4x400m Relay - 1980 Moscow Olympics 

Rather an eerie atmosphere I thought..

Победил СОВЕТСКИЙ спорт. И нечего больше говорить

@@REDVECTOR31 lol they had the best drugs in those days...now the Jamaicans and USA teams do.

Странно - вы сами говорите о политике, но утверждаете, что политики не было :)

@@REDVECTOR31Soviet drugs helped them win via their doctors and scientists helping them cheat

E a lui passò il testimone Tozzi, mio compagno di allenamento :)

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the main reason the US, UK + Allies boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics. Ironic since Afghanistan would be the Soviet's "Vietnam", and the main catalyst along with Gorbachev's crazy reforms that led to the USSR's collapse in 1991. Anyway, the Soviets + Allies would then counter boycott the next 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

@@mr.sinjin-smyth The UK didn't boycott the Moscow Olympics.

@@mr.sinjin-smyth what are you blathering on about? Great Britain were at these Games. How can you not know about Coe & Evett in the 800m/1500m??

Видимо вы забыли, что американцы в том году бегали даже на 4 секунды быстрее:))

The result of the Russian winners at the 1980 Olympics was 3:01.08. The result of the US team at the alternative Olympics competition in Philly, which happened in the same month, was 3:03.20.

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@@antonmihalik7096 Áno bratia. Celkom iste aj Ukrajinci s Rusmi by veci bratsky poriešili keby sa do toho nemontuje USA/UK...

@@antonmihalik7096 Ремигиус Валиулис не славянин. Он литовец. Кстати, он стартовал третьим и передал эстафету лидером.

@@a.caplikas3858 И литовцы к какому то кменю принадлежат, если они не Славяне.. Я читал мнения многих генетиков,что в их кровы Славянские гены...

И никто не проверял, употребляют ли советские спортсмены допинг:))

Better teams in LA. Italy ran 3:04.3 in Moscow to win bronze. Four years later they ran in 3:01.44 yet finished fifth.

The late , great Ron Clarke co-commentating, So , If they were running 10,000 meters, no problem!

I agree...ridiculous not knowing who the athletes are...it's like Alan Partridge commentating!

Let’s put this ignorance, as you say, in perspective. This was a commentary broadcast back to Australia. Details of every person in the field (late, great or otherwise) made little difference to anyone. And, really, 40 years later it still doesn’t. That fact that aficionados seem aghast that something about someone wasn’t mentioned has so little relevance. This commentary stands the test of time. Everyone knows the countries, everyone knows who is who. The excitement was captured quite magnificently. It was called like a race - which after all it was - and not a reading of an encyclopaedia. Was the team sheet wrong? They can only go on what is in front of them. Either way, it was great to watch and nit-picky historians even a century later will just have to please themselves.

@@Speedrcr5 - how would you feel if, say, British or American announcers misidentified the the swimmers on an Aussie gold medal winning relay team?

@@normanlinden5786 Couldn’t care less 40 years later. But listen to what they say when the teams on on the screen. Ron saying he’s surprised he’s not on their sheet. Keyboard critics four decades later can take all the offence they like.

Its just your assumption.

@@voulondesirae5989 No it isn't. It is the firm belief of just about everybody who has a decent knowledge of athletics that the 70s, 80s and 90s were drug-fuelled times. Women benefitted more than men (testosterone substitutes) which is why almost all of the women's world records today in the sprints (and the 800m), the long and high jumps and the heptathlon were all set back in the 80s and have still not been beaten. Check them out. Back then, the USSR and all the eastern block countries had state-sponsored drug programmes...other countries did not but still used drugs unofficially under the auspices of individual coaches. Some were caught (eg. Ben Johnson) but others were not (Jackie Joyner, Florence Griffiths-Joyner)

I take your point, but the western athletes doped just as much as their eastern bloc counterparts. Still very prevalent to this day.

@@francishunt562 not true. The huge difference was that PED research and administration was state-funded in the Eastern bloc countries and every athlete was involved. That was not the case in the West where it was a private entreprise albeit fairly widespread.

