Historical Sport Pictures

[hckošice 16,605]

40 years ago the 19th July 1980 started the Moscow 1980 Olympics

 

Famous also due to the boycott of the so-called western world

 

Former Czechoslovakia as a one of the most "devoted" ex-USSR satelite state send a huge delegation of 211 athletes (the biggest in history 163+48) including also the biggest amount of Slovak athletes in the history of TCH olympic appearances (49 = 30+19)

 

Since the games were ultra important for the USSR they were kinda highly followed in the former Czechoslovakia as well.

 

But the results were not very satisfying and the result of "our" delegation was considered as failure, especially because from the 14 medals we won only 2 golds. (the legendary Ota Zaremba in Weightlifting andTCH football team) this was and is the only summer olympics team sport gold medal Czechoslovakia ever won and until Nagano 1998 Czech Rep. Ice Hockey triumph the only Olympic team sport gold for athletes from both Czechos-slovakian parts.

 

Czechoslovakia Football Team. Gold medalist of Moscow 1980 tournament, the squad included 2 slovaks - the GK Stanislav Seman (First from the left in the top row) who played all 6 matches and conceeded only 1 goal and midfield player František Kunzo (4th from left in top row)

The only gold medal Czechoslovakia won in any Olympic team sports during its existence.

 

and in the category of the most WTF random apparences, Czechoslovakia Womens Field Hockey team who competed in Moscow and won silver losing only to the gold medalist Zimbabwe. A sport that basically inexistant in the country received a wild card because of many returning quotas from boycotting NOC´s arrived and won inexplicable silver (Denmark football EURO 1992 prequel lol)

 

3 Slovak girls were part of the team. Viera Podhányiová (the left GK in the front row), Iveta Šranková and Alena Kyselicová (both from the right in the second row)

 

 

 

 

[Dragon 2,066]

3 hours ago, hckosice said:

40 years ago the 19th July 1980 started the Moscow 1980 Olympics

 

Famous also due to the boycott of the so-called western world

 

Former Czechoslovakia as a one of the most "devoted" ex-USSR satelite state send a huge delegation of 211 athletes (the biggest in history 163+48) including also the biggest amount of Slovak athletes in the history of TCH olympic appearances (49 = 30+19)

 

Since the games were ultra important for the USSR they were kinda highly followed in the former Czechoslovakia as well.

 

But the results were not very satisfying and the result of "our" delegation was considered as failure, especially because from the 14 medals we won only 2 golds. (the legendary Ota Zaremba in Weightlifting andTCH football team) this was and is the only summer olympics team sport gold medal Czechoslovakia ever won and until Nagano 1998 Czech Rep. Ice Hockey triumph the only Olympic team sport gold for athletes from both Czechos-slovakian parts.

 

Czechoslovakia Football Team. Gold medalist of Moscow 1980 tournament, the squad included 2 slovaks - the GK Stanislav Seman (First from the left in the top row) who played all 6 matches and conceeded only 1 goal and midfield player František Kunzo (4th from left in top row)

The only gold medal Czechoslovakia won in any Olympic team sports during its existence.

 

and in the category of the most WTF random apparences, Czechoslovakia Womens Field Hockey team who competed in Moscow and won silver losing only to the gold medalist Zimbabwe. A sport that basically inexistant in the country received a wild card because of many returning quotas from boycotting NOC´s arrived and won inexplicable silver (Denmark football EURO 1992 prequel lol)

 

3 Slovak girls were part of the team. Viera Podhányiová (the left GK in the front row), Iveta Šranková and Alena Kyselicová (both from the right in the second row)

 

 

 

 

Czechoslovakia only competed because Australia, The Netherlands, West Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Argentina, Ireland. Japan and Fiji withdrew or declined an invitation 

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4 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Czechoslovakia only competed because Australia, The Netherlands, West Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Argentina, Ireland. Japan and Fiji withdrew or declined an invitation 

Took them a while to work out that there weRe no barriers to bodyslam into, but after the first few games.....

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Moscow 1980 was also the hottest Summer OG based on average temperature IIRC.

 

This was a disappointing Games for Poland. We "only" won 3 gold medals and a bucketload of silvers and bronzes (14 + 15).

 

At least Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz told the comrades to fuck off in a stylish way after winning the pole vault gold on July 30th.

 

[dcro 10,211]

We all know that was an involuntary muscle spasm.  

[Monzanator 5,096]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

We all know that was an involuntary muscle spasm.  

 

That was the excuse our politicians came up with after the USSR ambassador in Poland wanted Kozakiewicz to be stripped of the gold AND banned for life for "offending the Soviet nation" Ain't communism fun?

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3 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Moscow 1980 was also the hottest Summer OG based on average temperature IIRC.

 

This was a disappointing Games for Poland. We "only" won 3 gold medals and a bucketload of silvers and bronzes (14 + 15).

 

 

Yeah, people in the West forget that in the early days of doping, (ie post Montreal 76) the other East European nations also fell a long way behind CCCP & DDR.

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13 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, people in the West forget that in the early days of doping, the other East European nations also fell a long way behind CCCP & DDR.

 

Combat sports was the biggest letdown - we won 5 silvers in Greco-Roman wrestling and 4 bronzes in boxing. That was bad by our standards from the 60s and 70s.

 

Biggest letdown in athletics was then 100m hurdles WR holder Grazyna Rabsztyn only finishing 5th. She bettered her own WR literally five weeks before the Games (it took Donkova six more years to beat that WR).

 

We sucked at swimming back then, only send 8 swimmers and somehow won a single bronze medal.

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Sissy Theurer and Niki Lauda in 1980.

 

Lauda personally flew Theurer's horse to Moscow, following the decision from the Austrian federation to support boycott. Theurer and Mon Cherie went on to take the gold medal.

 

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Crown prince Constantine II of Greece after winning gold medal in Sailing at Rome 1960 OG in dragon class , just few years later he'll become the last King of Greece