Olympic Games It is always an event of great proportions. Every Olympiad is a story. Each of them is remembered for something different. The 1980 Olympics was no exception, the medal count of which deserves special attention, since the USSR team then pulled ahead by 12 awards.
Event Features
1980 were held in the capital of the USSR, in the city of Moscow. It should be noted that the 1980 Olympics, the medal count of which deserves special attention, is a very relevant topic. But it should also be remembered that these were the first games in the entire history that took place on the territory of Eastern Europe. It was also the first Olympics held in a socialist country.
It is also worth noting that some of these competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. Sailing regattas, for example, started in Tallinn, and the preliminary games of the football tournament, as well as the quarterfinals, were held in Minsk, Leningrad and Kiev. Competitions were held in Mytishchi at the shooting range called "Dynamo".
These games are also known for the fact that more than fifty countries boycotted this Olympics, since Soviet troops were introduced into Afghanistan a year earlier. But some athletes from these states came to the capital of the USSR to compete under this boycott - one of the reasons for the reciprocal protest that took place at the next summer Olympics in 1984, held in Los Angeles. These features are one of the aspects that made the 1980 Olympics memorable. medal standings tops the list of memorable events as it was truly unique.
Capital of the Olympics
The decision on where this important event will take place was made in Vienna in 1974. The first idea to hold games in Moscow came from the chairman of the Sports Committee of the USSR, in 1969. But at that time, the voting results indicated that the Olympics would be held in Montreal. A few years later, Pavlov managed to convince the country's leadership to nominate the capital of the USSR again. And at that time, the victory remained with Moscow. The choice was between her and Los Angeles. But with a margin of 19 votes, the capital of the USSR won. For the first time, the Summer Olympic Games were held in a socialist country.
Path of the Olympic Flame
On June 21st, the fire moved out of Greece (Athens) and five days later was in Bulgaria, in Sofia. After that he went to Bucharest, where he arrived on the 1st of July. Then, on the 5th, he ended up in the Moldavian SSR, where he crossed the border of the USSR, ending up in Chisinau on July 6th. On July 11, the Olympic flame passed through Kiev, from where it went to Kharkov. Then his path lay through Tula and Podolsk directly to Moscow, the capital of the 1980 Olympic Games.
Results of the 1980 Olympics: medals, table
As mentioned before, the games of that year distinguished themselves in many ways. The 1980 Olympics shocked everyone. The medal standings of that year were really memorable. But there were also some other interesting features. For example, the youngest participant was 13 years old (Jorge Lima), and the oldest was 70 years old! 80 countries participated, from which 5253 participants came in total. Among them - 1120 women and 4133 men. The athlete-winner of that Olympics was the gymnast Alexander Dityatin, who then received eight awards.
Now about Most awards received the USSR - 41 medals, of which 15 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze. Next comes the GDR, which won less - 29 pieces. Of these, 11 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze. Next, with a huge margin of 19 medals, is Great Britain, which received 4 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. It is worth noting that these Summer Olympic Games were remembered for this medal count, since such a large gap in the number of awards won is rare. Thanks to this, these Games entered the history of world sports.
The Olympic Games are always an event of enormous proportions. Every Olympiad is a story. Each of them is remembered for something different. The 1980 Olympics was no exception, the medal count of which deserves special attention, since the USSR team then pulled ahead by 12 awards.
Event Features
It is also worth noting that some of these competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. Sailing regattas, for example, started in Tallinn, and the preliminary games of the football tournament, as well as the quarterfinals, were held in Minsk, Leningrad and Kiev. Shooting competitions were held in Mytishchi at the shooting range called "Dynamo".
These games are also known for the fact that more than fifty countries boycotted this Olympics, since Soviet troops were introduced into Afghanistan a year earlier. But some athletes from these states came to the capital of the USSR to perform under the Olympic flag. This boycott is one of the reasons for the reciprocal protest of the Soviet Union, which took place at the next Summer Olympics in 1984, held in Los Angeles. These features are one of the aspects that made the 1980 Olympics memorable. The medal count tops the list of memorable events as it was truly unique.
