Recent Posts by Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director
By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, August 6, 2021 - 12:24
Handball was created and developed in Denmark, Sweden and Germany in the late 19th century. Originally played outdoors as field handball, the sport first appeared at the Berlin 1936 Games. […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, August 6, 2021 - 12:21
Sport climbing takes the challenge of scaling steep ascents to a whole new level. Using a range of hand and foot holds of different shapes and sizes, climbers put their […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Friday, August 6, 2021 - 12:16
NBC Olympics venue operations are always challenged by everything from the weather to venue changes and even little things like travelling from the IBC to venues and from venue to […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 15:40
The first of August is a day that will go down in Italian sports history as Lamont Jacobs won the gold medal in the men’s 100 metres only minutes after […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 15:37
It doesn’t get any more traditional than wrestling when it comes to Olympic sports as wrestling was a feature of the ancient Olympic Games in 708 BC, with the sport’s […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 15:34
Baseball was played as a demonstration sport at a number of editions of the Games before being adopted as a medal sport at Barcelona 1992. The sport was contested until […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 15:27
When the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games ended, OBS CTO Sotiris Salamouris and his team laid out a vision for the 2020 Tokyo Games that was ambitious. Not only did they […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 2, 2021 - 11:06
Channel One Russia is delivering 12 hours of live sports content to viewers back home and its production philosophy is unique this year: a production gallery that is integrating commercials […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 2, 2021 - 11:03
Karl Malone, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, director, sound design, says that the 2020 Olympics is truly the audio Olympics. And while he jokes that he says that every Olympics, […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, Editorial Director | Monday, August 2, 2021 - 10:59
Finland’s YLE was planning on having more of a hybrid production model with a team here in Tokyo producing the athletics coverage for back home, but the COVID pandemic required […]
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