How it was 14.11.2000 (2000)

Theme of the program "Olympics - 80" 1980. In the second half of the 20th century, the Olympic Games ceased to be just a sporting event.

Governments of different countries considered the right to host the Olympics as a matter of national importance.

And for the country of victorious socialism, holding the Olympic Games was, first of all, a political event.

From the gloomy capital of totalitarianism, Moscow was becoming the center of world sport.

The program features the immediate organizers of the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 - the people on whose shoulders fell all the difficulties of ensuring the successful holding of the Games.

Guests in the studio: Smirnov Vitaly - President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Chizhikov Viktor - Honored Artist of Russia, author of Mishka - the mascot of the Olympics-80, Kozin Nikolay Fedorovich - Deputy Chief of the Main Inspectorate of the Headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Rossoshek Lev - Deputy. editor-in-chief.

Newspapers "Sport-Express", Vladimir Salnikov - Soviet swimmer, 4-time Olympic champion, Belov Sergey - Soviet basketball player, two-time world champion.

Chronicle: Digest of the history of the Olympic movement, Olympic flame, journalists in the press center, telefaxes, US President Carter, baggage inspection at customs, bourgeois magazines and books, carrying out the Olympic flag, strikes in Poland, funeral of V. Vysotsky, closing of the Olympics, flight of Misha - Olympian on balloons, Fragment of the film "Why did Misha the Olympian cry?" 1980.