Capital of the Olympics
The decision on where this important event will take place was made in Vienna in 1974. The idea to hold the games in Moscow first came from Sergei Pavlov, chairman of the USSR Sports Committee, in 1969. But at that time, the voting results indicated that the Olympics would be held in Montreal. A few years later, Pavlov managed to convince the country's leadership to nominate the capital of the USSR again. And at that time, the victory remained with Moscow. The choice was between her and Los Angeles. But with a margin of 19 votes, the capital of the USSR won. For the first time, the Summer Olympic Games were held in a socialist country.
Path of the Olympic Flame
On June 21st, the fire moved out of Greece (Athens) and five days later was in Bulgaria, in Sofia. After that he went to Bucharest, where he arrived on the 1st of July. Then, on the 5th, he ended up in the Moldavian SSR, where he crossed the border of the USSR, ending up in Chisinau on July 6th. On July 11, the Olympic flame passed through Kiev, from where it went to Kharkov. Then his path lay through Tula and Podolsk directly to Moscow, the capital of the 1980 Olympic Games.
Results of the 1980 Olympics: medals, table
As mentioned before, the games of that year distinguished themselves in many ways. The 1980 Olympics shocked everyone. The medal standings of that year were really memorable. But there were also some other interesting features. For example, the youngest participant was 13 years old (Jorge Lima), and the oldest was 70 years old! 80 countries participated, from which 5253 participants came in total. Among them - 1120 women and 4133 men. The athlete-winner of that Olympics was the gymnast Alexander Dityatin, who then received eight awards.
Now about the medals of the 1980 Olympics. The USSR received the most awards - 41 medals, of which 15 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze. Next comes the GDR, which won less - 29 pieces. Of these, 11 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze. Next, with a huge margin of 19 medals, is Great Britain, which received 4 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. It is worth noting that these Summer Olympic Games are remembered for this medal count, since such a large gap in the number of medals won is rare. Thanks to this, these Games entered the history of world sports.
Lake Placid (USA)
The 1980 games were not so lucky. They were held during the most desperate period of the Cold War, when Soviet troops entered Afghanistan, and the United States and its allies were preparing to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow. The opposing blocs poured mud at each other, and our delegation's trip to the "enemy's lair" was accompanied by powerful ideological pumping. The USSR team included 86 athletes representing all sports except bobsleigh. Most of them spent two weeks in Lake Placid waiting for provocations from the American secret services, and Soviet newspapers wrote viciously about "their morals" and about the numerous blunders of the organizers of the Games.
Venue: Lake Placid, USA
February 14 - 23, 1980
Number of participating countries - 37
Number of athletes participating - 1072 (232 women, 840 men)
Medal sets - 38
Team winner - USSR
The three main characters of the Games according to "SE"
Herb Brooks (USA)
hockey (coach)
Eric Hayden (USA)
skating
Nikolai Zimyatov (USSR),
ski race
IN THE LAIR OF THE ENEMY
There were indeed grounds for dissatisfaction with the organization of the Games. Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics for the second time, and again, as in 1932, made many miscalculations. Chief among them was the failure of the Olympic village project. It was not possible to find an investor for it, and the local authorities did not come up with anything better than to provide athletes with a freshly built prison for juvenile delinquents. The Olympians had to rest in concrete chambers between starts - many complained about the oppressive atmosphere. During the 1980 Games, there were also problems with transport, communication and ticket sales.
Another problem was the lack of snow on the ski slopes. But it was solved with the help of snow cannons. More than $5 million was spent on the production of artificial snow - this was the first such case in the history of the Games. For many athletes, artificial turf turned out to be unusual - they had to adapt to new conditions. It is believed that it was the snow from the cannons that helped the Swede Ingemar Stenmark become a two-time Olympic champion, who won the competition in alpine skiing and giant slalom just five months after a serious injury.
