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1980 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXII Olympiad, in Moscow, USSR

PlaceSummer Olympic Games edition international sporting eventQ8450

Also known as Juegos de la XXII Olimpiada · 1980 Moscow · Moscow 1980

Country: Soviet Union

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The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially branded as Moscow 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The games were the first to be staged in an Eastern Bloc country. They were also the only Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state until the 2008 Summer Olympics held in China. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin before he was succeeded by Juan Antonio Samaranch shortly afterward.

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Followed by: 1984 Summer Olympics
Follows: 1976 Summer Olympics
Officially opened by: Leonid Brezhnev
Oath made by: Nikolai Andrianov
Aleksandr Medved
Torch lit by: Sergei Belov
Mascot: Misha
Edition number: 22
Started: July 19, 1980
Ended: August 3, 1980
Website: olympics.com/en/olympic-games/moscow-1980 language: English
Location: Moscow
Participant: Soviet Union at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Belgium at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Yugoslavia at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Date: 1980
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modern pentathlon at the 1980 Summer Olympics
water polo at the 1980 Summer Olympics
weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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Number of participants: 80 counts: Olympic delegation
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5,179 counts: Olympic athletics competitor
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Has part(s) of the class: Olympic sporting event quantity: 203
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Sports season of league or competition: Summer Olympic Games follows: 1976 Summer Olympics · followed by: 1984 Summer Olympics
Official name: Spiller vun der XXII. Olympiad
Sport: Olympic sport

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