And in the new century, large events, whether it is the championship of football or the international contest of the song, remain in a considerable degree of the political confrontation arena. And 40 years ago, in the period of acute struggle of ideologies, it was much worse. But Olympiad-80 in Moscow not only in a positive key was remembered for decades, but also for a long time became a symbol of unity and friendship.
On interesting facts associated with the first in the USSR of the Olympic Games - in the material 24cm.
Competitors
In the struggle for the title of the capital of the Olympic Games of the 1980s, American Los Angeles was opposed to the voting of the IOC members with a score of 39 against 20. A similar solution was a truly significant - Olympiad-80 became the first one in the territory of the countries of the Socialist Camp.Up to this point, the most popular event on which guests from other states were going to the USSR remained in 1957 World Festival of Youth and Students. However, only 34 thousand visitors from abroad were present on the latter. In the case of the games, it was already about hundreds of thousands of foreign representatives - according to official data, during the Olympics of the USSR, more than 5 million people visited the USSR Olympics.
It is curious that Los Angeles added to the number of applicants for the Olympics at the last moment - a couple of hours before the end of receiving applications. Prior to this, Moscow remained the only candidate for the title of the Olympic capital.
Called circumstances
Among the remarkable events associated with the 1980 Olympics, which happened to the Italian judoist named Ezio Gamba.
Italy has banned its military personnel to athletes. So Ezio Gamba was for the sake of participation in the games forced to complete the military career, quitting from the ranks of the Italian Armed Forces. However, the Olympiad-80 became a triumph for judoist - the athlete won the gold medal.
On earth and in the sky
The Olympic Games of 1980 entered the story not only as the most honest, because during their holding in IOC there was not a single complaint or protest, but also as the safest.Moreover, guests to ensure peace of mind and order did not catch the eye - the 11th department specially created in the KGB, who was responsible for the prevention of "subversive shares" by representatives of the likely enemy and criminality during the Games period, tried.
Unprecedented measures were taken by the Soviet Party not only in ensuring security. There was even a party tip even the weather. The Hydrometeorological Institute set the task to collect and analyze information for the whole century. Relying on the received information, and decided on the dates: the opening of the Games were scheduled for July 19, and closing - on August 3.
Goodbye, our gentle Misha!
The symbol of the coming Olympiad chose the whole country. Among the possible options were parsley, horse-hunchback and matryoshka. When the newspaper "Soviet Sport" arranged a survey of the population, over 40 thousand letters came to the editorial office, most of which were asked to make a talisman of a bear drawn by illustrator Viktor Chizhikov.
By the way, they say that the Olympic symbol flew into the sky under the sad song, landed on the outskirts of Moscow, destroying the beer stall.
Jackpot
Initially, the construction of sports facilities intended for the reception of the 1980 games, the leadership of the country assumed to spend about 400 million rubles. But due to engineering and technical errors, as well as lack of time and other resources, expenses rapidly increased to 1.5 billion.Soviet citizens helped to solve the problem with the lack of financing, or rather the Lottery "Sportoto" and "Sprint", using popularity among the population. Thanks to the money coming through the lottery cash regulations, the situation was able to correct and complete the construction of the infrastructure necessary for the Olympics.
Souvenir
The Soviet Organizing Committee seriously approached the creation of memorable attributes for the Olympics-80. This is the whole range of clothing, mostly sports, with appropriate symbolism, and bags, and diverse icons.
Not without numismatics - sets of memorable coins were released, both copper-nickel and made from precious metals. Also, the USSR, remembering the experience of the chasing of still imperial times (more specifically the first third of the XIX century), became the first country that released the Olympic rubles from platinum.
It is entertaining that if nickel coins were in the go on the territory of the Soviet Union, then the silver, gold and platinum "left" abroad, where they were sold on all sorts of auctions, where "shutting up" in the USSR.
Sounds beautiful
Overlooking the song "Goodbye, Moscow" Lion Leshchenko, who fulfilled the Olympics of the Olympics, recalled the curious version of how the game symbol turned out to cry. The artist was told that this happened because of several soldiers who fell asleep, holding pictures that form a panel with a teddy bear. A number of servicemen "shrewd up" to the director's shock, which was the reason for the appearance of famous tears.
The singer himself does not exclude that the described version of what happened is exclusively fiction, which does not cancel, however, its irony and fun, adding a little more charm to such a memorable event, which Olympiad-80 has become for residents of the USSR and other countries.