exactly 41 years ago in the summer of 1980 I remember everybody in the town where I was living ran to the main road to see something spectacular. All the roads were blocked and cleared of traffic. I was only 3.5 years old and so i had no idea what was going on. I saw an athlete with a torch running northbound on the main road with cars following him and the press. People yelling with joy, cheering and applauding. It was a big moment in the country and me a little kid clueless thinking 'what is all the fuss about?' Now 40 years later I reconcile the thought. That was the big moment in the Soviet Union, the torch relay. I just wanna go back in time to that day, a carefree, little kid starting life in a small town without a worry in the world. Nostalgia. I'd give anything to be back on that day in 1980 to watch again the the Olympic torch relay that now I find out started in Greece. Where are those times ?????????????????????????????????????????????
@Gordao44
14 жыл бұрын
A melhor Olimpíada de todos os tempos!!
@redletter2008
13 жыл бұрын
I really liked the Moscow torch lighting. It was very impressive. I remember as a kid watching it on the evening news. Because of the US-led boycott, there was no US coverage of the '80 Games. Jimmy Carter ruined two Olympic Games with his useless boycott. The Soviets retaliated in '84 for the LA Games. I remember US athletes, who had trained for years, being invited to see Carter at the White House. Many of them gave Carter a piece of their mind, then helped defeat him a few months later.
@mikenealon4042
3 жыл бұрын
a great looking olympic cauldron.
@redletter2008
13 жыл бұрын
@schueaj The boycott served no purpose in the end. LA was granted the '84 Games in '78, so Carter knew that his boycott would compel the Soviets to retaliate when it was our show. Like today's inpotent "sanctions" against Iran or Lybia or North Korea, the '80 boycott acheived nothing. It did not cause the USSR to pull even one troop out of Afghanistan. Once again, Carter failed. What an atrocious President (though the current boob is challenging). Moscow had a great show, even without us there.
@Johnny777violin
14 жыл бұрын
extraordinario y todavía ninguna nación a superado esta presentación, solo los chinos pudieran alcanzar e incluso iguala; pero jamas superar. Y todavía hoy día criticamos a los Soviet Supremo.
@МастерЙода-я4ю
10 жыл бұрын
Вот так вот успешно заменяли большие телевизионные панели
@caravaggio31
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, you're right I'm fixing the comment.
@TheKendog1988
6 жыл бұрын
What's the name of the song their playing after cauldron get lit?
@Yaroshenko
12 жыл бұрын
Je ne comprends pas ce vidéo des Jeux Olympiques de Moscou 80 et les les Jeux Olympiques de Moscou 80 montrés ici « Olimpiadas Unión Soviética 1980 Apertura», Lequel est le vrai ??????????
@iago68
13 жыл бұрын
@caravaggio31 that's odd. i could have sworn that was 1972 munich
@rucksplash08
13 жыл бұрын
@caravaggio31 More like a theft of epic proportions.
@ThePrikoki
11 жыл бұрын
you must be new to the internet.
@victormatavercosa
11 жыл бұрын
yesterday*
@GabAxe
14 жыл бұрын
@krLiThoxX Eso dicen todos los radicales, los que quieren justificar la injusticia propia, pero armar escándalo sólo por la de los demás.
@irish89055
12 жыл бұрын
with their "professiona"l team and some BS referees .. we repaid the favor twenty years later with the Dream team... now that there is no Soviet Union I think professional athletes should be out..
@Buttscum
12 жыл бұрын
they invited the soviets to invade and annex them? bullshit.
@irish89055
12 жыл бұрын
hardly the same thing estupido... I wasn't for arming the counter Soviet islamic fighters(bin laden) to the extent that was done,esp with stinger missles
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