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  1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
The yachting events were held in Tallinn; preliminary matches and the quarter-finals of the football (soccer) tournament were held, besides Moscow, at the stadiums of Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk.
Although approximately half of the 24 countries which boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics participated in these, the Games were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States followed by 64 other countries in protest at the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow_Olympics   (624 words)

  
 2012 Summer Olympic bids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Olympic X Plan was the main concept proposed by the NYC2012 Bid team; two primary transportation lines would have strung the several individual clusters in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn together.
However, the New York bid was revived with the utilization of a new Mets Ballpark as the primary venue for athletics and the ceremonies.
Moscow represented Russia in the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2012_Summer_Olympic_bids   (1703 words)

  
 Moscow celebrates 1980 Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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.
The Moscow Olympics, the first held in a communist country, were intended to underscore the achievements of a great athletic -- and political -- superpower.
Smirnov, who spearheaded Moscow's Olympic preparations at the time, admitted that politics had dictated the Soviet decision to keep its athletes away from the 1984 Games in Los Angeles -- now seen as a mistake.
www.nadiacomaneci.com /library/article186.htm   (468 words)

  
 Architectural Record | News | Olympics 2012 | Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Among the remaining contenders for the 2012 Olympics, Moscow was the most recent host to the games.
As in the 1980 Olympics, the Luzhniki Olympic Complex and its Olympic Park will be at the core of the games, hosting opening and closing ceremonies and many sporting events.
Planners tout Moscow’s experience with major sporting events and the value of holding the games in the “New Russia.” 2012 will also mark the hundredth anniversary of Russia’s participation in the Olympics.
www.architecturalrecord.com /news/olympics2012/moscow.asp   (496 words)

  
 Third Theater Olympics in Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Moscow Theatre Olympics will be held at the turn of the two centuries and the two millennia.
The Olympics will become the demonstration of results of theatre development in the 20th century in a broad variety of forms: from the experiments of avant-garde to folk street shows.
By showing the crowning achievements of the world stage, by showing the modern theatre at the Olympic heights we are helping the national theatre, first and foremost the young generation of theatre practitioners who will take hold of the 21st century stage, to measure their art against the world theatrical culture evolution pattern.
www.chekhovfest.ru /ENG/olymp.html   (295 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Thailand competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
In Thailand's first appearance in Olympic archery, one woman and two men represented the nation.
After not competing in the Olympics in 1980, Thailand returned to the archery competition with two men.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Olympics   (142 words)

  
 2012 Olympics - Why Moscow? - Pravda.Ru
Moscow competes with London, Paris, Madrid and New York to be chosen as host city for the Olympic Games in 2012.
Due to the historic importance of sport in the recent history of Russia, Moscow's sports complexes are second to none in terms of readiness as is the experience of Russians in staging sports events.
The fact that Moscow already has the basic infrastructures necessary for the Games means that major construction works do not have to be performed and therefore it presents itself as a simple, uncomplicated and economic venue.
english.pravda.ru /opinion/columnists/12-03-2005/7872-olympics-0   (479 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Olympic boycotts
If they won medals, those athletes were greeted on the medal stand by the Olympic hymn and flag, rather than their national anthem and flag.
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)

  
 1980 Moscow Olympics
The Moscow Olympics hockey competition was played on poligras fields laid at the Dynamo and Young Pioneers clubs.
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.
For the generation of Indians born after the mid-1960s, the Moscow Olympics hockey title remains their only link to India's golden Olympic past.
www.bharatiyahockey.org /olympics/golden/1980.htm   (716 words)

  
 1980 Moscow Olympics - Moscow Stop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Rees (1980) Moscow Olympics - to be or not to be?
Moscow Olympics - to be or not to be?
Before the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States Olympic hockey team was not expected to compete for a medal.
www.ahabcbc.ca /1980-moscow-olympics.html   (414 words)

  
 Olympics :
This set of five (5) BC comic strip character placemats commemorates the 1972 Olympics, which were certainly notable for their political events.
This little bear is from the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.Famous for their dancing bears (I think they are trying to cut back on this animal cruelty).The foam bear is flocked brown and has an Olympic metal symbol at his waist.
This green sponge whale is flocked and has the Olympic ribbon wrapped around his body and the Olympic entwined circles symbol attached to the ribbons.He is good clean condition and is 8 inches long.Great vintage collectible.
search.rubylane.com /collectibles?id=54&cache=eda993e1f83c60a&...   (1176 words)

  
 1980 Olympics
They were also plagued by charges of rigged judging and poor sportsmanship by Moscow fans who, without the Americans around, booed the Poles and East Germans unmercifully.
Olympics less than gold in NY; WCBS-TV is first Olympics station not to win total-day sweeps race in top market since 1980.(television......
Historical overview of the Paralympics, Special Olympics, and Deaflympics.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0114780.html   (469 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)

  
 Radio National - The Sports Factor - 30/07/2004
The Olympic movement was split, and the athletes discovered themselves in the middle of some very hostile crossfire.
On 19th April at the AGM of the Australian Olympic Federation, the sporting associations decided to delay by a month the decision on whether to compete, leaving the final vote to the executive of the AOF.
The government had stressed to the executive of the Olympic Federation that the decision being made today was not one involving sport and sport alone, it was one involving the future of all Australians especially of young Australians.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s1165394.htm   (4173 words)

  
 Chechen Warlord Basayev Says He Would Target Moscow Olympics - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Moscow is the capital of a warring state and this city is a zone of legitimate military activities for our mujahideen (holy warriors),” Basayev said.
Moscow is to close off the city centre for an open-air party to mark the vote on Wednesday, and a giant screen on Red Square will allow Russians to watch it live.
The Olympics is dedicated to peace and sportsmanship but has been targeted before when Palestinian militants seized 11 Israeli athletes and coaches in the Munich Games of 1972.
www.mosnews.com /news/2005/07/06/basayevgames.shtml   (970 words)

