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Overall Games' Programme
Every Olympic Games consist of
many different events that take place
in a fairly short period of time. They
include sports competitions, opening
and closing ceremonies, cultural
events, meetings of the IOC and IFs,
protocol programme, events at the
Olympic Village and the International
Youth Camp. The same persons often
have to attend many of the above
events.
Taking this into account and striving
to create most favourable conditions
for the persons coming to the
Games that would permit them to take
part in all the events offered, the
OCOG-80 carefully planned the programmes
of all the events, paying
special attention to their dovetailing in
time. Every programme was drawn up
by the appropriate OCOG-80 department
in co-operation with the commissions
and organisations concerned.
Some of the programmes were coordinated
with the IOC and IFs as required
by the Olympic Charter.
Two years prior to the Games,
when the first versions of the programmes
had been prepared, the
Presidium of the OCOG-80 decided to
publish the Overall Games' Programme
as a brochure. The responsibility
for making the Programme was assumed
by the Department of Administration
and Network Planning.
The Programme began from a master
chart, which listed all major events
of the Games in graphic form. The
chart allowed to correlate all the
programmes in time while they were
updated and coordinated by various
departments. The chart was made and
amended throughout the rest of the
preparatory period. Alterations were
repeatedly introduced, following decisions
taken during discussions of individual
programmes. The alteration of
the chart, in its turn, required some
earlier decisions to be revised and
corrections to be introduced into its
component programmes.
All this made up the basis for the
Overall Games' Programme where all
the events were coordinated in time.
Thus, it eliminated the possibility of
different events being arranged simultaneously
for the same category of
persons, as it happened at some
previous Olympic Games.
The master chart was made an
integral part of the brochure "Overall
Games' Programme". It consisted of
master programmes for each day. It
was enough to open the brochure on
any day of the Games to find out what
events, where and at what time were
staged. It also contained competition
schedules at all venues for the period
of the Games.
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The Overall Games' Programme
was made for the period from June 27
through August 10, 1980, i.e. from the
day when the Olympic Village was
opened in Moscow until it was closed.
The master chart covered a slightly
longer period because it included the
Olympic Torch Relay that started in
Olympia in Greece on June 19, 1980.
A master daily programme contained
the following information:
— hourly schedule of competitions
indicating their venues, categories and
groups of competitors, the number of
medals contested for and times of the
awards ceremonies, and regulations
for the opening and closing ceremonies
on the days when the ceremonies
were to take place;
— schedules of the meetings of
the IOC, IFs, international and regional
sports associations indicating their
venues;
— a list of protocol programme
indicating the time and place;
— a list of events envisaged by the
cultural programme for various
categories of persons which they
could attend free of charge indicating
time and place for each;
— the programme of events at the
Olympic Village and the International
Youth Camp.
A one-day master programme is
shown in Fig. 2.
The first pages of the brochure
were taken by the sports programme
of the Games presented in a table by
days from July 19 through August 3,
1980, general information about Moscow,
a map of the city indicating the
competition sites, the main data about
the Olympic competition sites with
their addresses and public transport
The brochure "Master Activity
Programme of the Games of the
XXII Olympiad"