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substance as a drug. The IOC Medical
Commission has no reproof for the
organisation of this work. In this respect
the Moscow Olympic Games
were cleaner than any previous Olympic
Games."
The OCOG-80 entrusted the Main
Veterinary Department of the Ministry
of Agriculture of the USSR on mutual
agreement with organising veterinary
control of the horses. A plan for
special measures to be taken on
these questions encompassed the
period from 1977 to 1980. Veterinary
certificates were sent to the NOCs in
1978.
The Veterinary Service was set up
at the close of 1979. It included
workers from the Main Veterinary Department
of the Ministry of Agriculture
of the USSR and the Moscow Veterinary
Academy, on the basis of which
quarantine of horses was organised.
Customs officers at check-up
points received special instructions for
supervising the bringing of horses
from other countries into the USSR.
The OCOG-80 drew on the experience
accumulated in preparing for
and staging the Games in Mexico,
Munich and Montreal in thoroughly
analysing the Olympic requirements of
sports installations. The organisers decided
that, as a rule, not more than
two sports were to be held in each of
them, even when these were to be
held in succession. The observance of
this rule improved the organisation of
the events and meant that it was not
necessary to readjust the arenas during
the Games more than was essential.
Despite the fact that there was a
certain expansion in the programme
of the Games of the 22nd Olympiad,
its carefully thought-out structure and
the distribution of sports among the
arenas meant that 25 sports arenas
could be used at these Games, i.e. not
more than at the two previous Olympic
Games.
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Competition Sites
The following table gives a list of
the sports installations at which
events in various sports were held.
Two arenas were prepared for each
of the sports team (except football),
with different seating capacities.
Men's and women's team competitions
were held at both arenas. This
made it possible to hold the most
interesting matches with capacity
crowds.
The events demonstrated that the
selection of sports installations was
correct.
Control competitions, with young
sportsmen from Moscow taking part,
were organised in May-June 1980, on
the decision of the Organising Committee,
in order to check up on the
preparation for the sports events.
These were held in two stages: May
23-June 3 and June 10-19. They were
held at all the Olympic sports installations
in all the sports included in the
Games programme.
In Tallinn the control regatta was
held at the same time.
During the control competitions
the sports directorates, the boards of
referees and judges and the main
secretariat service worked precisely
according to the specific timetable
worked out for the coming Olympic
Games. The "Olympiad" ACS helped
process the applications and prepare
protocols for the competitions. The
protocol service of the OCOG-80 presented
prizes to the winners.
These competitions helped perfect
the interaction of all the units and
services of the system administering
the Olympic Games, while the boards
of referees and judges worked on
streamlining certain problems in reallife
conditions.
In the course of the competitions it
came to light that certain service
premises and some of the means of
communication at the Grand and
Minor Arenas and Sports Palace of
Lenin Stadium as well as at the Indoor
Stadium and at the Olympiisky Swimming
Pool were insufficiently prepared.
The measures taken helped to
eliminate all these shortcomings in
good time. All the services and directorates
were fully prepared for their
work at the Games.