  
 1980 MOSCOW OLYMPIC GAMES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Several western governments, including Australia, saw the Moscow Olympics as a useful tool to vent their anger without having to make any decisions which could harm their countries economically.
They put pressure on their local Olympic federations to boycott the Moscow Olympics, the first to be held behind the so-called Iron Curtain.
The Australian Olympic Federation was split down the middle.
abc.net.au /olympics_1996/game1980.htm   (577 words)

  
 1980 Moscow Olympics boycott demands perspective
It was the summer of 1980 and the Moscow Olympics.
Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the Olympics were a Cold War rivalry, us-against-them.
Whatever happens, Frazier believes the Olympics are one way to settle some differences, and he worked to do exactly that in Athens.
www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0719moscow0719.html   (1107 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Moscow kaleidoscope
Moscow will have the most up-to-date sports basis by 2012 and meet all the requirements for hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics," Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov said during the Olympic assembly Friday.
President of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev is confident that holding the 2012 Olympics in Moscow will give a powerful impetus to development of physical culture and sports in this country.
She graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and is a candidate of economic sciences.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/05/26/47451.html   (2189 words)

  
 RIA Novosti - Sports
09-07-2005 22:05 MOSCOW, July 9 (RIA Novosti) -Russia is in the lead in the semi-final of the Federation Cup between the ladies' tennis teams of Russia and the United States, which is being held in Moscow's Olimpiiski sports complex.
Five cities - London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris - are bidding for the Olympic, and all are sending some of their top sportsmen and women in a last-minute bid to gain potentially crucial votes.
21-06-2005 16:05 MOSCOW, June 21 (RIA Novosti sports commentator Mikhail Smirnov) - The first contestant in the 2006 Expedition Trophy, a car race scheduled along the route from Murmansk in northwestern Russia to Vladivostok in the Far East, next February 23-March 8, was selected in Dmitrov, a town near Moscow, today.
www.en.rian.ru /sports/20050709   (1096 words)

  
 Russian Gold Coins USSR
In more recent times, most of the gold coins have been roubles or multiples of roubles, including chervonetz which are equivalent to 10 roubles.
Numismatically, one of the most important events of this period was the 22nd Olympiad held in Moscow in 1980.
Olympic Velodrome on Reverse of USSR 100 Roubles of 1979
www.taxfreegold.co.uk /ussr.html   (228 words)

  
 Moscow Olympics - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
ASICS Limber Up Moscow is the shoe that could have taken the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games by storm.
Political Olympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the 1980 U.S. Boycott
A mysterious entity, "Alyosha", is threatening a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games; the candidate may be vulnerable to scandal which could set off...
www.nextag.com /moscow-olympics/search-html   (286 words)

  
 othertimelines.com :: View topic - Timeline 635- U.S. Goes to Moscow Olympics
Far from being the glorious affirmation of Communist superiority Brezhnev had hoped for, the Moscow Olympics instead turn into a fl eye on the face of Soviet international prestige.
Abroad, Brezhnev is harshly criticized both for imposing martial law and for kicking US athletes out of Moscow before the closing ceremonies; at home, the martial law declaration sparks off a wave of anti-government demonstrations similar to the ones which preceded the ill-fated Hungarian uprising of 1956 and the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
But Magic and Larry (whose response is definitely in character) were already in the NBA, and thus ineligible for the Olympics under the rules then in effect.
www.othertimelines.com /msgboard/index.php?showtopic=587   (545 words)

  
 Moscow, 1980 Olympics
These were the first Games to be held in a communist country.
Due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter called upon the U.S. Olympic Committee to boycott the Games.
The Olympic Charter requires such committees to "resist all pressures of any kind whatsoever, whether of a political, religious or economic nature," but theory and practice diverge.
www.topendsports.com /events/summer/hosts/moscow.htm   (159 words)

  
 Olympics in Moscow — A Big Lie - COLUMN - MOSNEWS.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
From the very start, they were lied to when they were told that the final decision would be announced at 3:30pm, while the broadcast from the stage was turned off at the most important moment.
The essence of his speech, it turned out, was that Moscow had not lost, it had just fought, and would continue fighting.
A Moscow judge on Tuesday declared the Yukos oil company bankrupt, paving the way for the liquidation of what was once Russia’s biggest oil producer.
www.mosnews.com /column/2005/07/07/olymplie.shtml   (1365 words)

  
 eBay - moscow olympics, Fan Apparel Souvenirs, Topical Specialty items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Vintage Unusued 1980 Moscow Olympics USA Badge/ Patch
Lesotho MNH Moscow Olympics Strip and SS [291-296]
MOSCOW 1980 MOCKBA OLYMPIC PISTOL SHOOTING PIN PINBACK
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 R. Coat's Galleria
Only 450,000 sets were made due to little interest at that time in the west.
Olympics 1980 Moscow 5 Rouble Proof City Scene Proof
Olympics Moscow 1980 10 Rouble - Scene of Russia Proof
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 Russian Moscow Olympic Silver Crowns
Archery on Reverse of 1980 Russian Olympic 5 Roubles
Between 1977 and 1980 Russia (the USSR) issued a set of silver 10 rouble and 5 rouble silver coins to commemorate the XXII Olympiad in Moscow which took place in 1980.
If you have an enquiry about any of our Olympic Coins,, we'd be happy to answer you, but please note it may be quicker to telephone us.
www.24carat.co.uk /russiaolympicsilvercoins.html   (202 words)

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