1980 Moscow Olympics Quiz

1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia

• The 1980 Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, Soviet Union, from 19 July to 3 August 1980.
• The games were the first to be held in an Eastern Bloc country and the only Summer Olympics to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country until the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
• The United States led a boycott of the games, and 66 countries boycotted the games entirely due to the Soviet–Afghan War.
• The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals, with the USSR and East Germany winning 127 out of 203 available golds.
• Eighty nations were represented at the games, the smallest number since 1956.
• The only two cities to bid for the 1980 Summer Olympics were Moscow and Los Angeles, and Los Angeles would eventually host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• Several alternative events were held outside of the Soviet Union, and some athletes from boycotting countries participated in the games under the Olympic Flag.
• There were 203 events, and 36 world records, 39 European records, and 74 Olympic records were set at the games.
• Although no athletes were caught doping at the games, many athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs, and a KGB colonel stated that the agency's officers had posed as anti-doping authorities from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to undermine doping tests.
• Major broadcasters of the games were USSR State TV and Radio, Eurovision, and Intervision.
• The games attracted five million spectators and cost US$1.35 billion, with total revenues being US$231 million.
• The outturn cost of the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics was US$6.3 billion in 2015 dollars.
• Both the opening and closing ceremonies were shown in Yuri Ozerov's 1981 film Oh, Sport – You Are The World!