4x400m Relay - 1980 Moscow Olympics

[@pesokit]

Маркин конечно хорошо был готов. Молодец!

[@poiu7777uiop]

Великолепный забег, великолепная борьба, великолепные спортсмены. Это был праздник спорта, и никакой политики. Только спорт. Браво СССР, браво Москва!

[@REDVECTOR31]

Победил СОВЕТСКИЙ спорт. И нечего больше говорить

[@JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD]

@@REDVECTOR31 lol they had the best drugs in those days...now the Jamaicans and USA teams do.

[@a.caplikas3858]

Странно - вы сами говорите о политике, но утверждаете, что политики не было :)

[@APBCTechnique]

@@REDVECTOR31Soviet drugs helped them win via their doctors and scientists helping them cheat

[@ChristovMr]

Love watching these old clips of relay finals. What a race it turned out to be - very exciting! Thanks for posting!

[@stevebbuk]

Rather an eerie atmosphere I thought..

[@АлександрРева-о6ж]

Молодцы парни! проявили силу воли!

[@ГрафСвинХрюкин]

Маркин был тогда в отличной форме. Наши молодцы. Сборная ГДР тоже сильна.

[@vladig6649]

Молодцы !

[@ePanther]

Михаил Линге (2-й этап) после олимпиады связался с нехорошей компанией. Сидел в тюрьме лет 8. Читал про него. Отличный спортсмен, но так сложилось.

[@ТаняМедкова-ш2я]

Умнички. Наша гордость

[@joeryan82]

Fantastic race.

[@НиколайМанонин-э6э]

Красавцы ! Помню этот финал . Спорт в Советском Союзе был на высочайшем уровне ! Американцев не было , но это их проблемы .

[@a.caplikas3858]

Видимо вы забыли, что американцы в том году бегали даже на 4 секунды быстрее:))

[@vpchance9498]

The result of the Russian winners at the 1980 Olympics was 3:01.08. The result of the US team at the alternative Olympics competition in Philly, which happened in the same month, was 3:03.20.

[@kerstinsulzer8399]

It is a pity, that some Western Countrys boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games because of some questionable reasons. Despite of that this relay was very exciting. It was a very close race between the USSR and the GDR. So cheers to all the athletes that has been involved.

[@mr.sinjin-smyth]

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the main reason the US, UK + Allies boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics. Ironic since Afghanistan would be the Soviet's "Vietnam", and the main catalyst along with Gorbachev's crazy reforms that led to the USSR's collapse in 1991. Anyway, the Soviets + Allies would then counter boycott the next 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

[@trickygoose2]

@@mr.sinjin-smyth The UK didn't boycott the Moscow Olympics.

[@Chief_Brody]

@@mr.sinjin-smyth what are you blathering on about? Great Britain were at these Games. How can you not know about Coe & Evett in the 800m/1500m??

[@javelin64]

Pietro Mennea, poco inquadrato corse una magnifica staffetta per l'Italia

[@LaZanzaraReturn]

E a lui passò il testimone Tozzi, mio compagno di allenamento :)

[@MissPetalaDewi]

Would love to see the women's relay. Where can I watch it?

[@antonmihalik7096]

Молодцы Русские - СССР!!!!! Привет из Словакии! 🌺❤️🇷🇺👍

[@drahusp6325]

🇸🇰

[@antonmihalik7096]

​@@drahusp6325Братья навсегда,Мы, Слааиане ❤❤❤

[@drahusp6325]

@@antonmihalik7096 Áno bratia. Celkom iste aj Ukrajinci s Rusmi by veci bratsky poriešili keby sa do toho nemontuje USA/UK...

[@a.caplikas3858]

@@antonmihalik7096 Ремигиус Валиулис не славянин. Он литовец. Кстати, он стартовал третьим и передал эстафету лидером.

[@antonmihalik7096]

@@a.caplikas3858 И литовцы к какому то кменю принадлежат, если они не Славяне.. Я читал мнения многих генетиков,что в их кровы Славянские гены...

[@СергейКраснобаев-щ8н]

Великие и приятные времена были....

[@a.caplikas3858]

И никто не проверял, употребляют ли советские спортсмены допинг:))

[@christos9812]

what ignorant commentators!The anchor runner for the winning team is none other than the 400M gold medallist Victor Markin and not Biryukof.

[@johnstirling9120]

The late , great Ron Clarke co-commentating, So , If they were running 10,000 meters, no problem!

