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	1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk.
		Although approximately a half of the countries, which boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics, participated in these ones, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in a protest to the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		In response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, NBC, which was slated to provide coverage of the games, canceled its coverage, but the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1980_Summer_Olympics (427 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1980 Summer Olympics
		Although approximately half of the countries which boycotted 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 60 countries in protest at the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
		The Judo competition at the 1980 Summer Olympics was the first time that the medal count was not dominated by Japan, as the country joined the boycott of the games because of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
		Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by ten events (all — mens individual), held between July 20 and July 30 at the Izmailovo Sports Palace, situated alongside the Izmailovo Park (eastern part of Moscow).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1980-Summer-Olympics (3747 words)

	Modern Pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Modern Pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by two events (both for men): Individual competition and Team competition.
		As usual in Olympic Modern Pentathlon, one competition was held and each competitor's score was included to the Individual competition event results table and was also added to his teammates' scores to be included to the Team competition event results table.
		Remark:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1980.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Modern_Pentathlon_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics (258 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		Although they didn't get any medals, the People's Republic of China returned to the Olympics Games after the IOC agreed to designate the ROC "Chinese Taipei".
		Ulrich Wehling of the East Germany and Irina Rodnina won their respective events for the third time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics (278 words)

	Olympics During the Cold War (1980 and 1984) - 1980 and 1984 Olympics
		The Olympics were used as ways to express international politics, while the other side was used to organize boycotts against the enemies in the war.
		In the 1980 games, Carter’s use of the Olympics as a political bargaining chip was a direct reaction to the Soviet Union’s movement of tanks into Afghanistan in December of 1979.
		In January 1980, President Carter warned international politicians that in retaliation to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United states would withdraw from the Moscow Olympic games that were due to commence in July.
	www.piedmontcommunities.us /servlet/go_ProcServ/dbpage=page&gid=01341001151089993247848771 (1360 words)

	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
		It was widely regarded as a retaliatory move for the 1980 boycott.
		The '84 Olympics were a bonanza for the United States in the medal count as well.
		Buerkle accepts that politics is part of the Olympics -- "It's the way they've always been," he says -- and believes that the games can be a positive political force, as with a 28-year ban against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/20/spotlight (815 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Moscow 1980
		While chosen to host the 1980 Summer Games of the XXII Olympiad on October 23, 1974, the IOC was all too aware of the difficulties that such a choice may incur.
		The Olympic movement still fell prey to politics when the Games were held in Moscow, the first Eastern European city to host an Olympiad.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that the Games should not be concerned with politics and looked down upon the United States' actions.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/22moscow.html (522 words)

	webXtra News: Winter Olympics 25th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid were host to perhaps the greatest Olympic performance ever, in Eric Heiden’s winning of five gold medals in speed skating.
		Gene Deutscher carried the Olympic flame for 136 of the flame's 1,000-mile journey from Virginia to Lake Placid in the winter of 1980.
		The Olympic Regional Development Authority is marking the 25th anniversary of the Lake Placid Olympic Winter Games with special events and festivities through Feb. 27.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2005/webXtra/olympic_anniversary.htm (945 words)

	1980 Moscow Olympics boycott demands perspective
		It was the summer of 1980 and the Moscow Olympics.
		"1980 is one of the things I use now in speeches about the Olympic movement," said Hawaii Athletic Director Herman Frazier, a former ASU associate athletic director and a 1976 gold medalist who was part of the 4x400 relay that would have run in Moscow.
		In 1980, however, there were only medals and a smaller window at winning one for athletes planning on other careers.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0719moscow0719.html (1205 words)

	Moscow celebrates 1980 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MOSCOW -- Russians commemorated on Wednesday the 20th anniversary of the opening of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, seen in the country as an unqualified success despite a debilitating boycott by Western countries.
		More than 60 countries, led by the United States, stayed away from Moscow in 1980 in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, robbing the Games of some of the top name athletes of the day.
		The Moscow Olympics, the first held in a communist country, were intended to underscore the achievements of a great athletic -- and political -- superpower.
	www.nadiacomaneci.com /library/article186.htm (468 words)

