Winter Olympics 1980 Lake Placid Skiing - Downhill - Harti Weirather Run - RARE footage!@

Rare!! My father recorded this run back in 1980 to our new VHS video recorder, one of the first JVCs on the market. He was listening to War of the Worlds on headphones one time whilst we were watching the VHS tape and his face lit up when he heard the incredible match of this piece of music to Harti's run. He did a dub sync of it and here it is for you..our family watched it hundreds of times ... Its quite remarkable, from the start to finish its like the music was played to his race, every turn matches the guitar and even the siren matches the speed MPH display. And his suit pattern and the way he jumps with one leg extended looks like an alien. This man had amazing and unique style. This sync is just one of those magical things in the universe. My father tried contacting ABC USA and even the Weirather family to find out of they had a better copy this footage and its completely lost..no-one has it. So ive done a big restoration on the video from his original tape. Came up quite well i must say. The picture gets clearer as the run progresses not because of the tape but because the fog lifts as he moves lower down the hill!! Enjoy this special run!!! (Transfer - Original Scotch VHS 3Hr (1980) SP- Panasonic NVHS-980 SVHS (mint) - SVIDEO lead - Canopus ADVC300 - Firewire - PC /w/ Sony Vegas with Neatvideo plugin - TMPGENC (Deint - 50fps mp4) - RUclips

[@ChrisB10]

This is incredible. What I wouldn't give to have been around for this. Was looking at Skyward and Cloudspin today from the mid Station chair lift and was just blown away at riders bombing the trails

[@anfa8833]

What do you guys think Is the Lake Placid-NY ready for the Olympic Games again?

[@patrickdriscoll6517]

Got any more video of those races?

[@DarrenGlen]

lots from 1980 and 81...several 3 hour tapes worth actually

[@ENIACofficial]

more mod vids plz