Direction
Greenspan's patient, novelistic approach to athletic narrative.
Writing
Lyman's narration—dignified, never cheap, somehow not corny.

Director
Bud Greenspan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Bud Greenspan's final Olympic documentary before his death in 2010—eight Games spanning three decades of his career.
The 2006 Turin Games were overshadowed by a doping scandal involving Austrian biathletes, which Greenspan notably sidesteps in favor of inspirational narratives.
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