The Official Souvenir Program for th 1988 Winter Olympic Calgary Games
date: label: date made
content: 1988
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Program for the 15th Winter Olympic games in Calgary. The program is white with a color photo of the gold, silver and bronze metals covered in snow.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1988 Winter Olympics, also known as the Games of the XV Olympiad were held in Calgary, Canada with 57 countries, 1,122 men and 301 women athletes participating. Due to extreme wind and weather conditions that affected the outdoor venues, it was the first time Alpine events were held on man-made snow. These games featured “The Battle of the Brians” in figure skating with American Brian Boitano winning gold over Canadian Brian Orser. The women figure skaters also battled it out-performing to the same music from Carmen with East Germany’s Katarina Witt taking gold and the American Debi Thomas placing third. Para-alpine skiing events for those disabled athletes who used seated equipment and who were visually impaired were introduced at the ’88 games. The Soviets won the medal count with 29 with the United States coming in ninth out of ten with six medals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Olympics
label: related event
content: Olympic Winter Games: Nagano, 1998
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3013.239
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3013
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3013.239
objectType: label: Object Name
content: program, olympic
label: Object Name
content: program, winter olympics
label: Object Name
content: program, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in x 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm x 1.27 cm