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American firms for the Moscow Olympic
Games, the Organising Committee
bought certain types of equipment for
the swimming, water polo and trackand-field
events from the Yugoslav
Sport combine and the Austrian firm
V. Stipkowic.
Turnable targets for 25-m rapid
fire pistol
Scoreboard and barbell at the
Izmailovo Sports Palace
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Technical Officials and IF
Juries
Rule 42 of the Olympic Charter
states: "Each IFs recognised by the
IOC has full control of the technical
direction of its sport." In accordance
with Rule 43 of the Charter, the IFs
appoint the necessary number of technical
officials (referees, judges, timekeepers
and inspectors) as well as
members of the board of referees and
judges.
At the December 1979 Session of
the IOC Executive Board in Nagoya, as
has already been mentioned in this
chapter, it was worked out, on agreement
with each IF, how many officials
(including the IF leadership and technical
delegates) would take part from
each IF in staging the events of the
1980 Olympics.
All in all, 1,247 IF officials—
presidents, general secretaries, technical
delegates, members of the board
of referees and judges and technical
officials (referees)—from 77 countries
took part in refereeing the Games of
the XXII Olympiad.
Europe (including USSR)
Asia
Africa
America
Australia
Number of Number of
countries IF officials
25
15
15
20
2
993
57
42
129
26
Representatives from countries
whose NOCs did not take part in the
Games also worked on the board of
referees and judges and on the jury.
For instance, there were 24 such
representatives from the USA, 14 from
the FRG, 18 from Japan and so on.
In keeping with tradition, the
largest number of referees and jury
members, as at previous Games, were
representatives of the country in
which the Games were held.
The work of the boards of referees
and judges, and of the jury, was fully