Series "For Sports" - Legendary Olympic Moments - "Where is Behle" - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 2019 - 85 Euro Cent

The 1980 Winter Olympics took place from 13 to 24 February in Lake Placid, New York. The start of the 15-kilometer cross-country skiing of the men, which was mainly a competition between the favorites from Northern Europe and the Soviet Union, was early at 9 clock. ZDF reporter Bruno Moravetz (1921-2013), who reported from 1952 to 1992 of all Winter Olympics, commented on the events. One of five German starters on this day was the only 19-year-old Jochen Behle from Willingen in Hochsauerland. Having started with the bib number 40, the young runner stormed the field at the 5 kilometer mark. Moravetz 'assistant Magdalena Müller showed her boss the surprising score on the monitor. But Behle did not appear on any of the moving pictures, no camera caught him. The US television station continued to show their own compatriots in the winter forest. Moravetz later recounted the situation: "So I freaked out [...] and I started looking for Behle." He commented angrily on: "Who believes that? Then you would have Behle see. Yes, they have something against Behle?" Almost desperately, Moravetz shouted for current shots of the surprising leader and kept asking the worried question: "Where is Behle?" His interim best time at five kilometers was later surpassed only by three favorites: Jozef Luszczek from Poland, Juha Mieto from Finland and Thomas Wassberg from Sweden. But even more times, let alone images of the fantastic thing on this day Behle were not displayed. In the end, the Willinger reached as the best Western Europeans a previously unexpected twelfth place. The race also entered sports history for another reason: the Olympic champion Wassberg only split one-hundredth of a second from the second Mieto - the International Ski Federation then completed the measurement in hundredths.