By [notice noticeType=”approved” ]Opening Ceremony Moscow 1980. View of the delegations standing in front of the Misha mascot created by the public holding up boards | Photo: BR Archive[/notice]
Video: Summer Games of the XXII Olympiads
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Games of the XXII Olympiad
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
In addition, the yachting events were held in Tallinn, and some of the preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held in Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk. The 1980 Games were the first to be staged in Eastern Europe.
Led by the United States with the insistence of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games, under the Olympic Flag.
This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Feb 1980: The Olympic Flame during the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, NY, USA. Mandatory Credit: Tony Duffy /Allsport
Aug 1980: Steve Ovett, #279 and Sebastian Coe, #254, both of Great Britain, trail Jurgen Straub, #338 of East Germany in the 1500 metres final at the 1980 Olympic Games, Moscow. Mandatory Credit: Allsport UK /Allsport
Moscow 1980-TALLBERG Peter and TALLBERG Mathias (FIN),father and son.
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