But Stenmark's medals are not primarily remembered in connection with the 1980 Winter Olympics. The main event of the Games was the victory of the US hockey team over the great Soviet team, which interrupted the 16-year hegemony of the USSR in Olympic tournaments hockey. Players from student teams sensationally overcame the "red car" and won gold medals. The USA-USSR match, which was dubbed "Miracle on Ice" in the Western press, is recognized as the main event in the hundred-year history of hockey and in the history of American sports in the 20th century.
MIRACLE ON ICE
There are many explanations for the failure of Soviet hockey players - a generational change in our team, underestimation of rivals (on the eve of the Olympics, the USSR team defeated the US team with a score of 10: 3) and the mistakes of our coach Viktor Tikhonov, who was tactically outplayed by the American Herb Brooks. But the fact remains that the unknown students beat the most stellar team in the history of Soviet hockey with a score of 4:3. By the way, that historical duel was not decisive at all. After him, the US team also had to beat the Finns. After two periods, the hosts of the Olympics were losing 1:2, but managed to score three goals in a row and went down in history.
Almost the entire USSR team at that Olympics consisted of the legends of our hockey. Vladislav Tretyak, Boris Mikhailov, Valery Kharlamov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Vladimir Krutov, Sergey Makarov played for her. They finished six matches against other rivals with a total score of 60:13. "Miracle on Ice" overshadowed another important event in hockey tournament- return to the Games after an eight-year absence of Canadians. True, the Maple Leaves in Lake Placid failed to even make it out of the group, showing their worst result in history.
In the shadow of hockey achievements was even the grandiose performance of the American skater Eric Hayden, who won all five Olympic distances and became a five-time Lake Placid champion, setting a record for the Winter Games. The absence of the planned hockey gold did not prevent the USSR national team from achieving victory in the team event. Soviet Olympians won 10 awards of the highest value, ahead of athletes from the GDR in this indicator. Although the total number of medals best result still showed the East Germans.
TEAR OF THE CHAMPION
Among the Soviet heroes of the 1980 Games are biathlete Alexander Tikhonov, who won first place in the relay for the fourth time in a row, and figure skater Irina Rodnina, who became a three-time Olympic champion in Lake Placid. Rodnina's tears on the pedestal during the award ceremony are one of the most emotionally striking moments in the history of Russian sports. After the 1980 Olympics, the most titled figure skater in history will end her career as an athlete, and in 1990 she will leave to work as a coach in the United States for 12 years. In 2013, a book of her memoirs will be released under the title "Tears of a Champion". As for Tikhonov, in the future he will become a sports functionary and entrepreneur. In 2007, the court found him guilty of preparing an assassination attempt on the governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev, but released him from punishment under an amnesty.
Games at the peak of the Cold War were generally quite successful for us, despite the political and moral costs. In Lake Placid, skier Nikolai Zimyatov excelled, taking two individual and one relay gold. In the 50 km marathon, the little-known athlete before the Olympics beat the legendary Finn Juha Mieto by almost three minutes. Although, probably, this defeat was not as offensive as losing the 15 km race to the Finn. From Olympic champion- Thomas Wassberg - Mieto was separated by only one hundredth of a second. This is the smallest gap between the winners in Olympic history ski racing.
Another our heroine was the former seamstress from Riga Vera Zozulya, who sensationally celebrated the victory in the German patrimony - luge. After the collapse of the USSR, the only one in Russian history Olympic champion in luge will work first as a simple physical education teacher, then as a coach in Poland, Latvia and Kazakhstan, but will not be in demand in Russia.
Dwarfs vs Titans
One of the surprising features of the final medal table of the 1980 Olympics was the incredibly high - sixth - place of the Liechtenstein team, ahead of such winter sports leaders as the Norwegians, Finns and Swiss. The reason was the success of only two skiers - sister and brother Hanni and Andres Winzel, who for two won 4 medals in Lake Placid, including two gold ones. In general, Liechtenstein, thanks to its skiers from 1976 to 1988, consistently won medals in Winter Games. It is the most successful dwarf power in Olympic history.
