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The sports programme for the
Games of the XXII Olympiad was
determined at the 75th Session of the
IOC (Vienna, 1974) and included: athletics,
rowing, basketball, boxing,
canoeing, cycling, equestrian sports,
fencing, football, gymnastics, weightlifting,
handball, hockey, judo, wrestling,
swimming, modern pantathlon, shooting,
archery, volleyball, yachting.
The preparations for and staging
of the Olympic competitions in these
events were the most important tasks
of the OCOG-80. The sports programme
of the Games was worked out on
several principles.
First of all, the task was to stage
the Olympic competitions on a high
organisational level in order to make
sure that all the participants had equal
opportunities to achieve the best possible
results.
Particular attention was paid to the
rules of the IOC and IFs.
Account was also taken of the rich
Soviet experience in staging major
competitions.
The technical provisions for the
Olympic events were based on the
achievements of science and practice,
in order to create the conditions
necessary for top athletes to perform
in and for maximum objective refereeing.
In turn the creation of the material
and technical groundwork of the
Games, the preparation of athletes for
the high level competitions and their
performance at the Games were to
give a fresh spurt to sport throughout
the world.
While working out the sports programme
for the Moscow Games, the
OCOG-80 took into account the experience
of the organisers of the 1972
Olympics. The experience of preparing
for and staging the 1976 Olympic
Games, held in Montreal, was also
studied and analysed.
The Sports Department was set up
within the OCOG-80 in order to plan
and organise the preparations for the
Olympic events. When selecting
specialists to work in this department
account was taken, first of all, of their
professional standards, their experience
of organising and refereeing
competitions and their prestige among
the Soviet and foreign sports public.
Among the specialists who were invited
to work there were four IF
vice-presidents, three members of IF
administration and technical bodies,
seven international and national
category referees and eight members
of the administrative bodies of Soviet
sports federations. Each of the
specialists supervised a maximum of
180
two sports. All in all, the department's
personnel numbered 64 officials (excluding
service personnel).
In 1976-1979 the Sports Department
included a programme section
and a section responsible for information,
referee and sports equipment. By
the beginning of the Games the Department
had seven sections employing
64 people. Moreover, in 1979-1980
six additional services were set up
under the Department. The Department's
main tasks were: 1. carrying
out the organisational and
methodological work involved in preparing
for and staging the events in
accordance with the 1980 Olympics
programme; 2. making sure that IF
rules and requirements were observed
in building and reconstructing sports
installations and fitting them out with
necessary equipment; 3. controlling
the development of the facilities used
to fit out the sports installations and
making sure they tallied with the IF
rules and requirements; 4. selecting
and preparing Soviet sports referees,
auxiliaries and other personnel for the
events; 5. coordinating the work involved
in getting the sports facilities
ready for training during the Games;
6. setting up drug and veterinary
control services in accordance with
the Olympic Charter; 7. establishing
contacts with IF representatives on
preparing for and staging the Olympic
events; 8. editing and processing information
on the sports programme;
9. receiving and processing entries
from NOCs; 10. holding the Olympic
events jointly with the IFs and the
sports federations of the USSR, including
results processing.
In tackling these tasks, experts
relied on the experience acquired during
previous Games and on that accumulated
in preparing for and staging
sports competitions during the
1973 Students Games in Moscow and
the 1977 Students Games in Sofia, as
well as in a number of major international
competitions held in the Soviet
Union.
The VII USSR Summer Spartakiade
held from July 21 to August 5, 1979
played a special role. Here much of
the facilities intended for the Moscow
Games was put to the test and a
considerable amount of Olympic
referee documentation was used.
The Sports Department conducted
its activity in accordance with the
overall summary plan for Games Programme
worked out in 1976. Daily
plans and timetables for every sport
and for every Department service were
drawn up for the final stage of the
preparations and for the Games them-