Die Zeit unter der Lupe 987/1968 24.12.1968

Year in review Mexico 68 aerial photographs of Mexico City. Dense traffic on broad Street. Mexicans and people on the street. The Olympic flame is lit. Starter is launching pad. Short-distance runners start and run ZL. Win a colorful runner. Viewers firing. Win a black runner. Viewers with sombrero. Black power demonstration at award ceremony. Bob Beaman jump 8.90 m far, ZL. Thick Fosburry jumps in the supine position and wins gold medal. The two German canoe winners Eater/Zimmermann in the race. Swimmers and swimmers. Vera Caslavska at the uneven bars and Vault. Neon sign of the Olympic rings. Audience clapping. Colored athletes race victories. State copying. Athletes lie on the ground after collapse under oxygen mask. Cooperation bridge. Mexican with big cigarette. Long-distance runner. Runner is lying on the ground. Runners carried off on stretcher. Hurdlers. Athletes with collapse. Face of a Mexican audience, great. Collapsed athletes. Face of a girl, great. Marathon runners on the track. Japanese Kenji Kimihara refreshes while running. He is 2. The last runner staggers 1 ½ hours later with associated leg over the finish line. Martin Lauer interviews the German sports doctor Professor Reindell about collapse of the athlete interview: "do you think that there is a real danger to health and life of our athletes? -"The crisis look certainly Very much threatening, and it must be admitted that we didn't expect a such multitude of failures, but, the electro-cartographic studies have shown that the crisis left no lasting damage, first and foremost at heart, which were won at the rowers, where the most serious crisis observed. No notice was given, that any damage to organic remains." Athlete under oxygen mask. Untarnished Stadium. Spectators under umbrellas in a downpour. Klaus Schiprowski in the pole vault of ZL. Gerhard Hennige at the running 400 m hurdles (Silver). State copying. GDR female athlete in the shot put, great. GDR swimmer of Roland Matthes in the 100 m backstroke (gold medal). Karin Balzer DDR gymnast on uneven bars (Silver). German flag with the Olympic rings on the gold medal mast next to the United States. Before comparing the medals of East-West (8th and 5th place). Harald Norpoth in the 1500 m run. Harald Norpoth during training. Running training ZL. Harald Norpoth speaks interview about the German sports: "Unlike many scientists, so the doctors and too many sports officials, who have trivialized the problem of the high-altitude air of Mexico but too, I was clear that the mountain air would bring so many problems for us means Langstreckler that you had from the outset but hardly any chances... me from the outset in I can imagine Very good, that the Olympic Games today, as a bogeyman in the neck sit the German sports officials, i.e. that it can help us to Munich only an intensive promotion of the powerfull." Start of eights in Mexico. German victory. Eight posts in the training. Athletes carry the boat. Karl Adam speaks interview about the German performance sport: "the most important cause is perhaps simply the low performance motivation and low motivation. To turn off these root causes, the time is too short for Munich. We must therefore To try to pull us out of the affair somehow again. I am expecting a worse performance in Munich in Mexico." Small diving bird emerges (coot). Model of the stadiums in Munich on the upper meadow field. Willi Daume speaks interview about German power sport big: "we have a power willing youth, that is willing to engage, to take the necessary austerity and asceticism in. This youth, we must sleep conditions. That has its limits in our liberal social order, but no disadvantage to be needs. Just this society must help. The State must help. We are encouraging talks with the Federal Government. But, above all the school must adapt differently to competitive sports. When everything comes, as we imagine it, the defeats of 1968 will be the prerequisites for the victories of 1972." Fireworks at closing ceremony of Munich 1972

Olympics 1968 source: INA-pool 1 role.

2. 3 roll portrait Harald Norpoth UFA 613 interview Norpoth domestic 9824 rowing UFA 639 interview Karl Adam domestic 9828 Olympic city Munich interview Willi Daume domestic 9828a Fireworks ZL 979 at the beginning and end of total length

