Alpine skiing
At Snowbasin Ski Area
Men’s downhill, 11 a.m.
Hockey
At the Peaks Ice Arena
Men’s prelim, Austria vs. Germany, 5 p.m.
At E Center
Men’s prelim, Latvia vs. Slovakia, 8 p.m.
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Luge
At Utah Olympic Park
Men’s singles, runs 1 & 2, 5 p.m.
Nordic combined
At Soldier Hollow
15k indvidual, 10 a.m.
Ski jumping
At Utah Olympic Park
K90 individual qualifications, 9:30 a.m.
K90 individual final
Snowboarding
At Park City Mountain Resort
Women’s halfpipe, 11 a.m.
Speedskating
At Utah Olympic Oval
Women’s 3,000, 2 p.m.
SUNDAY’S TV
2 p.m.-4 p.m.
NBC: Snowboarding (women’s halfpipe), speedskating (women’s 3,000m)
5 p.m.-11 p.m.
CNBC: Men’s hockey (Austria vs. Germany, Latvia vs. Slovakia)
7 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
NBC: Alpine skiing (men’s downhill), luge (men’s singles), nordic combined (15k cross-country individual), ski jumping (K90 individual), snowboarding (women’s halfpipe final)
11:05 p.m.-11:35 p.m.
NBC: Daily roundup
11:35 p.m.-3 a.m.
NBC: Taped coverage
Midnight-6 a.m.
MSNBC: Taped coverage
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Vinko Bogataj
Yugoslavian ski jumper
It is the enduring image of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”
Vinko Bogataj, a 22-year-old from Yugoslavia, hurtles off the ski jump at the 1970 International Ski Flying Championships in Obertsdorf, West Germany, over the bales of hay that were supposed to provide a soft landing, tumbles head over skis and lands with a thud. It was part of the opening montage of the television show, and it was always accompanied by an announcer’s voice saying ” . . . and the agony of defeat.”
Jim McKay, who is working for NBC at the Olympics, has always said that the most-asked question of him is: What ever happened to the hapless skier?
Bogataj is alive and well and living in Lesce, Slovenia. He is the father of Monica and Sandra and the husband of Lilijana. After working in a foundry for much of his life, Bogataj, who turns 54 next month, owns a truck and drives around Slovenia, Croatia, Germany and Austria delivering manufacturing equipment.
He also paints oil and watercolor landscapes that are good enough to be sold around town.
This information comes courtesy of his oldest daughter, Monica, 28, who is a veterinarian technician and who answered the phone at the Bogataj home.
Her father, she said, was driving his truck. But since he doesn’t speak English so well, Monica was happy to tell of her father’s life.
“He is not so famous in Slovenia,” Monica said, “but in America it is a completely different story. ABC brought our family to New York and for the first time my father found out that he was famous. He did not believe it, I don’t think.”
Monica traveled around the U.S. for six weeks in 1998 and found that wherever she was, whoever she was with, if someone found out she was the daughter of the “Agony of Defeat” guy, “they all wanted to talk to me. They want to know if my dad was hurt and if he still skis.”
Her dad was hurt, bumps and bruises mostly and a pain in his ankle, Monica says. And he still does some ski jumping, “mostly for fun,” Monica said.
“When I look at the video of his fall, it is kind of amazing and when we came to the U.S. for the first time, none of us could believe how everybody wanted to meet my dad. All from that one fall. Here at home, hardly anybody knows about it. Here my dad is just a truck driver.”