Winter Olympic Games 1972. First Asian Games

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For the first time, the Winter Olympic Games were held in Asia. As the organizers of the Games, the Japanese had little hope for the success of their athletes: in their entire history, they managed to win only one silver medal.

SCENE

Sapporo

Sapporo is a city in Japan, in the southern part of the island of Hokkaido, on the Toyohira River, near the coast of the Sea of Japan. Population 1.2 million inhabitants. Administrative, economic, cultural center of the island.

OUR BANNER

Vyacheslav Vedenin

At the Olympics in Sapporo, he was the standard bearer of the USSR national team and brought two gold medals to her piggy bank - in the 30 km race and in the relay. Before Vedenin, none of the Soviet athletes managed to win the men's individual race on the Olympic track. Vedinin is a four-time world champion, and from 1966 to 1973 he regularly became the champion of the USSR.

ALTERNATIVE EVENTS

ABM Treaty

On May 26, 1972, an agreement was concluded between the USSR and the USA on the limitation of anti-missile defense systems, which, despite the Cold War and the general increase in tension between the two countries, became to some extent one of the pillars of international security systems. This treaty was in force for almost 30 years - on December 13, 2001, US President George W. Bush announced the US's unilateral withdrawal from the ABM treaty. According to political scientists, this step means that America has taken a course to ensure its absolute military superiority on the planet, despite the fact that the events in Afghanistan 20 years ago proved that it is impossible to effectively solve the most acute international problems without Moscow.

The main objective of the Games was to demonstrate the social and economic transformations that have taken place in the country in the post-war decades. Therefore, about 4 thousand journalists were accredited in Sapporo.

1012 athletes, including 204 women from 35 countries, joined the fight for 35 sets of awards in 10 sports. The athletes of the USSR performed confidently again. Successful performances of skiers, biathletes, hockey players and figure skaters allowed the USSR team to get ahead of all rivals.

The hero of the skiing competition was the talented racer V. Vedenin, who managed to win two gold and a bronze medal. However, it was not so much the gold medal in the 30 km race that made this athlete famous, but the performance at the last stage of the 4 x 10 km relay.

When Vedenin took the start, the USSR team lost to the Norwegian team for about a minute. Eliminate this gap in competition with strong team seemed to be impossible. The coaches set Vedenin the only task - not to miss at least a silver medal. However, Vedenin was the first at the finish line, who managed not only to win back a minute from the Norwegians, but to bring victory to the USSR team with an advantage of more than 9 seconds.

IN cross-country skiing 5 and 10 km for women confident victory won by G. Kulakova, who managed to add a third to these two gold medals - victory in the relay. The winner in the speed skating competition was A. Schenk (Netherlands), who won three gold medals at distances of 1500 m, 5000 m and 10,000 m. S. Aoti managed to win all three medals.

Another sensation is the achievements of the athletes of the GDR, who competed as an independent team for the second time. At the X Winter Games, they managed to win 5 medals and finished tenth with 35 points. But in Sapporo there were already 14 medals: 4 gold, 3 silver, 7 bronze. Three gold medals were won by lugers, W. Veling became the first among the combined athletes. In the team fight, the athletes of the GDR took second place - 83 points.

And the athletes of the USSR confidently achieved a team victory, having won 120 points and 16 medals: 8 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze. The third were athletes from Norway who won 79 points and 12 medals: 2 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze.

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From February 3 to February 13, 1972, the XI Winter Olympic Games were held in Sapporo (Japan). For the first time the Games were held in Asia. As the organizers of the Games, the Japanese had little hope for the success of their athletes: after all, in their entire history they managed to win only one silver medal. The main objective of the Games was to demonstrate the social and economic transformations that have taken place in the country in the post-war decades. Therefore, about 4 thousand journalists were accredited in Sapporo. There were 1006 athletes (including 206 women) from 35 countries competing in 7 sports.

The USSR team, which included 82 athletes, competed in all types of the program, except for bobsleigh competitions, and won 8 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals. Successful performances of skiers, biathletes, hockey players and figure skaters allowed the USSR team to get ahead of all rivals. The hero of the skiing competition was the talented racer V. Vedenin, who managed to win two gold and a bronze medals. However, it was not so much the gold medal in the 30 km race that made this athlete famous, but the performance at the last stage of the 4x10 km relay. When Vedenin took the start, the USSR team lost to the Norwegian team for about a minute. It seemed impossible to close such a gap in competition with a strong team. The coaches set Vedenin the only task - not to miss at least a silver medal. However, Vedenin was the first at the finish line, who managed not only to win back a minute from the Norwegians, but to bring victory to his team with an advantage of more than 9 seconds.

In cross-country skiing at 5 and 10 km for women, G. Kulakova won a confident victory, who managed to add a third to these two gold medals - victory in the relay.

The winner in the speed skating competition was A. Schenk (Netherlands), who won three gold medals - at distances of 1500, 5000 and 10,000 m.

