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Co-operation with the IOC
and IFs on Sports
Programme
Close co-operation between the organisers
and the IOC and IFs was one
of the most important conditions for
the success of the Games. The Organising
Committee began its work in
this direction practically six years before
the Games of the XXII Olympiad.
To introduce a planning approach
to this co-operation, the Organising
Committee worked out and together
with IFs put into practice a long-term
programme directed at coordinating
the main sports and technical questions
plenty of time in advance.
Here are the main provisions of
this programme.
1976. Agreeing to the co-operation
plan, appointing IF officials and determining
the terms, places and programmes
for meetings with them. Agreeing
to the planning of sports arenas,
stand capacities and the layout plans
for the service and auxiliary premises
at the Olympic sports facilities.
1977. Agreeing to a list of sports
facilities as well as one of referee and
information equipment. Agreeing to
the technical regulations draft and
plans for seating all interested persons
on the stands. Drawing up and
agreeing to a list of training facilities
and technical equipment for them.
Determining the number of members
on the board of referees and judges
and their work together.
1978. Approval of the IFs for the
regulations and their coordination
with the IOC. Agreeing to the conditions
for foreign athletes to take part
in the finals of the VII USSR Spartakiade
in the summer of 1979. Agreeing
to the referee documentation of
the Games.
1979. The presence of IF representatives
at the VII USSR Spartakiade.
Preliminary acceptance of the Olympic
competition and training facilities. Discussion
of IF proposals concerning
these facilities, their technical equipment
and its arrangement and the
colour design of the stands.
1980. Specification of the list of
candidates for the posts of IF technical
officials and members of the board
of referees and judges. Formal acceptance
of fully equipped sports
facilities. Holding of the Olympic competitions,
in accordance with the
sports programme of the Games.
This plan was approved by the
OCOG-80 and all the IFs in Barcelona
in October 1976. Many IF officials
commented that it was the first time in
preparing for the Games that their
organisers had begun to work together
with IFs well in advance. Later
on Robert Helmick, honourary general
secretary of the International Amateur
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Swimming Federation, stated that
"great respect for planning, so natural
to the Soviet system, has turned out to
be a favourable factor in preparing for
the Moscow Olympic Games".
The OCOG-80 invited IF officials
and technical delegates to Moscow
and the other Olympic cities in order
to give them a chance to acquaint
themselves with the preparations for
the Games, and to exchange opinions.
Moreover, representatives of the
OCOG-80 and of the Soviet sports
federations regularly reported at meetings
of the IF leading bodies on the
various questions arising from the
preparations for the Games.
IF administration annually received
more detailed information on the
preparations for the Games from
OCOG-80 delegations taking part in
IF meetings within the General
Assembly of the international sports
federations. Bilateral meetings between
the OCOG-80 and each IF were
held during these sessions.
This co-operation helped the
OCOG-80 to develop sound business
contacts with most of the international
sports federations and settle all the
sports and technical questions well in
advance.
The OCOG-80 noted with satisfaction
all the valuable recommendations
it received from IFs, and their active
work in settling various problems involved
in preparing for the Games.
Thus, at the initial stage of the construction
work IF representatives examined
the plans for new installations.
For instance, Javier Ostos, president
of the FINA, and its general
secretary Robert Helmick, who before
1979 had been its technical delegates,
noted with satisfaction that swimmers
and divers would compete in two
swimming pools divided by a permanent
partition. This ensured the most
favourable conditions for staging the
competitions and made it possible to
cut down the length of time they
lasted.
The arrival of the representatives
of the 16 IFs at the finals of the VII
Summer Spartakiade was an important
stage in carrying out the programme
of co-operation with IFs.
At this period sports and technical
questions to do with the Olympic
competitions were finally agreed on
and recommendations received for the
final preparation stage.
To the control competitions held
on the eve of the Games the Organising
Committee invited officials and
technical delegates from the IFs with
which it had to examine certain additional
questions.