Mexico 1968 3 years Mexicans their games had planned, worked 1 year. Unexpectedly accurate, they completed the first Olympics on Latin American soil. Was for the 44 million people, whose ability to improvise estimated its organization talent but doubts, the games considered to be spectacular evidence of their national capacity. We recall Once again the unforgettable moments that sports Super show of the year 1968.
The 19th summer games were the games of colored athletes, the games of the Americans, the games of incredible records. The political demonstration remained an exception. The most notable achievement: Bob Beamons long jump world record of 8 m 90.
The most original performance: Dick Fosburys high jump victory. The most successful comeback: the canoe victory of the German couple Zimmermann/Eater after 3-year competition hiatus.
21 of 45 gold medals get Americans in swimming. Only a few of their favorites are beaten like this in the 100 meters crawl swimming by outsiders. Long-term, systematic preparation is the secret of all victories. Vera Caslavska, who coached outstanding gymnast, according to plan, had occupied himself as the Russians in Prague.
The lack of insight into the requirements of modern performance sports declared a part of the disappointing performance of the German team.
The altitude of Mexico allows fable records - and she favored the athletes who come from the Highlands. The risk: the collapse in continuous services. Competitions under the oxygen mask is a symbol of these games.
Canoeists, rowers, athletes suffer the most. In over 2000 meters height they need four breath to inhale as much oxygen as in the flat for 3 breaths.
The requirement of the international of Olympic Committee, in the last quarter before the game only 4 weeks to allow high-altitude training, proved to be the wrong decision. To the physical exertion of psychological pressure comes to win, to fulfill the expectations of one's own nation - a problem which especially Germany's athletes have to deal with in Munich. The confrontation between the two German teams there comes to the Olympic prestige duel between the USSR and the United States.
The compulsion to go to the limit of the capacity may cause the disaster in the flat country. In Mexico - it was said - the death ran Not yet, but he was already at the start.
Also at the marathon, running the suffering, a man from the Highlands WINS: the Ethiopians Mamu Wolde. The Japanese Kenji Kinihara loses second 3 minutes.
Even more than the winners are losers from the efforts of this barrel. 1 1/2 hours after the first shaking the last finish.
The German team had a total of 12 purporting. That's why we asked Professor Reindell, the doctor of the German Olympic team in Mexico after the risks to health and life of our athletes.
"Do you think that there is a real danger to health and life of our athletes?"
"The crisis look certainly Very much threatening, and it must be admitted that we didn't expect a such multitude of failures, but, the electro-cartographic studies have shown that the crisis left no lasting damage, first and foremost at heart, which were won at the rowers, where the most serious crisis observed.
No notice was given, that any damage to organic remains."
The 297 man team of Germany won 26 medals. The disappointing 8, place among 119 Nations is the receipt for the poor promotion of competitive sports. The success of German athletes such as Klaus Schiprowski, Ingrid Becker and the rotor on track 2 Gerd Hennige, resulted in rather surprising performance increases as the result of systematic training like athletes in East Germany. For example, Roland Matthes began 12 years after the stopwatch to swim, at 17, he won two gold medals. His victories helped the 5th place of the GDR. The difference in level between two German teams was larger than expected.
We asked for the reasons of failure. An athlete, a coach and an official from the Federal Republic commented. Harald Norpoth, favored Central and Langstreckler, was over 1500 meters of only fourth, he gave up in the 500 metres. The altitude of Mexico was the main problem for Norpoth. "Unlike many scientists, so the doctors and too many sports officials, who have trivialized the problem of the high-altitude air of Mexico but too, I was clear that the mountain air would bring so many problems for us means Langstreckler, that you had from the outset but hardly any chances of me from the outset about."
"His proposals for Munich: I can imagine Very good, that the Olympic Games today, as a bogeyman in the neck sit the German sports officials, i.e. that it can help us to Munich only an intensive promotion of the powerfull."
The German roller coaster won the coveted Gold Medal of rowing. A price for the method of the Ratzeburger of rowing Professor Karl Adam. A proof of his thesis, to create centres of excellence and to make the elite teams. The future of Federal competitive sports and the already calculated chances of Munich 1972 meet him with skepticism. "The most important cause is the low performance motivation and low motivation may simply. To turn off these root causes, the time is too short for Munich. So, we need To try somehow to pull us out of the affair. I am expecting a worse performance in Munich in Mexico."
On the upper meadow field, the Olympic construction of 1972 incurred after award-winning designs. Improved sports organization, but no State-Sport - this is the aim of Willi Daume, President of the German Sports Federation.
"We have a power willing youth, that is willing to engage, to take the necessary austerity and asceticism in. We must create the conditions to these youth. That has its limits in our liberal social order, but no disadvantage to be needs. Just this society must help. The State must help. We are encouraging talks with the Federal Government. But, above all the school must adapt differently to competitive sports. When everything comes, as we imagine it, the defeats of 1968 will be the prerequisites for the victories of 1972."
The games of Mexico called "Chaotic, friendly, absurd". It will include A lot, Munich to meet the high expectations. The Federal Republic can be satisfied when it is later said it had been normal games.

Date of Release:

24.12.1968

Year of Production:

1968

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Ina-Pool

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German