1980 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXII Olympiad

Host city	Moscow, Soviet Union
Nations participating	80
Athletes participating	5,179 (4,064 men, 1,115 women)
Events	203 in 21 sports
Opening ceremony	19 July
Closing ceremony	3 August
Officially opened by	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev
Athlete's Oath	Nikolay Andrianov
Judge's Oath	Aleksandr Medved
Olympic Torch	Sergei Belov
Stadium	Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium
Summer:
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Winter:
<  Lake Placid 1980 Sarajevo 1984  >

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. They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country, and the only Summer Games to be held in such a country until the 2008 edition in Beijing, China. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin.

Led by the United States at the insistence of US President Jimmy Carter, 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games under the Olympic Flag. This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The only two cities to bid for the 1980 Summer Olympics were Moscow and Los Angeles. The choice between them was made on 23 October 1974 in the 75th IOC Session in Vienna, Austria. Los Angeles would eventually host the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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