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the results of the heat with the world
and Olympic records and gave a signal
when any of them was exceeded.
The same company supplied the
scorekeeping equipment for water
polo.
The results-recording and display
equipment for diving competitions
supplied by Swiss Timing included a
miniprocessor for automatic processing
of marks awarded by judges and
the score displayed on the
scoreboard. The console of the referee
was linked to those of the
judges.
The diving pool had a multipurpose
bulb letter-digital scoreboard
(11 lines of 33 characters each)
and an astronomical clock
(Electroimpex/Fok-Dyem of Hungary).
The equipment for water polo
matches (by the same Hungarian firm)
installed at the swimming pool of the
Central Lenin Stadium included the
Dolphin-8 automatic clock, the score
control panel, actual time and player
exclusion time control panels, two
sets of portable actual time clocks
equipped to produce an audio signal,
a multi-purpose bulb letter-digital
scoreboard (10 lines of 33 characters
each), an exclusion-time clock, display
boards for the numbers of
players penalised and an astronomical
clock.
Results and start lists and various
tables to show progress of competitions
were posted in the lounges of all
the pools.
The technical officials and jury
worked in a traditional FINA pattern.
The FINA directly managed the technical
delegates, jury of appeal, the
International Technical Swimming
Committee, the International Technical
Diving Committee, and the International
Water Polo Committee which, in
their turn, directed technical officials.
All the above bodies numbered 149
232
members from 34 countries, including
35 officials from the USSR. There
were 80 Soviet support officials.
The programme of swimming, diving
and water polo competitions had
not changed, compared to the 1976
Games.
The FINA had set qualifying standards
in swimming and diving. Only
the athletes who had met the standards
were eligible for the Games of
the XXII Olympiad.
The following teams were selected
for the Olympic water polo tournament:
— the first six from the world
championship in 1978 (not counting
the team of the host country);
— the team of the host country;
— five best teams of an intercontinental
selection tournament.
The Olympic tournament consisted
of preliminaries and finals. The preliminary
round was played in three
groups of four teams each. The teams
placed first and second in each group
formed a final group and played each
other team in that group to determine
places 1 through 6. The rest of teams
played among themselves to determine
places 7 through 12.
537 athletes from 43 countries
altogether participated in the swimming,
diving, and water polo competitions.
The FINA headquarters were located
on the premises of the Olympiiski
Indoor Swimming Pool.
The FINA officials, competitors and
the press gave good marks to the
facilities offered.
The FINA President Javier Ostos
said: "This facility (the Olympiiski
Swimming Pool) can be called unsurpassed.
The best possible conditions
have been created for the competitors
and spectators. The Soviet organisers
were awarded special prizes of the
FINA."