[@starmersbarber]

I agree...ridiculous not knowing who the athletes are...it's like Alan Partridge commentating!

[@Speedrcr5]

Let’s put this ignorance, as you say, in perspective. This was a commentary broadcast back to Australia. Details of every person in the field (late, great or otherwise) made little difference to anyone. And, really, 40 years later it still doesn’t. That fact that aficionados seem aghast that something about someone wasn’t mentioned has so little relevance. This commentary stands the test of time. Everyone knows the countries, everyone knows who is who. The excitement was captured quite magnificently. It was called like a race - which after all it was - and not a reading of an encyclopaedia. Was the team sheet wrong? They can only go on what is in front of them. Either way, it was great to watch and nit-picky historians even a century later will just have to please themselves.

[@normanlinden5786]

@@Speedrcr5 - how would you feel if, say, British or American announcers misidentified the the swimmers on an Aussie gold medal winning relay team?

[@Speedrcr5]

@@normanlinden5786 Couldn’t care less 40 years later. But listen to what they say when the teams on on the screen. Ron saying he’s surprised he’s not on their sheet. Keyboard critics four decades later can take all the offence they like.

[@Алексей-о1э2ы]

Маркин Красава вытянул 👍

[@евгенийиванов-и2щ8б]

красивая победа!

[@bbatjargal1549]

The legendary Soviet 4X400 relay team.

[@peteryoo4211]

What went wrong with Italy 1980 Moscow bronze medal winning team to finished 5th at Los Angeles 1984?

[@normanlinden5786]

Better teams in LA. Italy ran 3:04.3 in Moscow to win bronze. Four years later they ran in 3:01.44 yet finished fifth.

[@СтаниславЦыганков-г2з]

Маркин в конце круто добавил.

[@REDVECTOR31]

Viva

[@redrum4100]

I wouldn't have picked glen for the squad. Good runner but you knew he wasn't going to get the baton round, and sure enough...

[@daveyork0]

Why is he saying 'Russia' when then was the Soviet Union, distinguished by CCCP on their uniforms

[@spirosops530]

Who will remember the red fascists???

[@dighechetarik438]

Grod obsrvt

[@davebesag]

Because that's just about everyone said at the time and to be fair Russia is seen as the successor state to the USSR.

[@normanlinden5786]

@@davebesag - that doesn't matter. Those Olympics were held in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. The announcers could have gotten the name of he host country right. That's part of their job.

[@trickygoose2]

Aussies, Americans, Brits etc often said 'Russia' or 'Russia' in those days rather than Soviet Union or USSR. Valiulis was Lithuanian and Linge Estonian.

[@thomasmckenzie4584]

3:01.08. Well that would get you about 5th place at the NCAAs.

[@david2804me]

Did you know that 1980 was over 40 years ago?....so, in fact, the video shows how good they were back then....thanks mainly to drugs though haha.

[@JesusChristISTHEONETRUEGOD]

@@david2804me and today’s PED drug abuse IS WORSE THAN EVER....except now the western governments are aiding and abetting the Jamaican track and USA track sprinters even more than the Soviets did. Brainwashed whites don’t want to admit it though

[@trickygoose2]

@@david2804me in those days 3:01.08 would usually win the NCAAs.

[@paulg444]

Announcer never identified even one of the runners by name.. that is weird.

[@MrSniganoo]

Couldn’t be bothered to learn the names.

[@FelipoCoelho]

Grande Pegado

[@johnsbox]

It wasn't Russia Mr Australian commentator, but the Soviet Union at that time!

[@trickygoose2]

For a start, Valiulis would be Lithuanian.

[@Speedrcr5]

Chortle!

[@АндрейАндрей-м7ы]

Валюлис Линге Чернецкий Маркин

[@a.caplikas3858]

Р. Валиулис скончался 19 июля. Рак... Он был хорошим бегуном, честным бизнесменом и прекрасным человеком...

[@tfrf0042]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@IANupe104]

3:01 Wow... Thats a shame.

[@normanlinden5786]

The Soviet leadoff runner, Remigius Valiulis, stepped on the inside lane about a dozen times coming around the second curve. The USSR should have been disqualified.

[@francishunt562]

Not going to happen in Moscow.

[@normanlinden5786]

@@francishunt562 -- Yep, so true. Sadly.

[@ЛюдмилаРусских-у6ч]

Вот это был спорт! Это была борьба!!! Ребята отстаивали честь огромной страны! Респект спортсменам тех лет!!!! А каковы болельщики! Не фанаты беспредельщики, а именно болельщики, от слова болеть!!!!

