1980 Olympic Winter Game Lake Placid tickets:
2/17/80 - Figure Skating - Ice Dancing - 1 Compulsory Dance & Original Set Pattern - 14:00-17:00 Olympic Center. - Soviet Union took Gold (Irina Rodnina/Alexander Zaitsev) and Silver (Marina Cherkasova/Sergei Shakhrai) for this event, with East Germany finishing with a Bronze (Manuela Mager/Uwe Bewersdorff).
2/21/80 - Figure Skating - Men Free Skating & Awards - 19:30-23:00 Olympic Center. This ticket was autographed on the back by Charles Tickner (USA) who won a Bronze Medal in Men's Skating. Please see pictures for ticket condition - there is creasing and some staining.
2/21/80 - Figure Skating - Women Short Program - 14:00-16:00 Olympic Center. Linda Fratianne (USA) brought home a Silver medal in Women's Figure Skating. Annet Potzsch of East Germany won Gold and Dagmar Lurz of West Germany got Bronze. Please see pictures for ticket condition - there is a lot of creasing on this ticket.
2/24/80 - Figure Skating - Exhibition - 19:00-20:00 - Olympic Center
There is creasing and edge wear with very notable wear on the Women's Short Program ticket as shown..
This came from the estate of Bob Larson who was an ABC Sports employee. He attended many sporting events over his career with ABC. Please see our other listings for more interesting sport items from his career.
This item is sold as shown and as is with no returns. If you need additional photos to better judge condition or if you have any questions, please ask before purchasing. We did our best to research these tickets. Please confirm the details on our listing match your own research to be sure these are the correct tickets you are interested in.
A few people have asked about the authenticity of the tickets we have listed. We know they all came from Bob Larson who worked for ABC Sports. We have most of what he had from his estate. One other person had some of his estate also and he happened to have his press badge for Lake Placid Olympics, so we know for certain he attended. You can find this pass by searching under sold items for 1980 Winter Olympics ABC Sports Pass to verify. We used the 1980 Olympic Schedule to confirm the event each ticket was used for and that the date/time/venue matched the information on all of the tickets we have listed. Bob Larson attended many major sports events over the course of his career at ABC. He was a well-travelled person that liked to bring back souvenirs and lots of keepsakes and mementos from his trips and assignments. It looks like he saved every single media tag he was ever issued. So, we have no doubt about the authenticity. Please check out the other items we have listed and keep watching for more.
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