It was not Mexico City.
a) Marion Coakes is not a man, the three riders in that video are almost certainly men.
b) The British jumping team wears blue jackets, not red. Do a google for pictures of Coakes and Broome at the '68 OG.
So do you think people that are into other sports are doing the same thing, madly trying to figure out who’s who in the photos in the commercial?
Or is it just us crazy horse folk? 
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That has to be about one of the more humourous posts you’ve had Drymb1ggl3!
I did do prior research and must have found a poorly written piece because when referring to Marion Coakes and Stroller it used the pronoun “He” throughout.
Ok now that I have had some time to scour more images… are there any Canadians present who can speak to the team jacket for the Canadian team back in 1968??
I believe at this point that the image may represent the gold medal winning show jumping team from Canada James Day, Jim Elder and Thomas Gayford. Since the British coats had black collars and the Americans did not all have brown tops on their boots…
Anyone???
(I am sending an email now to someone in the know)
~Emily
I don’t know any of the athletes( video would not play for me), but the header at the top of the video says
“Coke commercial features Special Olympics athletes”
We know it can’t be dressage. It’s unlikely that eventing medals were given out in the main stadium. As someone pointed out earlier it was traditional that the showjumping medals were the last ones awarded before the closing of the games.
So you have
1960 -
Team - West Germany – possible
Individuals - Raimondo d’Inzeo, Piero d’Inzeo, David Broome - can’t be as the d’Inzeo brothers wore military uniforms.
1964 -
Team - West Germany - possible
Individuals - Pierre Jonquères d’Oriola , Hermann Schridde, Peter Robeson - unlikely as the French rider would be wearing blue jacket.
1968
Team - Canada - [COLOR=Blue]possible
Individual - Steinkraus, Coakes, Broome - can’t be for reasons mentioned earlier.
1972
Team - West Germany - possible
Individual - Mancinelli, Moore, Shapiro - can’t be as Italian would not be wearing red, and Moore was a woman.
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I’m going to go with 1972, West German team medals.
Looking at the stadium I’m certain it’s the Olympiastadion in Munich, having watched Bayern Munich play there I’m pretty sure that’s it.
definitely not Canada (Mexico 68) and early in the clip in the background there are men in military uniforms - I’m guessing Rome. USA was silver in team standing (Steinkraus, Chapot, Morris??)
Nope can’t be 1972, as there were 4 riders on a team from '72 onwards.
Commerical is at the bottom. Some of the athletes shown are listed
Show jumpers are special 
Ok I have pics… a little hard to see:
Rome 1960 Medal Ceremony…German team and a brief glimpse of Tokyo 1964. (Enought o rule it out in my mind):
This is of course the picture that Polly mentioned earlier. So kudos to her. I am still awaiting an answer from my email. Not sure if I will get one. But here’s hoping!
~Emily
Yep it’s definitely Rome 1960. Two dark haired guys and a short haired blond guy and also the short bald dude awarding the medals is the same guy in the video.
You can hit the zoom feature on the side and it blows it up to full screen.
What a great thread, and what great research everyone conducted. The ad executive that put this commercial together should get a huge bonus for getting all of us to view the commercial, scratch our heads, research, and discuss. Great publicity for Coke.
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Yep it’s definitely Rome 1960. Two dark haired guys and a short haired blond guy and also the short bald dude awarding the medals is the same guy in the video.
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I agree, it was the only one that made sense to me. So it’s Steinkraus, Chapot and Morris. They rode Ksar d’Esprit, Trail Guide and Sinjon.
fei.org says the US silver-medal-winning team in 1960 was Steinkraus, Wiley, Morris. Not Chapot.
I still think it’s the German team. Their hair in the commercial matches that in the b&w photo. And their coats appear in the commercial to have red collars.
It’s not, it’s the Gold medal German team. They are standing in the center, gold medal spot, of the podium.
Marion Mould (nee Coakes) was one of my childhood idols. Seeing her win major competitions on her 14h 2" connemara cross was simply inspiring. There weren’t as many women in the upper eschelons of show jumping back then, and to have a chick on a pony beat the big boys was wonderful!
Now, back to the real thread discussion!
If you’re talking about the UA “Sea Orchestra” commercial, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv75cWzXK6w ), tell me it wasn’t inspired by Bosch’s “Garden Of Earthly Delights” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GardenED_edit1.jpg )! :lol:
Now, whenever I see an animated commercial playing “Rhapsody in Blue,” I automatically think it’s a United commercial.
