Date and place| 13th Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980, 13-24 februari |
StatisticsNumber of participants: 1072 (840 men and 232 women)
Total number of spectators: 550.000
Olympic Oath: Eric Heiden (United States, skater)
Olympic flame: Dr. Charles Morgan Kerr (United States)
Participating countries: 37
Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand , North Korea, Norway, Austria, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Czechoslovakia, United States, West Germany, Iceland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland |
Accomodations| Nordic skiing at the Mt. Hoeven of Berg (stadium cross country) and in Intervale (Skispringstadion with the small and large redoubt, or critical point 86. 114 m. spectator capacity: 18,000), alpine skiing at Whiteface Mountain (downhill: Men: starts at an altitude of 1313 m, height : 832 m, Ladies: start at an altitude of 1181 m, height: 700 m, Slalom: Men: start at a height of 876 m, 204 m altitude, ladies, starting at a height of 845 m, altitude: 178 m, giant slalom: first race on the Parkway-piste: Men: Start at an altitude of 876 m, altitude: 395 m, Ladies: start at a height of 845 m, altitude: 364 m. The second match on Thruway-piste: Gentlemen: Start at an altitude of 876 m, altitude: 395 m, Ladies: start at a height of 845 m, altitude: 364 m, biathlon at the Mt. Hoeven of Berg (cross country and biathlon stadium shooting), skating in the Olympic Field House I (hall with ice rink, spectator capacity: 8000) and in the Olympic Field House II (audience capacity 1500), speed skating to the James B. Sheffield-track (400 m artificial ice rink, elevation: 562 m, spectator capacity: 4000), luge on the ice rink on the Mt. Hoeven of Berg (length 1000 m Men, Women and 740.5 m twositter, starting height 728.1 m, height: 93.31 m, 15 turns), bobsleigh in the ice rink at the Mt. Hoeven of Berg ( Length: 1557 m, starting height: 771 m, altitude: 148 m, 16 turns), ice hockey in the Olympic Field House and in the Arena (audience capacity 2500). |
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