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shown at the Grand Arena of Lenin
Stadium on the videomatrix
Scoreboard.
It should be noted that certain IFs
did not consent to information being
announced to their spectators about
events at other sites. However these
differences were overcome through
negotiations. As a result, the spectators
on the stands received information
about events at other sites.
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Entries
Work on the entries forwarded by
the NOCs included preparing
documentation, working out the
techniques of this work and receiving
and processing the entries.
The preparatory work on entry
forms began in 1977. It was based on
forms worked out by the OCOG of the
1976 Olympic Games, which themselves
had been based on the
documentation of previous Games.
These forms were convenient from the
point of view of function; the layout of
the columns and texts made it possible
to feed them straight into the
computer.
Naturally, corrections and additions
had to be made for the Games. A
number of extra forms had to be made.
All in all there were 96 forms:
preliminary (quantitative) entries
final (personal) entries
eligibility code for an athlete,
affirming his
amateur status
entries for NOC officials
entries for IF referees
a questionnaire for transporting
boats,
yachts and horses
reference form for transporting
sporting
weapons and ammunition
—29 forms
—59 forms
—1 form
—1 form
—1 form
—4 forms
—1 form
All the forms except the eligibility
code form were made in blocks of five
sheets of carbonless paper, each a
different colour, to facilitate work.
The text on the first and fifth
copies was in French and English, the
second, third and fourth also had a
Russian text and various remarks of
an official character.
When evolving the techniques for
receiving entries due account was
taken of transliterating the names of
the participants into Russian, which
caused certain difficulties. Special
reference and methodological textbooks
for transliterating from over 25
languages were published for the purpose.
The correct transliteration of the
names of the Soviet participants presented
no easier a task.
The following system existed for
receiving and registering entries: the
department for receiving and processing
entries set up at the main secretariat
service, consisted of three
groups. These dealt with receiving
entries, supervising translations and
the preliminary processing of entries,
and systematising and distributing
these entries to whom they were
concerned.
Forms for preliminary (quantitative)
entries together with instructions on
how to fill them in were sent out by
the OCOG-80 before April 1, 1980, to
all the NOCs recognised by the IOC.
After preliminary entries properly filled