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The long-term plans for cooperation
between the OCOG-80 and
the IFs, encompassing the period between
1976 and 1980, which included
the Games themselves, were fully realised
in the time agreed upon and
this facilitated the staging of the
Games.
The OCOG-80 based its work on
business-like co-operation with the
IOC headquarters in the person of its
director Monique Berlioux, technical
director G. Benx and IOC technical
adviser Arpad Csanadi.
At the close of 1976, during a
meeting with G. Benx, the question
of co-operation between the OCOG-
80 and the IOC over the sports programme
was discussed and the procedure
and tentative dates for handing
over relevant materials to the IOC
agreed upon. A Sports Programme
section was included in every OCOG-
80 summary presented to sessions of
the IOC and its Executive Board as
well as to sessions of the IOC Executive
Board held with the NOCs and
IFs.
The work done on the regulations
was also conducted in close collaboration
with the IOC. First, in October
1977, the regulations prepared by
the OCOG-80 were submitted for
examination to the IFs. Some of
the federations deemed it necessary to
draw up draft regulations themselves.
The OCOG-80 took all these into
consideration when preparing the final
variants. In 1978 the regulations were
approved by all the corresponding IFs
and by March 1979, ready to be
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published, they were signed by the IF
leaders and then approved by the IOC.
Representatives of the OCOG-80
took part in preparing the "IOC Medical
Controls" brochure, which was
drawn up by the IOC Medical Commission
and put out at the same time as
the regulations.
In 1979 the IOC agreed upon the
entry forms for athletes taking part in
the Games.
By November 1979 the OCOG-80 in
accordance with Rule 43 of the Olympic
Charter had agreed with all the IFs
upon the number of technical officials
(referees, judges, time keepers and
inspectors), as well as on the members
of the jury in every sport. Then
the IOC Executive Board approved the
number of these officials.
At the final preparation stage
(April-June 1980) the OCOG-80 regularly
informed the IOC on how many
NOC entries had been registered.
During the Games the OCOG-80
prepared daily reports covering the
sports programme for the IOC Executive
Board. These contained the following:
sports in which events were
held and the number of events; the
number of medal sets competed for;
the number of spectators present on
the stands; data about medical control
tests done on the athletes; information
on the world and Olympic records set;
information on the presentation ceremonies;
a list of athletes and teams to
win medals; and information on the
next day's sports programme.
These reports, published in French
and English, were delivered to IOC
headquarters by 9 a.m. every day.