Chapter 0218: Awkward and Deserted Opening Ceremony
Sports elites like Nelicin, after their success, the overwhelming honors they face can be imagined, Tang Huan naturally didn't take these small compliments to heart, but just said thank you very politely.
Neligin's father is Korean, and her mother is Tatar, so compared to her teammates next to her, she has an oriental face.
In addition, Neligin's success is quite encouraging, her gymnastics talent is not very good, and even she is not flexible enough at first, but her sister who participates in training looks even better.
However, with hard work, Neligin soon became the best gymnast in Kazakhstan at that time.
At the last Montreal Olympics, Neligin and Nadia Comaneci, who was only 14 years old at the time, both scored 10 points, almost sharing all the gold medals and becoming the two brightest stars.
After getting married in 1977, Neligin moved from Kazakhstan to Belarus. She will be 23 years old this year, past her peak as an athlete, and this will be the last Games she will be able to participate in as an athlete.
Feeling that Neligin was a little older and it should be more convenient to speak, Tang Huan chatted with the other party a few more words.
In fact, Neligin was a little quieter than his companions, who were a few years younger, and everyone else rushed to operate the console, which she just admired.
After a while, the team leader called these athletes who were about to go crazy, Tang Huan looked at the time, and he was about to attend the opening ceremony of the upcoming Olympic Games.
After having lunch and resting for a while, Tang Huan followed the arrangements of the Soviet side and the other people who were invited. From a special passageway to the Lenin Central Stadium, which can accommodate more than 100,000 spectators.
The weather is not very good today. The Soviet side had to make 6 sorties. Spray chemicals in the clouds to disperse the dark clouds floating over the stadium.
Because he had a deep impression of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in his previous life, Tang Huan also knew the various activities at the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games.
The Soviet side painstakingly set the date for the Games to be held from July 19 to August 3, which coincided with the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
The dates and months of the two sessions are exactly the same. It is the only time in the history of the Olympic Games.
The 15th Helsinki Olympic Games is the first Olympic Games in which the Soviet Union participated, and it goes without saying that the two sessions coincide, not a historical coincidence, but a careful arrangement by the organizing committee, that is, it symbolizes that the development of the Soviet Olympic movement has entered a new period.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and the Soviet party and government leaders and the principal officials of the Olympic Committee were already in place, and the opening ceremony was about to officially begin.
Tang Huan glanced at Brezhnev in the distance, and suddenly sighed.
Yugoslav Tito died in May this past year, ending 37 years of rule.
And according to the historical trajectory of development. Brezhnev, who put his predecessor Khrushchev under house arrest, would also die in 1982.
This is an era of great change.
The last edition was the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The ingenious use of modern science and technology to transmit the Olympic flame by satellite was an astonishing act, but it was later criticized.
Because the purpose of the traditional torch relay was to spread the Olympic ideals and spirit around the world, Canada's approach has lost its original meaning.
Therefore, according to the decision of the International Olympic Committee, the traditional way was reverted to this year, and the torch relay was carried out.
Carrying the torch into the central stadium was Soviet three-time Olympic champion Victor Saneyev. After running around the court for a week, he handed the torch to the famous Soviet basketball player Sergei Belov, who finally completed the mission of lighting the flames on the tower.
Soviet Führer Leonid Brezhnev announced the opening of the Games, and the oath was taken on behalf of the athletes by the last Soviet gymnastics star Vladimir Andreyanov, and on behalf of the referees and officials was the famous Soviet athlete and three-time Olympic wrestling champion Alexander Medvedy.
Tang Huan secretly yawned and set his eyes on the mascot of the Moscow Olympics, a bear named Misha, although it was very cute, but it was destined to be lonely and lonely due to political disputes.
I remember that in my previous life, at the closing ceremony of this Olympic Games, the organizers would make Misha have the effect of a tear in her eye, which can be described as extremely sensational.
History always likes to repeat itself, and in the future, Putin will make the Sochi Winter Olympics, and the scene will be similar to the embarrassment in front of him, but the degree is not so serious
As the planner and organizer of the boycott of the Moscow Olympics, US President Jimmy Carter has done a lot of extra work.
In line with official U.S. policy, the U.S. Olympic Committee voted not to participate in the Moscow Olympics.
In order to appease the protests and tears of the American Olympians, the US Olympic Committee awarded each athlete a commemorative gold medal, and Carter specially invited all members of the Olympic delegation to the White House, which somewhat underestimated the significance of the gold medal.
However, some countries that also support the boycott, such as France, allow athletes to decide for themselves whether or not to participate in the Moscow Olympics.
When the athletes entered, Tang Huan discovered the embarrassment.
A total of 80 countries have participated in the lowest number of countries since 1956, and many of them have sent only one flag bearer and replaced the national flag with the Olympic flag.
As for the athletes who participated, there were more than 5000 people, of which the Soviet Union had the most.
It is an exaggeration that Cuba, which is far away from the ocean, has sent a huge team of 239 male and female athletes.
There are also more than 5,000 journalists involved in covering the Games, and the total number is even more than the participating athletes.
In particular, during the handover ceremony of the Olympic flag, the mayor of Montreal, the last host city, only sent a representative to hand over the Olympic flag to the city of Moscow because Canada was among the boycotting countries.
All this naturally diluted the warm atmosphere of the venue.
Tang Huan could see a hint of mockery and schadenfreude on the faces of the people who were also invited next to him, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
Recall that the low price of oil throughout the 1980s hit the Soviet economy, which relied on exporting energy to earn foreign exchange, how similar to the previous attacks on Russia, which was mired in the Ukraine crisis. (To be continued......)