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Moscow 1980 Olympics - some films

Further exploration has uncovered these three Soviet produced films on the gymnastics competitions at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Men's competition, part 1 There is a running commentary of the exercises featuring Alexander Detiatin, Nikolai Andrianov, Alexander Tkachev, Roland Brueckner, Michael Nikolay, the legendary Zoltan Magyar on the pommels, Danut Grecu, Stojan Delchev (double salto forward with half turn dismount off rings).



Men's competition, part 2

Features an early Cuban effort at a handspring double front vault and a slow motion technical analysis of Nikolai Andrianov's Tsukahara vault, Tkachev's winning parallel bars routine including a slow motion section on the piked forward somersault with straddle, Tkachev's 10 scoring high bar routine (beautiful) including slow motion analysis of the Tkachev release element, Kovacs, Delchev, Arroya's one armed work. Dismount elements by Andrianov, Detiatin. Delchev's gold medal winning routine.



Short film on the 1980 Olympics


The sound file has become rather mangled on this old film, which is unfortunately overlaid with some Romanian floor music, but it features Comaneci at the beginning then provides a summary of the women's competitions with Kim, Davydova, Naimushina, Filatova, Shaposhnikova and Zakharova.

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