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for theGames of the XXII Olympiad was determined at the 75th Session
of the IOC (Vienna, 1974) and included: athletics, rowing, basketball,
boxing,canoeing, cycling, equestrian sports, fencing, football, gymnastics,
weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, swimming, modern pantathlon,
shooting, archery, volleyball, yachting. The preparations for and staging
of the Olympic competitions in these events were the most important tasks
of the OCOG-80. The sports programme of the Games was worked out on several
principles.
First of all, the task was to stage the Olympic competitions on a high
organisational level in order to make sure that all the participants had
equal opportunities to achieve the best possible results.
Particular attention was paid to the rules of the IOC and IFs. Account
was also taken of the rich Soviet experience in staging major competitions.
The technical provisions for the Olympic events were based on the achievements
of science and practice, in order to create the conditions necessary for
top athletes to perform in and for maximum objective refereeing. In turn
the creation of the material and technical groundwork of the Games, the
preparation of athletes for the high level competitions and their performance
at the Games were to give a fresh spurt to sport throughout the world.
While working out the sports programme for the Moscow Games, the OCOG-80
took into account the experience of the organisers of the 1972 Olympics.
The experience of preparing for and staging the 1976 Olympic Games, held
in Montreal, was also studied and analysed.
The Sports Department was set up within the OCOG-80 in order to plan
and organise the preparations for the Olympic events. When selecting specialists
to work in this department account was taken, first of all, of their professional
standards, their experience of organising and refereeing competitions and
their prestige among the Soviet and foreign sports public. Among the specialists
who were invited to work there were four IF vice-presidents, three members
of IF administration and technical bodies, seven international and national
category referees and eight members of the administrative bodies of Soviet
sports federations. Each of the specialists supervised a maximum of two
sports. All in all, the department's personnel numbered 64 officials (excluding
service personnel).
In 1976-1979 the Sports Department included a programme section and
a section responsible for information, referee and sports equipment. By
the beginning of the Games the Department had seven sections employing
64 people. Moreover, in 1979-1980 six additional services were set up under
the Department. The Department's main tasks were:
1. carrying out the organisational and methodological work involved
in preparing for and staging the events in accordance with the 1980 Olympics
programme;
2. making sure that IF rules and requirements were observed in building
and reconstructing sports installations and fitting them out with necessary
equipment;
3. controlling the development of the facilities used to fit out the
sports installations and making sure they tallied with the IF rules and
requirements;
4. selecting and preparing Soviet sports referees, auxiliaries and
other personnel for the events;
5. coordinating the work involved in getting the sports facilities
ready for training during the Games;
6. setting up drug and veterinary control services in accordance with
the Olympic Charter;
7. establishing contacts with IF representatives on preparing for and
staging the Olympic events;
8. editing and processing information on the sports programme;
9. receiving and processing entries from NOCs;
10. holding the Olympic events jointly with the IFs and the sports
federations of the USSR, including results processing.
In tackling these tasks, experts relied on the experience acquired during
previous Games and on that accumulated in preparing for and staging sports
competitions during the 1973 Students Games in Moscow and the 1977 Students
Games in Sofia, as well as in a number of major international competitions
held in the Soviet Union.
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