Dyken-Rouen (born February 15, 1973) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and national radio sports talk show co-host. Four years later, the Olympics took to France, and SNL marked the occasion with a cold-open sketch featuring Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey as Olympic commentators Verne Lundquist and Scott Hamilton as they call the men's figure skating competition and in particular the hapless performance of Brian Demming.
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