Did you know that 1980 was over 40 years ago?....so, in fact, the video shows how good they were back then....thanks mainly to drugs though haha.

@@david2804me and today’s PED drug abuse IS WORSE THAN EVER....except now the western governments are aiding and abetting the Jamaican track and USA track sprinters even more than the Soviets did. Brainwashed whites don’t want to admit it though

@@david2804me in those days 3:01.08 would usually win the NCAAs.

Couldn’t be bothered to learn the names.

Who will remember the red fascists???

Grod obsrvt

Because that's just about everyone said at the time and to be fair Russia is seen as the successor state to the USSR.

@@davebesag - that doesn't matter. Those Olympics were held in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. The announcers could have gotten the name of he host country right. That's part of their job.

Aussies, Americans, Brits etc often said 'Russia' or 'Russia' in those days rather than Soviet Union or USSR. Valiulis was Lithuanian and Linge Estonian.

For a start, Valiulis would be Lithuanian.

Chortle!

La invasión a Afganistán fue un pretexto para los países que boicotearon porque seguramente hubieran Sido derrotados por estos tremendos atletas rusos con un rendimiento pocas veces visto en una pista.!!! De otro planeta!!!

Darryl Nimmons The US decided not to send athletes to the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games.

Sort of ;-)

Thats because of their wanker President boycotting the games.

No, the U.S. boycotted these Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier.

Mi Key Сборная США была дисквалифицирована. Вот потому её и не было.

@@darrenshaw767 Yep. Leftist-Democrat Jimmy Carter.

Да, к тому же еще наши бежали на четырех ногах, потому видимо и побеждали. Какая разница, кто и что пьет и курит. Каждый сам хозяин собственному здоровью. А сейчас одна фармоиндустрия вытеснила другую, но спорт не стал чище - просто " судьи" стали очень избирательны в своих решениях. Если бы для США нашелся свой "родченков", результат оказался бы похожим. Но им повезло, и теперь они "святые", а Россию сделали козлом отпущения.

Ага! А сейчас видимо не принимают, а результаты растут без фармы. Вы сами то в это верите?!

Hardly whipped when Willie Smith went down on the top bend on the third leg. Only three nations have beaten the States properly in the World champs or Olympics since 1983. Great Britain, Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.

Not going to happen in Moscow.

@@francishunt562 -- Yep, so true. Sadly.

America boycotted this Olympics otherwise we'd have won.

На метане и станозололе бегали все не тупи

@@user-sb3uu7dh2p Да иди ты полем...

@@poiu7777uiop , этот "ванька" вполне возможно засланный казачок из незалежной или местный губодуй, который всем недоволен.

@@viktorfisher403 Вполне вероятно. Да и хрен с ними. Пусть бесятся.

Similar way for western athletes... Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Al Oerter, Angela Issajenko etc

IAN SHAW Наркотики у тебя в голове. Советский спорт никогда не пользовался наркотиками. Там были Великие тренеры, Великие спортсмены и они выступали за свою страну СССР. Вот потому такие результаты. То же самое касается и все социалистические страны. Они сражались не за деньги а за свои Великие страны. А что касается наркотиков, то это проблема только запада, где они свободно развивались. За наркотики в СССР можно было получить большой срок в тюрьме.

Well they didn't do much 'destroying' at the fully contested World Championships three years later, Brian. The USSR won that too, from Germany with the US 'scrubs' fifth. And it was Viktor Markin on the anchor here (as the early graphic confirms), not Viktor Burakov

Yeah, but if you remember, the guy who was running the penultimate leg fell. If he hadn't, they had Edwin Moses running anchor.

In 1988 Seoul Olympics, the US team was beaten and whipped badly by the Mighty Soviet Team!

At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the US team equalled the world record of 2:56.16, a full 5 seconds faster than this exhibition. The Soviets failed to make the final...

and there wasn't any doping by the eastern block countries either right? (sarcasm)