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Hockey<br />
The Olympic hockey competition<br />
was held from July 20 through 31 at<br />
the Dynamo Minor Arena (10,000<br />
seats) and the Young Pioneers<br />
Stadium (5,000 seats).<br />
In keeping with the rules of the<br />
International Hockey Federation (FIH),<br />
the pitches measured 91.5 by 55<br />
metres. They were covered with Polygrass<br />
artificial turf supplied by<br />
J. F. Adolff AG of the FRG.<br />
Olympic Super De-Luxe balls were<br />
supplied by Hans Raj Mahajan and<br />
Sons Pvt., Ltd of India, who was the<br />
Official Supplier to the Games, and<br />
goal nets and pitch border nets by<br />
Bridport-Gundry of Great Britain.<br />
Soviet-made equipment and implements,<br />
such as goals, targets, posts<br />
for dribbling practice, etc. were also<br />
used for competition and training.<br />
The score-keeping equipment was<br />
manufactured in the USSR. The<br />
Dynamo Minor Arena had the Elektronika<br />
multi-purpose bulb letter-digital<br />
scoreboard (USSR) with 8 lines of 32<br />
characters each. The scoreboard displayed<br />
teams and lists of players, time,<br />
score during a game, and names of<br />
scorers. A specialised scoreboard at<br />
the Young Pioneers Stadium, pro-<br />
228<br />
duced by VISTI (USSR) displayed<br />
teams, time of play, score, and period.<br />
The FIH Council headed by the<br />
President was responsible for the<br />
competition.The FIH appointed members<br />
of the jury of appeal and technical<br />
officials including umpires, 43 altogether<br />
from 16 countries, among<br />
them 4 from the USSR.<br />
There were 61 Soviet support officials.<br />
The offices of the FIH were located<br />
in the administration building of the<br />
Dynamo Stadium.<br />
6 men's teams and—for the first<br />
time in Olympic history—6 women's<br />
teams took part in the competition.<br />
Men's teams first played against<br />
each other in a round. Then the first<br />
two teams played for gold and silver<br />
medals. Teams placed third and fourth<br />
contested for bronze medals and<br />
those placed fifth and sixth met once<br />
again to determine their final standing<br />
in the tournament.<br />
Women's teams played against<br />
each other in one round.<br />
192 competitors from 9 countries<br />
participated in the competition.<br />
There were no protests from the<br />
participating teams.
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