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Moscow 1980
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, are an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprise of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent at least one color of the participating country’s national flag. Moscow 1980 is also one of that Olympic. It is summer Olympic XXVIII game.
Moscow 1980 Olympics games included 80 Nations, 5,179 athletes including 1,115 women and 4,064 men, 203 events and 5,615 media. Moscow 1980 Olympics was started on 19 July 1980 with USSR as the host country.
Moscow 1980 Olympics’ official opening was done by President Leonid Brezhnev and by lighting of the Olympic flame by Sergei Belov the legendary basketball player. The Olympic oath was taken by Nikolay Andrianov of gymnastics and official oath was taken by Aleksandr Medved of wrestling. This Olympics games included 21 sports like as aquatics, archery, athletics, basketball, boxing, canoe or kayak, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
Aleksandr Dityatin earned medals in every men's gymnastics event to become the only athlete ever to win eight medals in one Olympics. Super-heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson became the first boxer to win the same division three times. 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.
The closing ceremony was conducted on 03 August 1980 in Moscow with USSR achieving 80 Gold, 69 Silver, 46 Bronze medals and placed them in the leading position that year.
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