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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 08:16:59+00:00

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Teams: Les Brenets (CH) v. Le Mont-Dore (F) v.
Games: The Guests’ Arrival, The Parallel Slalom (interspersed), The Luggage Racks, Tossing the Pancakes, The Champagne Bottles, The Wrong Doors, Room Service.
The snowy weather conditions resulted in Swiss presenter Georges Kleinmann missing the recording entirely and he had to record a voice-over later.
There was almost a touch of déjà vu at this heat harking back to 1966 when a similar scenario actually caused it to be abandoned completely. The weather conditions as this event were appalling and at first glance it appeared that it could also suffer the same fate. With heavy mist blanketing the top of the ski slopes where all the games started and with all the cameras positioned on the slopes to take long shots of the games, the picture quality of the broadcast was very poor. Microphones became defective, cameras broke down and some of the sets were not delivered on time. With 60 mph gusts of wind and freezing temperatures of -20°C, it meant that most of the commentary from the on-site French presenters had to be re-recorded inside the commentary box later!
With some of the games being competed in unison, it was very difficult to establish which team was which as they descended the slope. The Parallel Slalom suffered the same fate but with a greater degree of obscurity. It was only due to ident letters appearing on screen to indicate which team was in which lane that viewers would know which was successful in each of the four runs!
The team colours chosen for the teams at this year’s Interneige were to have been those that had been utilised in the previous Jeux Sans Frontières in 1979, with Switzerland donned in light orange-yellow and Yugoslavia in a darker shade of blue than that of Italy. However, following the appalling weather conditions that were experienced at this heat, these colours were deemed not distinct enough to be recognised by the cameras on long shots etc. In the following heat, Switzerland had changed to red and although Yugoslavia continued on for a second heat in the Jeux Sans Frontières colours, by the third heat they had changed into yellow for the remainder of the Winter series. In the interests of parity, we at JSFnetGB have decided to show the teams in their final selected colours throughout.
The Swiss broadcaster SSR delayed their transmissions of the 1980 Interneige series due to the Winter Olympics.
Despite teams from Portugal not taking part in the series, Portuguese broadcaster RTP transmitted Interneige under the title, Jogos na neve. This translates into English as 'Games in Snow'.
Teams: Zinal-Val d’Anniviers (CH) v. Serre-Chevalier (F) v.
Games: The Squirrels’ Nuts, The Parallel Slalom (interspersed), The Strongmen’s Dumbbells, The Horsewomen and the Flowers, The Ski Bombers, The Female Cannonball, Huskies and the Snowmen.
The French team comprised of members from the ski resort of Serre-Chevalier, situated in the French Alps close to the town of Briançon and the Parc National des Écrins.
The team of Kranj have the distinction of having competed in Jeux Sans Frontières for two different countries. Here, they represented Yugoslavia and then in 1996, the team played for the newly-independent Slovenia.
Teams: Torgon (CH) v. Morzine (F) v.
Games: The Laundrymaids’ Washing, The Parallel Slalom (interspersed), The Fire-Fighters, The Bakers’ Pretzels, The Chimney Sweeps, The Postal Workers, The Wine Makers.
Teams: Les Diablerets (CH) v. Megève-la Blanche (F) v.
Games: Postcards and Olympic Rings, The Parallel Slalom (interspersed), The Giant Ski Mask, The Giant Fruits, The Rabbit Biathlon, The Butterflies, The Ice Hockey Pucks.
Jahorina is a mountain found directly to the southeast of Sarajevo, bordering Bjelašnica mountain. Four years on from this event, as part of the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Games, the ski resort of Jahorina hosted several of the disciplines itself. To a degree, this was seen as a rehearsal and fact finder for that coming event.
The Italian team of Aosta had previously participated in 1975 and 1979. They also joined forces with other neighbouring ski resorts to participate in 1977, 1979 and 1988.
A team from the ski resorts of the Gressoney valley went on to participate once more in 1992.
A team from the French town of Megève had already competed in the Winter competition of 1979, but the team joined forces with the ski-club of La Blanche to participate in Interneige 1980.
Teams: Torgon (CH) v. Le Mont-Dore (F) v.
Games: The Chickens and the Windmills, The Parallel Slalom (interspersed), The Matadors and the Bull, The Military Six Pins, The Nannies and the Prams, The Dogs and the Street Lamps, The Dandies and the Exploding Champagne Bottles.
The winning team from the previous week’s programme, Jahorina-Sarajevo (YU) were simply shown on the scoreboard as Sarajevo for the Winter Final. No reason was given for this, but they are shown here with their original name.
No tie-break game was played when this competition ended in a draw. The four trophies awarded were silver goblets of increasing size and due to an oversight in the planning of this heat, the Italian team had to be presented with the '2nd' placed team's trophy whilst Yugoslavia were presented with the largest goblet. Presenter Guy Lux stated when awarding the trophies that they had a problem and that after the programme a duplicate winners' goblet would be presented to Italy.

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