1980 olympics

Moscow Olympics 1980 Sport Peace Friendship - original vintage Summer Olympic Games poster by A Chantsev listed on AntikBar.co.uk

Just stumbled across this photo from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Leonid Taranenko, Valentin Khristov, Gyorgy Szalai. Something felt wrong about it, so I found the original.

Erase una vez una olimpiada, donde se introdujo por primera vez el concepto de mascota y para ello eligieron un símbolo patrio;el oso y a un gran artista Victor Chizikov. Asi nació el osito Misha que pronto seria más famoso que la propia celebración olimpiada de moscu 80 (hubo boicot de muchos paises entre ellos USA)y aunque no seria recordado como los mejores juegos olímpicos si lo sería su ceremonia de clausura cuando lanzaron un enorme globo en forma de la mascota Misha.Dicho globo fue…

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Misha, 1980 Olympics, USSR

Moscow.

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The Olympic mascot Misha during the closing ceremony of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.

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