USSR Moscow
XXII Summer International Olympic Games

For the first time, athletes of Angola, Botswana, Jordan, Cyprus, Laos, Mozambique and Seychelles made their appearance at the Olympics. Athletes of Zimbabwe came to the Games after a long interval (earlier this country was known as South Rhodesia and was barred from taking part in the previous Olympics due to its apartheid system).
Totally 5,179 athletes (including 1,115 female ones) of 80 nations competed at the Moscow Summer Olympics. The USSR delegation included 491 athletes. Totally 203 sets of medals had been played for in Moscow in 25 sports.
At the XXII Olympics opening ceremony at the Louzhniky Stadium, the Olympic Flame was lit by Olympic Champion basketball player Sergei Belov. The Athlete’s Oath was voiced by male gymnast Nikolay Andrianov.
In Moscow, the Olympic judges for the first time took the Judge’s Oath. On their behalf the Judge’s Oath was voiced by wrestler Alexandr Medved.
The Games of the XXII Olympiad were officially opened by Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev. 

WINNER MEDALS
As from the Munich Olympics, it seems another Olympic tradition appeared, i.e. while the obverse side remains of its classic design of 1928, the reverse design is altered from the Olympics to the Olympics. The Moscow Olympics retained the tradition. The reverse side was modified by designer Ilya Postol. It shows a stylized Olympic bowl with burning flame against the background of a stadium arena. The Moscow Olympics logo, the stylized Kremlin Tower and Olympic rings, appears in the upper right-hand segment of the medal. The sport concerned is engraved in Russian on the rim.
Organizers of the Moscow Olympics made a decision to use a silk ribbon again in place of the chain. The ribbon was passed through a ring attached to the medal itself.
OBVERSE: a figure of the Greek Goddess of Victory, holding a laurel wreath in her right hand, hand raised, and a palm leaf in her left hand. On the left of the goddess, there is a Panathenaean amphora standing on a shelf rock, with depicted competing athletes. A view of an amphitheatre looking like the Roman Coliseum appears on the right of the goddess. A four-line inscription in Cyrillic reading “Игры XXII – Олимпиады – Москва – 1980” (English: XXII–Olympics – Moscow – 1980) is engraved in the right upper segment.
REVERSE: a stylized Olympic bowl with burning flame against the background of a stadium arena, and the Moscow Olympics logo in the upper right-hand sector. 

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL
OBVERSE: the official logo of the Moscow Olympics against the background of a stadium arena on the left, and four-line inscription in Cyrillic “XXII – Олимпиада – Москва – 1980” (English: XXII – Olympics – Moscow – 1980”), with the designer’s initial and name “A. Leonova” and mint seal below the stadium arena.
REVERSE: a view of the Moscow Kremlin and Saint Basil Cathedral from the Moskva River.