1980: Moscow

19 July-3 August
Television
NBC takes the US television rights for $87m and transmits 150 hours, even though the USA boycotted the Games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (ABC paid $15.5m for the Lake Placid Winter Games, generating 54 hours of programming.) Twenty television feeds are provided.

Film
The official film, O Sport, Ty Mir! (O Sport, You are Brave!) was directed by Yuri Ozerov. The 120-minute film was released in 1981 and is available on video.

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