Another games
A big sports festival would be held in the Soviet Union next year as “a kind of dress rehearsal” for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, said Novosti Press Agency yesterday, reports NZPA. The festival, known as Spartakiad, would be attended by about 200 athletes from 100 countries. The finals be screened on television throughout the world under an agreement between the Soviet Union
and a West German film company. Novosti quoted the German company’s- head (Lothar Bock) as saying that at least 1090 M people from 100 countries would see the Spartakiad on television. He said that the Spartakiad would be the most important event of the pre-Olympic season: “The games will to a certain extent predetermine the atmosphere and spirit of the 1980 Olympics.”
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Press, 5 August 1978, Page 52
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