Team Canada received a particularly warm welcome during the opening ceremony in Lake Placid. At the end of 1979, diplomats from this country, during the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran by radical students, rescued and brought home six Americans. True, another 52 employees of the embassy remained hostage, and for this reason, the option of the arrival of the Iranian team to the Games was not even considered. But at the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Chinese team returned to the Olympic family, which had not previously competed at the Games because of the IOC's position on the Taiwan issue. In the late 1970s, priorities changed and Taiwan was asked to drop its flag and go under the name Chinese Taipei. The Taiwanese were offended and boycotted the 1980 Olympics.
However, against the backdrop of global political demarches on Summer Games in the 1970s and 1980s, all these events will turn out to be only petty skirmishes. The major political upheavals, fortunately, hit the Winter Olympics only tangentially.
The Olympic Games are always an event of great proportions. Every Olympiad is a story. Each of them is remembered for something different. The 1980 Olympics was no exception, the medal count of which deserves special attention, since the USSR team then pulled ahead by 12 awards.
Event Features
The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in the capital of the USSR, in the city of Moscow. It is worth noting that the 1980 Olympics, the medal count of which deserves special attention, is a very relevant topic. But it should also be remembered that these were the first games in the entire history that took place on the territory of Eastern Europe. It was also the first Olympics held in a socialist country.
It is also worth noting that some of these competitions were held in other cities of the USSR. Sailing regattas, for example, started in Tallinn, and the preliminary games of the football tournament, as well as the quarterfinals, were held in Minsk, Leningrad and Kiev. Competitions in bullet shooting took place in Mytishchi at the shooting range called "Dynamo".
These games are also known for the fact that more than fifty countries boycotted this Olympics, since Soviet troops were introduced into Afghanistan a year earlier. But some athletes from these states came to the capital of the USSR to perform under the Olympic flag. This boycott is one of the reasons for the reciprocal protest of the Soviet Union, which took place at the next Summer Olympics in 1984, held in Los Angeles. These features are one of the aspects that made the 1980 Olympics memorable. The medal count tops the list of memorable events as it was truly unique.
Capital of the Olympics
The decision on where this important event will take place was made in Vienna in 1974. The idea to hold the games in Moscow first came from Sergei Pavlov, chairman of the USSR Sports Committee, in 1969. But at that time, the voting results indicated that the Olympics would be held in Montreal. A few years later, Pavlov managed to convince the country's leadership to nominate the capital of the USSR again. And at that time, the victory remained with Moscow. The choice was between her and Los Angeles. But with a margin of 19 votes, the capital of the USSR won. For the first time, the Summer Olympic Games were held in a socialist country.
Path of the Olympic Flame
On June 21st, the fire moved out of Greece (Athens) and five days later was in Bulgaria, in Sofia. After that he went to Bucharest, where he arrived on the 1st of July. Then, on the 5th, he ended up in the Moldavian SSR, where he crossed the border of the USSR, ending up in Chisinau on July 6th. On July 11, the Olympic flame passed through Kiev, from where it went to Kharkov. Then his path lay through Tula and Podolsk directly to Moscow, the capital of the 1980 Olympic Games.
Results of the 1980 Olympics: medals, table
As mentioned before, the games of that year distinguished themselves in many ways. The 1980 Olympics shocked everyone. The medal standings of that year were really memorable. But there were also some other interesting features. For example, the youngest participant was 13 years old (Jorge Lima), and the oldest was 70 years old! 80 countries participated, from which 5253 participants came in total. Among them - 1120 women and 4133 men. The athlete-winner of that Olympics was the gymnast Alexander Dityatin, who then received eight awards.
Now about the medals of the 1980 Olympics. The USSR received the most awards - 41 medals, of which 15 gold, 14 silver and 12 bronze. Next comes the GDR, which won less - 29 pieces. Of these, 11 gold, 8 silver and 10 bronze. Next, with a huge margin of 19 medals, is Great Britain, which received 4 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. It is worth noting that these Summer Olympic Games are remembered for this medal count, since such a large gap in the number of medals won is rare. Thanks to this, these Games entered the history of world sports.
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