1980 Summer Olympics | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:09 1 Host city selection
00:01:35 2 Participation overview and boycott
00:04:09 3 Events, records and drug tests overview
00:05:37 4 Media and broadcasting
00:07:14 5 Spectators and commemoration
00:07:48 6 Budget
00:08:13 7 Cost
00:09:34 8 Opening ceremony
00:09:43 9 Highlights of the different events
00:09:53 9.1 Archery
00:10:49 9.2 Athletics
00:16:01 9.3 Basketball
00:16:46 9.4 Boxing
00:17:23 9.5 Canoeing
00:17:51 9.6 Cycling
00:18:37 9.7 Diving
00:20:15 9.8 Equestrian
00:20:46 9.9 Fencing
00:21:08 9.10 Football
00:21:32 9.11 Gymnastics
00:22:46 9.12 Handball
00:23:09 9.13 Field hockey
00:23:49 9.14 Judo
00:24:02 9.15 Modern Pentathlon
00:24:21 9.16 Rowing
00:24:52 9.17 Sailing
00:25:21 9.18 Shooting
00:25:42 9.19 Swimming
00:28:26 9.20 Volleyball
00:28:41 9.21 Water polo
00:28:58 9.22 Weightlifting
00:29:52 9.23 Wrestling
00:30:13 10 Closing ceremony
00:31:06 11 Venues
00:33:04 12 Medals awarded
00:33:18 13 Calendar
00:33:30 14 Medal count
00:33:47 15 List of participating countries and regions
00:34:13 16 See also
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The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Russian: И́гры XXII Олимпиа́ды, tr. Igry XXII Olimpiady), was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia.The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe, and remain the only Summer Olympics held there, as well as the first Olympic Games to be held in a Slavic language-speaking country. They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a communist country until 2008 in China and the second in a developing country after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin.
Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games – the smallest number since 1956. Led by the United States, 66 countries boycotted the games entirely because of the Soviet–Afghan War. Some athletes from some of the boycotting countries (they are not included in the list of 66 countries that boycotted the games entirely) participated in the games under the Olympic Flag. The Soviet Union would later boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics.