The , officially known as the '''Games of the XXII Olympiad''', were held in
Moscow ,
USSR . Another candidate in the bid to organize the Olympics was
Los Angeles . The choice between them was made on
October 23 ,
1974 on the 75th
IOC Session . Moscow defeated
Los Angeles by 39 votes to 20.
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 . Eighty nations did participate - the lowest number since 1956 .
- Major broadcasters of the Games were ''USSR State TV and Radio'', Eurovision and Intervision . NBC , which was thought to be another major one, cancelled its coverage in response to the U.S.-boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, and became a minor broadcaster as the network did air highlights and recaps of the games on a regular basis. In Mexico, Televisa provided full coverage of the games as did Canada's CTV .
- According to the Official Report, submitted to the IOC by the NOC of the USSR , total expenditures for the preparations for and staging of the Games were 862.7 million Rubles , total revenues being 744.8 million roubles.
- A Series Of Commemorative Coins was released in the USSR in 1977-1980 to commemorate the event. It consisted of five Platinum Coin s, six Gold Coin s, 28 Silver Coin s and six Copper-nickel coins.
- Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin won a medal in each of the eight Gymnastics events, including three titles.
- Vladimir Salnikov ( USSR ) won three gold medals in the Swimming pool. His time in the 1500 metre freestyle was the first below 15 minutes.
- Belarusian Uladzimir Parfianovich of the USSR won 3 gold medals in Canoeing .
- Soviet sailor Valentyn Mankin won a gold medal in "Star" class. He won Olympic champion titles in "Finn" and "Tempest" classes before, and as of 2005 remains the only sailor in Olympic history to win gold medals in three different classes.
- Ethiopia n Muruse Yefter won the 5000 metre and 10000 metre athletics double, emulating Lasse Viren 's 1976 performance.
- Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany won his second consecutive Marathon gold.
- Women's , India , Poland , Czechoslovakia , USSR , Zimbabwe . The gold medal was won by the team of Zimbabwe .
- East Germany dominated Rowing , winning eleven of the fourteen titles.
- Teófilo Stevenson of Cuba became the first Boxer to win three consecutive Olympic titles.
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See the medal winners, ordered by sport:
(''host nation in .'')
