HI299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Summit Series, 1936 Summer Olympics, Phil Esposito
Document Summary
8 game series beween the union of soviet socialist republics and cnada first 4 games were held in canada and the final 4 in moscow. 12 million listeners and viewers (radio and tv) in canada. Foster hewitt: henderson has scored for canada ! (cid:1) Russian players did not play in the nhl. Canadian players were considered the best hockey talent in the world. Phil esposito railed the nation after a 5-3 loss at home in game 4. Canada won the series 4-3 (game 3 was a tie) (cid:1) 1972 summit series television was the matrix for a sports event (cultural text) Class, ethnicity and gender were welded into a rare moment. Presidential nikolai podgorny and premier alex kosygin attended. 1972 summer olympics in munich, west germany. High-profile chance for west germany to fix" its international reputation. Distance itself from its national socialist past (1936 berlin games and hitler) Pr campaigns advertising the games began in 1968 (notion of new.
