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finish", chronometres, printing devices,
video-tapeplayers, a mechanism
for synchronised starts, and two
specialised current time panels.
For staging the competitions the
International Amateur Cycling Federation
(FIAC) appointed 42 officials
(commissaires) and a panel of judges
from 10 countries, including 30 persons
from the USSR. Soviet auxiliary
personnel (53 persons) worked as
well.
FIAC headquarters was housed in
the cycling track building.
The competition programme did
not undergo any changes since the
previous Olympics.
The Organising Committee fulfilled
the request of a number of national
federations to allow them during the
highway team trial to use their own
representatives as drivers of technical
service vehicles (following mandatory
presentation of an official driver's licence).
If a national delegation did not
have its own driver the OCOG-80
supplied one.
A total of 231 sportsmen from 34
countries took part in the cycling
competitions.
The competitions were held without
protests.
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