



Figure skaters bowing to the spectators.
Sports commentator.
Banner on a building.
Newspaper articles with photos.
Excerpt from an interview with Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev on the street.
Figure skaters warming up.
An athlete falls.
Team representatives negotiate with the judges.
Ice repair and resurfacing.
Article about American figure skaters.
Excerpt from Rodnina and Zaitsev’s performance.
Spectators applauding.
Street panorama.
Soviet flag.
Journalists taking pictures of the USSR team.
Stadium stands.
Athletes’ parade.
Interspersed: excerpts from an interview with Nina Ponomareva about the 1952 Olympics, excerpts from the discus throwing competition.
Nina Ponomareva’s gold medal.
A runner on a track.
A speed skater at the finish line.
An athlete pushing a barbell.
A football team entering the field.
A bicycle race.
The winner is carried on shoulders.
Athletes with their coaches.
A medal in a box.
Nina Ponomareva.
Gold medal of the XV Olympiad in Helsinki.
Gold medal of the XXII Moscow Olympiad (Olympics-80).
Rodnina I.K. -- Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in figure skating
International coach
Russian public and statesman. Zaitsev A.G. -- Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in figure skating
international coach. Ponomareva (Romashkova) N.A. -- Soviet track and field athlete
discus thrower
two-time Olympic champion
world record holder. Dumbadze N.Ya. -- Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in track and field
USSR and European champion in discus throwing
1952 Olympic medalist.
1952-1980
Helsinki