	USA Basketball: Womens Olympic History -- 1980
		Trials for the 1980 Olympic Team were held March 24-28 in Colorado Springs in two stages.
		Knowing they would be denied their opportunity to compete for the Olympic gold in Moscow, ABAUSA and the USA Women's Olympic Basketball Team elected to go ahead with training and to compete in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
		Traveling on to Varna, Bulgaria for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, 22 countries participated in the tourney that would determine the five countries that would qualify for the 1980 Olympics.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/woly_1980.html (624 words)

	miracle on ice
		On February 23, 2005, a tribute to the athletes of the 1980 Olympics called “A Night of Miracles, Memories and Magic” was held at the 1980 ice rink where team U.S.A brought home the gold.
		The night was dedicated to the hockey team and the other 1980 Olympic athletes.
		Part of the night was filled with performances by various ice skaters; some from the 1980 Olympics, as well as other younger skaters who compete on a national level.
	www.apnmag.com /spring_2005/olympicteam.htm (1200 words)

	Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics was represented by eight events.
		They were held between July 22 and July 31 at the fencing hall of the Sports Complex of the Central Sports Club of the Army (north-western part of Moscow).
		Country names in the medal table are given in the form they were used in official documents of the IOC in 1980
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fencing_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics (230 words)

	CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History: 1980 Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The modern Olympics have had their share of boycotts, but nothing approaching the magnitude of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980.
		Number of national delegations that marched in Opening Ceremony under Olympic flag instead of national flag: 16 During the opening ceremony 65 delegations paraded behind their national flag with 16 exchanging their national colours for the Olympic flag, a signal of peace.
		He then became the first French Olympic judo champion, in the heavyweight division, and added a silver medal to his tally in the all categories division.
	www.cbc.ca /olympics/1980.html (1542 words)

	1980 olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You don't need to know anything about hockey to be moved by this hourlong documentary about one of the greatest upsets in sports history: the United States' defeat of the vaunted Russian Olympic hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
		They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century.
		This is the story of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that made sports history by taking the gold medal in hockey away from the Soviets.....
	www.punching-bag-exercises.com /kwp/1980_olympics.html (452 words)

	Olympics :
		This commemorative pewter belt buckle, designed and copyrighted by Sid Bell, was cast in 1978 by the Pilgrim Pewter Co. in Tully, NY especially for the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid.
		This outstanding Modern Commemorative Olympic $5.00 Gold Coin has been independently certified by MCCS and given a grade of PR70 Cameo which means it is a flawless coin.
		It is a medal made out of rubber material with the Olympic logo in a red maple leaf with 1976 Canadian Olympics and Olympiques Canadien on it.
	search.rubylane.com /collectibles?id=54&cache=184963e20f393e3&db=_rlcollectibles (1055 words)

	IDS: Coach recalls Olympics that weren't (Campus, 09/25/2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Then-president Jimmy Carter called for a boycott of the 1980 Olympics to protest the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
		In the spring of 1980, Carter announced the boycott.
		Just as the U.S. Olympic qualifiers saw their names go up on the wall at this year's trials in Indianapolis, Kirchner remembers the announcement of the 1980 team.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=660 (955 words)

	1980 Moscow Olympics
		The Moscow Olympics hockey competition was played on poligras fields laid at the Dynamo and Young Pioneers clubs.
		This huge victory over Tanzania was the second biggest score in Olympic hockey, after the 24-1 victory by India over USA in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
		The 16 goals scored by centre-forward Surinder Singh Sodhi in the 1980 Moscow Olympics is the highest tally by an Indian in an Olympic hockey competition.
	www.bharatiyahockey.org /olympics/golden/1980.htm (716 words)

	[Olympic Preview] Athletes remember 1980 Summer Olympics boycott - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was unable to compete in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics because of a U.S. boycott but won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
		Vidmar now serves as one of the chairs on a summit for summer Olympic sports, which has enabled him to be in Athens, Greece, this week to evaluate the future of men's gymnastics.
		The 1980 Olympics may have never been for the United States, but they are not forgotten.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?ID=29817 (1311 words)

