Games of the XXII Olympiad
Author: Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 554
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Author: Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roberta Conlon
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2015-11-18
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1987944194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Olympics are meant to be a celebration of sportsmanship and fellowship among nations, but they have sometimes fell short of that goal. XXII Olympiad, the twentieth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the story of one of the most politicized Games ever held: Moscow 1980.In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, prompting the United States to lead a 65-nation boycott of the Moscow Games. In spite of the absence of many of the world's great athletes, Moscow still produced legendary Olympic champions, like the great Cuban heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson, who became the first boxer to win three consecutive gold medals; and the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who added two golds and two silvers in Moscow to take her personal medal total to 12. The absence of many top athletes also opened the door for others to make history, like sprinter Allan Wells, who won the first gold medal in the 100 metres for Great Britain since 1924.The book then turns its focus to the 1984 Winter Games of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It profiles the most dominant athlete of those Games, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi of Finland, who won all three individual golds in cross-country skiing. Sarajevo also saw the British ice dancing pair Torvil and Dean post perfect scores for artistic impression in their gold-medal performance, a feat never duplicated; as well as the participation of the first black African Olympic skier, Lamine Gueye of Senegal.Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee, called The Olympic Century, "e;The most comprehensive history of the Olympic games ever published"e;.
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 252
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Published: 1980
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis document presents the cultural program of the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980.
Author: Roberta Conlan
Publisher: World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781888383201
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 652
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Igor Orlov
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1980 Olympiad in Moscow (the first Olympiad in Eastern Europe and the socialist state) is viewed through the prism of the successes and failures of the cultural and sports diplomacy of the Soviet state. Olympics-80 as a kind of mega-project "developed socialism" promoted (albeit temporarily) not only to strengthening the position of the Soviet Union in the international arena (especially in the background of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), but also unity of Soviet citizens in the face of "Western threat". The situation was somewhat more complicated with attempts to use the Olympic project to strengthen the socialist camp.The source base of the research was the materials of the State archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian state archive of socio-political history and the Central archive of Moscow, as well as the published documents of the Russian state archive of modern history.It is shown that, despite the boycott of the Olympics, its consequences did not have a particularly strong impact on the development of sports ties and international tourism in the USSR. For example, in 1980, at the suggestion of the delegation of the USSR, the participants of the world conference on tourism, when adopting the Manila Declaration on world tourism, included in the Declaration all the initiatives of the Soviet delegation. And since 1982, the process of restoring international sports contacts began.
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis newsletter, published by the Organising Committee for the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, contains information on the preparation of the Games, such as: the Olympic sports, the medical services, the Olympic sites, the official meetings, travelling to USSR, etc.
Author: Jeux olympiques d'été Comité d'organisation
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 70
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