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1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
was held at 19:00
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) on 3 August 1980 at the
Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium Luzhniki Stadium ( rus, стадион «Лужники», p=stədʲɪˈon lʊʐnʲɪˈkʲi, ''Stadion Luzhniki'') is the national stadium of Russia, located in its capital city, Moscow. The full name of the stadium is Grand Sports Arena of the ...
. It was attended by the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium,
Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Gener ...
.
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closed the Games for the final time and passed the position on to
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. 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
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,
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. However, the United States-led
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resulted in changes to these elements, initiated by a host nation. Among them, the
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was raised instead of the flag of the next host nation, the
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; the
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was played in place of the
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; 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

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of
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chimes at 19:00
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. * Fanfare by the Herald Trumpeters: "Moscow Fanfare" by Soviet musician and composer A. Golovin * Vertical Red flags with the emblem of the Moscow Olympics on them entered, along with marshals and linemen. The
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was then showing 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. *Raising of the Soviet national flag, to the
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. *Raising of the Greek national flag, to the
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. *Speech by the IOC President Lord Killanin, in English. He closes the Games, and bids for "the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Los Angeles". This was his final Olympic message as IOC President as the position was passed on to Juan Antonio Samaranch. *Lowering of the Olympic flag and singing of the
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(in
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, rather than
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) performed by the same musical ensemble and using the same arrangement as the opening ceremony 15 days earlier. *Extinguishing of the
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, following a depiction (at the card stunt) of a "fading light" sourced from the flame. *Exit of the Olympic flag, to the tune of
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's "''
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''" and amidst fireworks. The flag was raised again in
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on 8 February 1984 for the opening ceremony of the
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. *Exit of the athletes, marshals, multicoloured flag bearers, and gymnasts. This was followed by the card stunt feature "Crying Misha" which depicts Misha crying at the same time. Artistic performances followed the ceremony proper. *Performance by the Massed
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s of the
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, Armed Forces of the USSR, conducted by the Senior Director of Music of the Armed Forces Bands Service, Major General Nikolai Mikhailov *Performance of gymnasts, acrobats and ribbon ballet dancers, eventually forming a picture frame (with the gymnasts as the frame itself, and the acrobats and dances inside it). *Giant
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s entered, taking places in each side of the stadium. *Dance performance by performers representing some of the Soviet Union's ethnic groups and peoples. *The Grand Finale:
Misha Misha (russian: Миша), also known as Mishka (russian: Мишка) or The Olympic Mishka (russian: Олимпийский Мишка), is the name of the Russian Bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games (the XXII Summer Olympics). He wa ...
's head appeared on the card stunt. A giant
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of Misha, mounted on balloons, then entered the stadium. *Following this: the singing of the finale song "''Farewell, Moscow''" ( rus, До свиданья, Москва, r=Do svidanya, Moskva). The song was sung by
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and Tatiana Ansiferova. *The Misha effigy was then released into the sky while in the final seconds of the song as the audience gave a loud applause. The effigy rose to a height of , finally coming down in a meadow near Moscow University after 3.5 hours. *Performers waltz and dance in a farewell celebration. A fireworks display then happened around the Central Lenin Stadium grounds, the second such display during the ceremony. Afterwards, amidst the fireworks lighting up the night sky, all the performers exit with the song "''Stadium of my Dreams''" ( rus, Стадион моей мечты, r=Stadion moyey mechti) playing in the background with a highlights video of the Olympiad playing in the scoreboard.


Anthems

* Red Army Choir
Soviet national anthem The "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" was the national anthem of the Soviet Union and the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing "The Internationale". Its original lyrics were written b ...
* Red Army Choir
Greek national anthem The "Hymn to Liberty", or "Hymn to Freedom" ( el, Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, also ), is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and is used as the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus. It ...
* Red Army Choir and the Bolshoi Theater Chorus –
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Legacy

Both the opening and closing ceremonies were shown in Yuri Ozerov's 1981 film ''
O, Sport, You - the Peace! ''O Sport, You Are Peace!'' (russian: О спорт, ты - мир! transliterated as O sport, ty - mir!) was a 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies, and sporting events of the 1980 Summer Oly ...
'' (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 An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event.
of the
2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...
, afterward the polar bear mascot blew out the 2014 Games Olympic torch and sheds a tear (in a nod to Misha's tears during the end of the 1980 Games).


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