From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Olympics ceremony in Moscow, USSR
The
Closing Ceremony of the
1980 Summer Olympics
was held at 19:00
Moscow Time
(
UTC+3
) on 3 August 1980 at the
Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium
. It was attended by the
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
,
Leonid Brezhnev
.
IOC President
Lord Killanin
closed the Games for the final time and passed the position on to
Juan Antonio Samaranch
.
As with other Olympic closing ceremonies held before and after, it was also originally planned to include
the traditional handover
to the next host city for the
1984 Summer Olympics
,
Los Angeles
. However, the United States-led
boycott
resulted in changes to these elements, initiated by a host nation. Among them, the
flag of Los Angeles
was raised instead of the flag of the next host nation, the
flag of the United States
; the
Olympic Hymn
was played in place of the
United States National Anthem
;
[1]
and the next host city presentation, featuring artistic displays of dance and theater representative of Los Angeles and the United States, was removed from the ceremony's programme.
Sequence of events
[
edit
]
- The
countdown
of the
Kremlin Clock
chimes at 19:00
Moscow Time
.
- The Herald Trumpeters perform "Moscow Fanfare" by Soviet musician and composer
Andrei Golovin
.
- Vertical
red flags
with the emblem of the Moscow Olympics on them enter, along with marshals and linemen. A
card stunt
shows the Moscow Olympics logo, with rays spreading from it.
- Flag bearers enter the stadium.
- Athletes enter the stadium.
- Athletes gather in the stadium, as gymnasts and performers carrying multicoloured vertical flags enter.
- The
Soviet national flag
is raised, to the
Soviet national anthem
.
- The
Greek national flag
is raised, to the
Greek national anthem
.
- The
Los Angeles city flag
is raised, to the
Olympic Anthem
.
- IOC President
Lord Killanin
gives a speech in English. He closes the Games, with the protocol phrase "the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Los Angeles". This is his final Olympic message as IOC President, as the position is passed during the Games to
Juan Antonio Samaranch
.
[2]
- The Olympic flag is lowered and the
Olympic Anthem
is sung (in its
original language (Greek)
, rather than
Russian
) by the same musical ensemble and using the same arrangement as the
opening ceremony
16 days earlier.
- The
Olympic Flame
is extinguished, with the participation of the
Vestal Virgins
from Olympia with a depiction (in a card stunt) of a "fading light" sourced from the flame.
- The Olympic flag exits the stadium, to the tune of
Beethoven
's
Ode to Joy
and amidst fireworks. The flag was set to be raised again in
Sarajevo
,
Yugoslavia
, on the afternoon of 8 February 1984 for the opening ceremony of the
1984 Winter Olympics
.
- The assembled athletes, flag bearers, and gymnasts exit. This is followed by a card stunt depicting Misha crying and waving goodbye to the public.
Artistic performances followed the ceremonial segment: performance by the Massed
Military Bands
of the
Moscow Military District
,
Armed Forces of the USSR
, conducted by the Senior Director of Music of the Armed Forces Bands Service, Major General
Nikolai Mikhailov
.
Artistic segment: Memories from Moscow
[
edit
]
- Gymnasts, acrobats, and ribbon ballet dancers perform, eventually forming a picture frame for memories that will last forever (with the gymnasts as the frame itself, and the acrobats and dancers inside it).
- Giant
matryoshka dolls
enter, taking their places on each side of the stadium.
- The same groups who represented the Soviet Union's ethnic groups and peoples during the opening ceremony give a last dance presentation and a final goodbye.
- Misha gives a final goodbye: the crying
Misha
appears again in a card stunt. At the same time, a 6-metre (20 ft) inflatable version of the mascot, suspended by 22 giant helium balloons, is moved to the center of the stadium.
- Following this entrance: the finale song "Farewell, Moscow" (Russian:
До свиданья, Москва
,
romanized
:
Do svidanya, Moskva
) is sung by
Lev Leshchenko
and Tatiana Ansiferova.
- The Misha ballon is then released into the sky in the final seconds of the song as the audience applauds loudly. The balloons rise to a height of 800 metres (2,600 ft), coming down in a meadow near
Moscow University
after 3.5 hours.
[3]
- All the performers dance in a farewell celebration. The ending fireworks display starts around the Central Lenin Stadium, the second such display during the ceremony. Afterwards, amidst the fireworks lighting up the Moscow night sky, the performers exit with the song "Stadium of my Dreams" (Russian:
Стадион моей мечты
,
romanized
:
Stadion moyey mechti
) playing in the background, along with a highlight video of some special moments of the Olympics playing on the scoreboard.
Anthems
[
edit
]
Legacy
[
edit
]
Both the opening and closing ceremonies were shown in
Yuri Ozerov
's 1981 film
O, Sport, You - the Peace!
(
Russian
:
О спорт, ты - мир!
) covering the highlights of that Olympiad.
A short clip of the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony of Misha's departure was shown in the
closing ceremony
of the
2014 Winter Olympics
, after which the
polar bear mascot
blew out the 2014 Games Olympic torch and shed a tear (in a nod to Misha's tears during the end of the 1980 Games).
[4]
[5]
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
|
---|
Opening ceremonies
| |
---|
Closing ceremonies
| |
---|
|