Jeux Sans Frontieres Belgrade 1981 (YU) English Commentary Full Show

An old episode of Jeux Sans Frontieres [International It's a Knockout] from 1981.

Teams: Lessines (B) v. Ittigen (CH) v. Issy-les-Moulineaux (F) v.
Dartmouth (GB) v. Lignano Sabbiadoro (I) v. Lisboa (P) v. Pula (YU)

Games: Accordions and Maze, Lovers and Flowers, The Metronome, Swan Lake, Banging the Cymbals, Octopus, Shaving the Barber and Flight of the Bumble Bee;
Fil Rouge: Coins and Piano Keys;
Jokers: Bumble Bees on Flowers.

Did You Know? British team Dartmouth were lying in 3rd place before the final game, just 2 points behind Portuguese team Lisboa and Yugoslavian team Pula. Dartmouth managed to win the final game - 'Flight of the Bumble Bee' - and watched with baited breath as the other teams finished. French team Issy-les-Moulineaux finished in 2nd place, followed by the Swiss, the Yugoslavians, the Portuguese and the Italians, with the Belgians bringing up the rear.This meant that Dartmouth had won the Final by a single point over the Yugoslavian team of Pula, but this quickly changed. As the finishing positions for the game were announced, referee Gennaro Olivieri stated that the French team had broken the rules and were demoted to last place on the game. This promoted the Pula team into 3rd place on the game and a joint 1st place on the night with Dartmouth. However, Pula's celebrations were short-lived as Olivieri went on to announce that the Yugoslavian team had also flouted the rules. He penalised them by dropping them to 5th place on the game. This resulted in the Portuguese team from Lisboa being promoted to 3rd place on the final game, which left them with the same points score as Dartmouth. These two teams shared the spoils in a controversial end to the International Final.

Home team Pula had squandered the chance to be the first Yugoslavian Jeux Sans Frontières champions in front of their own supporters!

Dartmouth team captain Sid Davies sustained a slight injury during the build-up to this Final. So that the team could be at full strength, it was felt that team-mate Peter Collins should be promoted to the role of team captain.

After the second Fil Rouge, referee Gennaro Olivieri announced that British team Dartmouth's first Fil Rouge time of 1m 22secs was incorrect, and amended it to 1m 21secs before announcing the second round's times!

The Fil Rouge was played with the music of ABBA's No.1 hit Money, Money, Money, Game 2 with Guiseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore and Game 5 with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Little Swans.

The top two countries from the 1980 International Final - Portugal and Great Britain - occupied the top two slots this year too, but this time they couldn't be separated, and they shared the spoils. [Description thanks to JSFNetGB]