Poster of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980
date: label: date made
content: 1979
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black poster with a gymnast on a balance beam dressed in a red leotard, "Anniversary Tours [/] XXII Olympiad Moscow, 1980".
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: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Gymnastics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anne B. Zill
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0273.04
label: accession number
content: 1986.0273
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0273.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Poster
label: Object Name
content: poster, olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 20 in; 63.5 cm x 50.8 cm