Relive Classic Olympic moments on ESPN during the festive season
Asia’s biggest sports content provider lights up the festive season with glorious moments from Olympic history
10 December, 2009: Celebrate the festive season with ESPN STAR Sports, as Asia’s biggest sports content provider looks to showcase a bagful of classic Olympic Games moments with its line-up of top class programming from the archives of the Olympic Films. 
ESPN STAR Sports will showcase timeless stories of inspiration from over 30,000 hours of archives with official footages from 12 Winter and Summer Olympic Games spanning over the last two decades. Sports fans can get into the festive mood with ‘Stories of Olympic Glory’ from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002 on Christmas Eve, followed by the Torino 2006 Winter Games and the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics on the big day of celebrations.
Scheduled primarily on Thursdays to Sundays every week, viewers can catch glittering moments from the iconic multi-sport competition, such as America’s Michael Johnson’s double gold in the 200m and 400m sprints at Barcelona 1992, as well as one of the most illustrious collections of talent assembled in the history of international basketball in the “Dream Team”.
Sports fans can also relive Carl Lewis record-setting moment when he secured his ninth title in the long jump in Atlanta 1996, catch Steffi Graf’s ‘Golden Slam’ glory in Seoul 1998 when she added an Olympic gold to her calendar Grand Slam as well as witness the beginning of Michael Phelps’ dominance when he swept six gold medals at the 2004 Athens Summer Games.
The following Olympic programming will be aired on ESPN. Please visit www.espnstar.com for programme highlights and broadcast details:
- Seoul 1988 : The World To Seoul
- Seoul 1988 : Beyond All Barriers
- Seoul 1988 : Official Documentary
- Barcelona 1992 : Marathon
- Albertville 1992 : One Light, One World
- Lillehammer 1994 : 16 Days Of Glory
- Atlanta 1996 : Atlanta’s Olympic Glory
- Nagano 1998 : Stories Of Honor And Glory
- Sydney 2000 : Stories Of Olympic Glory
- Salt Lake City 2002 : Stories Of Olympic Glory
- Athens 2004 : Stories Of Olympic Glory
- Torino 2006 : Stories Of Olympic Glory
Counting down to the Winter Games, ESPN STAR Sports, IOC’s exclusive pay TV broadcast partner in Asia for the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games across 22 countries, will showcase more than 120 hours of LIVE coverage in February 2010 when than 5,500 athletes and officials from more than 80 countries compete in seven sports and 86 medal events in Vancouver, Canada.
About ESPN STAR Sports
ESPN STAR Sports is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world’s leading cable and satellite broadcasters. As Asia’s definitive and complete sports broadcaster and content provider, ESPN STAR Sports combines the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent companies – Walt Disney (ESPN, Inc.) and News Corporation Limited (STAR) – to deliver a diverse array of international and regional sports to viewers via its encrypted pay-TV services.
ESPN STAR Sports showcases an unparalleled variety of premier live sports from around the globe 24 hours a day to a cumulative reach of more than 310 million viewers in Asia. ESPN STAR Sports has 18 networks covering 24 countries, each localised to deliver differentiated world-class premier sports programming to Asian viewers. This includes ESPN SEA, ESPN China, ESPN Hong Kong, ESPN India, ESPN Malaysia, ESPN Philippines, ESPN SEA 2, ESPN Taiwan, MBC-ESPN (Korea), STAR Sports Asia, STAR Sports Hong Kong, STAR Sports India, STAR Sports Malaysia, STAR Sports SEA, STAR Sports SEA 2, STAR Sports Taiwan, STAR Cricket and ESPNEWS.
On the ground, the ESPN STAR Sports Event Management Group manages and promotes premier sporting events around Asia. ESPN STAR Sports aims to reach consumers at any time, any place and through all new media platforms, both internet and mobile. The multi-lingual, online platforms, espnstar.com, espnstar.com.cn and espnstar.com.tw interact with millions of users providing them with in-depth sports news, results and competitions. Developed for the sports fan that is constantly on the move, mobileESPN enables the serious sports fan to follow their favourite sports more closely than ever before with a combination of specially produced video news clips, in-depth news coverage and analysis.
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