brings you, live by satellite from Lake Placid, today's outstanding event in the XIII Winter
Olympic Games I The Men's Figure Skating
Championship
Can the world's best free skater, Britain's ROBIN COUSINS, emulate the feat of John Curry , who, four years ago, achieved a clean sweep in European, Olympic and World competitions? A decisive win in last month's European Championship makes Cousins the favourite for an Olympic gold medal, ahead of three former World Champions from recent years - CHARLES TICK-NER (USA), JAN HOFFMANN (East Germany) and VLADIMIR KOVALEV (USSR). Commentator ALAN WEEKS Also in tonight's programme, the second stage of the Ladies' Championship - the short programme. Britain's champion is KARENA RICHARDSON.
Introduced by David Coleman
Television presentation by the AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY
Editors JONATHAN MARTIN , HAROLD ANDERSON