Jacket, 1980 Summer Olympic Moscow Games
date: label: date made
content: 1980
name: label: wearer
content: Ruskin, Norman
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Navy blue warm up jacket with white stripes down the sleeves, white zipper front, turtleneck collar, and two side pockets. The back is embroidered in red and outlined in white 1980 [/] OLYMPICS [/] MOSCOW. The NBC logo is embroidered in white on the left breast. This was won by the donor, Norman Ruskin, as a promotional giveaway from NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. The 1980 Summer Olympics were boycotted by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1980 Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad were held in Moscow, Russia with 80 countries, 4,064 men and 1,115 women athletes participating. The United States boycotted these Games along with 66 other countries due to Russia’s involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war which began the previous year. The Soviet Union won the medal count with 195 with East Germany coming in second with 136 medals, the third-place finisher had only 41, making these the most skewed results since the 1904 Games.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Norman Ruskin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0105.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0105
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0105.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket
label: Object Name
content: jacket, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (zipper material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 71 cm x 52.5 cm; 27 15/16 in x 20 21/32 in