1980 Summer Olympics

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Summer Olympic Games multi-sport event

The 1980 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, marked by a large-scale boycott led by the United States during the Cold War.

Aliases (1)

1980 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament ×1

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Summer Olympic Games → multi-sport event →
alternativeEvent	Liberty Bell Classic →
alternativeEventHostCity	Philadelphia →
boycottingNation	Argentina → Canada → Chile → China → Iran → Israel → Japan → Kenya → Norway → Pakistan → Philippines → Saudi Arabia → South Korea → Thailand → Turkey → United States → West Germany →
boycottLedBy	United States →
boycottReason	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan →
boycottType	partial boycott of the Games →
bronzeMedalLeader	Soviet Union →
closingDate	1980-08-03 →
context	Cold War →
country	Soviet Union →
followedBy	1984 Summer Olympics →
goldMedalLeader	Soviet Union →
governingBody	International Olympic Committee →
hostCity	Moscow →
hostCityCountry	Moscow, Soviet Union →
hostNation	Soviet Union →
IOCPresident	Lord Killanin →
mainStadium	Luzhniki Stadium →
mascot	Misha →
mascotType	bear →
motto	Games of the New World →
notableFeature	first Olympic Games held in Eastern Europe → first Olympic Games held in a socialist country → large-scale boycott by Western-aligned countries →
numberOfAthletes	5179 →
numberOfEvents	203 →
numberOfOlympicRecords	39 →
numberOfParticipatingNations	80 →
numberOfSports	21 →
numberOfWorldRecords	36 →
officialName	Games of the XXII Olympiad →
openingDate	1980-07-19 →
organisingCommitteePresident	Ignaty Novikov NERFINISHED →
partOfSeries	Olympic Games →
precededBy	1976 Summer Olympics →
silverMedalLeader	Soviet Union →
televisionCoverage	global →
torchLighter	Sergey Belov NERFINISHED →
totalMedalLeader	Soviet Union →
year	1980 →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nadia Comăneci → Sebastian Coe →	competedIn
1976 Summer Olympics → Games of the XXI Olympiad →	followedBy
Daley Thompson → Tatyana Ovechkina →	participantIn
1984 Summer Olympics →	precededBy
Soviet Union women’s national basketball team ("1980 Summer Olympics women’s basketball tournament") →	wonOlympicGold