Veteran Olympic Sportscaster, Jim McKay Dies
He covered 100 different sports in 40 countries. He won 12 Emmy Awards as well as numerous other honors. He covered 12 Olympic games. But, it was Jim McKay’s solid and compassionate broadcasting during the dark days at the 1972 Munich games that would be the most important moment of his career.
McKay guided a world of spectactors through the events that ended in the deaths of eleven Israeli athletes. He would call it “the day sports lost its innocence” and his coverage would win him a sports and a news Emmy and the prestigious George Polk Award.
Jim McKay was also known for his work on “Wide World of Sports,” a show he hosted from 1961 to 2001.
McKay died Saturday morning at his home in Monkton, MD of natural causes. He was 86.
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