One of the sensations of the Games was the performance of Japanese jumpers from the 70-meter springboard: Y. Kasaya, A. Kono and S. Aochi managed to win all three medals.

Photo: AFP

Another sensation is the achievements of the athletes of the GDR, who competed as an independent team for the second time. At the X Winter Olympic Games, they managed to win 5 medals and finished tenth with 35 points. But in Sapporo there were already 14 medals (respectively 4, 3, 7). Three gold medals were won by lugers, W. Veling became the first among the combined athletes. In the team fight, the athletes of the GDR took second place (83 points). And the athletes of the USSR confidently achieved a team victory - 120 points and 16 medals. The third were athletes from Norway - 79 points and 12 medals (2, 5, 5).

Information provided by the Russian Olympic Committee.

XI Winter Olympic Games were held in Sapporo (Japan) from 3 to 13 February 1972.

The second half of the 1960s was characterized by a difficult political situation in the world. In particular, the underdeveloped countries of Africa "differed", where military coups and uprisings became almost a daily norm. This, of course, left its mark on the development of all world sports and the Olympic movement.

But, despite the complexity of the situation on Earth, the Olympic movement could not but receive a new impetus in its development. And soon this impulse appeared. An example of this was the officially submitted application on October 6, 1965 from the leadership of the Japanese Olympic Committee and the city of Sapporo. In it, an appeal was drawn up to the President of the IOC with a request to consider the candidacy of Sapporo as a candidate city for hosting the XI Winter Olympic Games in 1972. And already in April 1966, the 64th session of the IOC took place in Rome, at which the question was decided that this Japanese city was destined to become the capital of the next, 11th white Olympics in a row. The decision of this session was doubly significant - after all, for the first time the Winter Olympic Games were to be held in Asia, which had never happened before.

Games emblem

Eight of Japan's top designers submitted their designs for the Olympics to the competition, but Kazumasa Nagai won and his design was eventually chosen as the official emblem for the Sapporo Olympics.

The emblem shows a combination of three elements that are absolutely independent of each other:
- the rising sun, a symbol of Japan;
- a snowflake, which is a symbol of winter;
- Olympic rings with the inscription "Sapporo '72".

Official poster of the Games

The plot of the Olympic poster is a snowy mountain peak combined with the emblem of the Games, based on a stylized snowflake, a similar image of which goes into deep antiquity. The composition was composed by Takashi Kono.

At the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the XI Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, one of the spectators drew the attention of the members of the organizing committee to the fact that the Olympic rings were incorrectly placed on the flag brought into the stadium. As you know, the order of the rings is legalized by the Olympic Charter: blue, yellow, black, green, red. And then it turned out that the flag with the "error" was hung out at all the Winter Games since 1952. And no one noticed.

For the first time the Games were held in Asia. As the organizers of the Games, the Japanese had little hope for the success of their athletes: after all, in their entire history they managed to win only one silver medal. The main objective of the Games was to demonstrate the social and economic transformations that have taken place in the country in the post-war decades. Therefore, about 4 thousand journalists were accredited in Sapporo.

Canadian hockey players boycotted the Olympics for the first time. They demanded that professionals be admitted to the Games, because not quite amateurs played for the USSR.

17-year-old Swiss Marie-Thérèse Nadig sensationally won two gold in skiing

Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov won gold in the Soviet duel - they were opposed by Lyudmila Smirnova and Andrey Suraikin

The Japanese adopted the Olympics to show the world the changes in their country after the war. For all the past winter Games Japan won only one silver medal. In Sapporo, jumpers from the 70-meter springboard distinguished themselves, occupying the entire podium

“How to run thirty? Yes...with him"

Vyacheslav Vedenin - main character Sapporo. Before thirty, he was approached by a Japanese journalist. Now, before the start, no one will be allowed near the athlete, but then - please. The Japanese asked how to run, because it snowed? Vedenin replied: "Yes ... with him." The Japanese thought that this was such a spell - "Dahushim". Local newspapers wrote about it.

Then the correspondents wandered freely, - Vedenin recalled in an interview with Alexander Kruzhkov and Yuri Golyshak. - Climbed into the soul. To poke them with a stick.

In the relay, Vedenin accomplished a feat - on final stage left with a delay of a minute and eight seconds from the Norwegians - for the "tens" it is years, and maybe centuries. The coaches even abandoned the walkie-talkies. Why lead him at a distance if there is no chance?

Vedenin was cunning. He pretended to be smearing his skis with might and main with blue "sweeks", although in fact he ran his finger over them. The Norwegian bought it and anointed it too. Vedenin knew that this ointment terribly slows down skis.

He also told the guys from the team to stand on the descent and shout “Vedenin!”. The Norwegian will turn his head - lose two seconds. The stick will slip - three. He turned around a few times...

As you understand, Vedenin came first. Received gold and was angry with the fans - 800 people arrived from Vladivostok on a ship and left the stadium before the final stage.