	‘Lost Generation’ looks back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		McGrath and the rest of the athletes received a congressional medal and an Olympic outfit, neither of which she was able to wear on a medal stand.
		In 1980, McGrath was 22 years old, and it was the third time she had tried to make an Olympic team.
		Although Ashford had experienced the Olympics in 1976 in Montreal, where she placed fifth in the 100 meters, the 1980 Games was supposed to be her moment of glory.
	www.nadiacomaneci.com /library/article205.htm (2658 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 1980 Olympics were about unabashed patriotism and old-fashioned American grit.
		Seems the organizers of the Salt Lake City Olympics have drawn parallels between this year's women's team and the hockey legends of 1980, and Schlussel is not about to let them get away with it.
		There's no market for their "product." Yet, unlike [the] sponsorless, struggling 1980 team, the women are among the most subsidized athletes, a la the WNBA -- another affirmative action version of sports.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/webfeatures/2002/02/berger-n-02-08.html (319 words)

	1980 Olympics Usa Hockey Team Review - Online news and more relevant resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.spermatic.com /topics/icehockey/1980-olympics-usa-hockey-team.html (559 words)

	CNN Interactive: Video Almanac - 1980
		CNN goes on the air for the first time in June 1980, with Jimmy Carter in the White House and the United States reeling from a protracted hostage drama involving Iran.
		Citing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter tells a group of American athletes that the U.S. won't be sending a team to the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
		As the Iranian hostage crisis drags into its second year, 52 Americans are still held captive by the new regime in Tehran, with no resolution in sight.
	www.cnn.com /resources/video.almanac/1980 (302 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Melnik was a member of the Israeli judo team at the 1976 Montreal Games, competing in the 70-kg division (light-middleweight); he did not advance past the preliminaries.
		Melnik was the Israeli National team coach at the 1984 Olympics.
		After retiring in 1980, Melnik became the Israeli National judo coach, a position he held until 1985.
	www.jewsinsports.org /olympics_profile.asp?ID=565 (268 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		Gerd Wessig became the first male high jumper to break the world record at the Olympics and swimmer Vladimir Salnikov broke the 15-minute barrier for the 1,500m.
		In adramatic confrontation, runners Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe split the 800 and 1,500m.
		Moscow 19 July 1980, human's pyramids and mosaic.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1980 (233 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| Olympic Gold \| Celebrating the 1980 Winter Games
		Fratianne joined with Citizens Bank, the Olympic Regional Development Authority and Governor George Pataki to announce that from Feb. 11 through Feb. 27, Lake Placid will re-ignite the excitement of the 1980 Olympics.
		Some of the events will include a re-lighting of the 1980 Olympic torch and all day activities at Whiteface Mountain.
		So we've obviously established that this whole story is about remembering the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, but we can't fail to mention the governor's attempt to get the 2012 Summer Olympics to New York City.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/special_coverage/olympic_gold?ArID=116865&SecID=261 (303 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
		Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
		By the time the fortnight had ended, the United States team had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in hockey history by defeating the Russians in the semifinals and winning the gold medal after defeating Finland 4-2 in their final game.
		Before 1980, the United States formed their Olympic hockey teams hastily and then expected them to compete in the tournament.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/tov/2419100902/p1/article.jhtml (852 words)

	ESPN.com - ESPN 25 - 1: USA upsets vaunted Soviets in 1980 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brooks, a cold, complex, distant perfectionist from the University of Minnesota, was meticulous in the manner in which he choose this Olympic team, opting for durable and resilient players with big hearts and dogged determination.
		Anticipation in the Olympic Field House is incomparable as the U.S. and Soviet teams circle the ice in the semifinal showdown.
		The feeling among Americans and the global hockey world is that the Americans have performed wonderfully, capturing the hearts of a country in turmoil, but that this is the night their dreams would be obliterated.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/espn25/story?page=moments/1 (1228 words)

	Miracle DVD Release \| Disney \| Ice Hockey \| Kurt Russell \| 2004 \| 1980 Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tired of being humiliated year after year, the Olympic committee recruits hockey coach Herb Brooks (played by Kurt Russell) to put together, and coach, the US Men's Olympic hockey team.
		You get to see audition tapes from a bunch of the main characters, see what the real 1980 US Olympic team players think of the movie and there are a ton of funny outtakes too.
		They chatted about the process that he and the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team went through in order to win the gold medal.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p4123.htm (499 words)

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