The Moscow Olympics, 1980: competing in the context of the Cold War and state dirigisme Olga Chepurnaya

At the seventy-fth meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held in October 1974, the decision was made to select Moscow as the host city of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in 1980 (almost immediately the media reduced the full name down to Olympics-80). This event was preceded by a long history of relations between the USSR and the IOC, which emerged during the post-World War II period, when in the spring of 1951, the USSR became a member of the Olympic Movement. From 1952, the Soviet national team regularly took part in the Olympic Games.