The First Olympics: Athens 1896

David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block, David Caruso, Alex Hyde-White

released: 1984 May 20   duration: 3:57:05

This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.

At 09:04 of Part 2, Edward Wiley, playing Coach John Graham, tosses 3 large oranges one at a time to William Armstrong, playing hurdler William Hoyt, who begins to juggle them. Wiley then steals them and continues the juggle, and then Armstrong steals them back again. The Coach then comments, "Let's just hope you can hurdle as well as you can juggle." This all lasts 17 seconds.

The entire movie may be seen here: Part 1 (1:34:35), Part 2 (2:22:30).


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