[@ЧеловекСвободный-д8д]

Другая реальность

[@davidchristians100]

Rawwwaw

[@david2804me]

Brilliant what you can do with the right drugs all researched and produced with unlimited state financing. The good old days of undisguised cheating haha.

[@voulondesirae5989]

Its just your assumption.

[@david2804me]

@@voulondesirae5989 No it isn't. It is the firm belief of just about everybody who has a decent knowledge of athletics that the 70s, 80s and 90s were drug-fuelled times. Women benefitted more than men (testosterone substitutes) which is why almost all of the women's world records today in the sprints (and the 800m), the long and high jumps and the heptathlon were all set back in the 80s and have still not been beaten. Check them out. Back then, the USSR and all the eastern block countries had state-sponsored drug programmes...other countries did not but still used drugs unofficially under the auspices of individual coaches. Some were caught (eg. Ben Johnson) but others were not (Jackie Joyner, Florence Griffiths-Joyner)

[@francishunt562]

I take your point, but the western athletes doped just as much as their eastern bloc counterparts. Still very prevalent to this day.

[@david2804me]

@@francishunt562 not true. The huge difference was that PED research and administration was state-funded in the Eastern bloc countries and every athlete was involved. That was not the case in the West where it was a private entreprise albeit fairly widespread.

[@apoire44]

Jeaaalouuuus 😅

[@bantuvoicemuchaikinuthia2536]

I feel sad for the East Germany Pride.

[@poiu7777uiop]

Советские спортсмены никогда не пользовались наркотиками. Они просто о них ничего не знали, как не знал о них и я и все советские люди. Наркотики пришли с запада, и не могли пересечь советскую границу. Прекратите демонизировать советское время. Там люди тренировались у Великих тренеров, выступали за свою Родину и потому такие результаты. Это была Великая страна с Великими людьми.

[@ванькаиванов-г6к]

На метане и станозололе бегали все не тупи

[@poiu7777uiop]

@@ванькаиванов-г6к Да иди ты полем...

[@viktorfisher403]

@@poiu7777uiop , этот "ванька" вполне возможно засланный казачок из незалежной или местный губодуй, который всем недоволен.

[@poiu7777uiop]

@@viktorfisher403 Вполне вероятно. Да и хрен с ними. Пусть бесятся.

[@osada520]

Я виктора Маркова видел в живую

[@yelyto__4476]

💕 💕 💕 💕 💕

[@ap5113]

The best olympics.

[@mondsonne6686]

Die Hochburg des Dopings, machen Platz 1 und 2 unter sich aus!

[@GeoAce777]

RIDICULOUS

[@darrylnimmons1334]

1st time I've scene track and field race with only 1 black face loosing . U here where No BLACK AMERIC AS NS ON THAT TRACK BIG SURPRISE RUSSUA

[@zabag]

Darryl Nimmons The US decided not to send athletes to the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games.

[@doc7887]

Все рыжие, как на подбор, как близнецы! Наверное, татары.

[@АнатолийХапов]

Сколько же фармы принимали в то время!!!

[@viktorfisher403]

Да, к тому же еще наши бежали на четырех ногах, потому видимо и побеждали. Какая разница, кто и что пьет и курит. Каждый сам хозяин собственному здоровью. А сейчас одна фармоиндустрия вытеснила другую, но спорт не стал чище - просто " судьи" стали очень избирательны в своих решениях. Если бы для США нашелся свой "родченков", результат оказался бы похожим. Но им повезло, и теперь они "святые", а Россию сделали козлом отпущения.

[@ГрафСвинХрюкин]

Ага! А сейчас видимо не принимают, а результаты растут без фармы. Вы сами то в это верите?!

[@mikey6538]

no USA team.. surprise they didn't qualify for the final?

[@travelnerd2353]

Sort of ;-)

[@darrenshaw767]

Thats because of their wanker President boycotting the games.

[@totallyTube-ular]

No, the U.S. boycotted these Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier.

[@poiu7777uiop]

Mi Key Сборная США была дисквалифицирована. Вот потому её и не было.

[@quadbravo]

@@darrenshaw767 Yep. Leftist-Democrat Jimmy Carter.

[@davidjohnson8504]

Yea the US got whipped in 1983 they came out 5th in the world chanpionships

[@darrenshaw767]

Hardly whipped when Willie Smith went down on the top bend on the third leg. Only three nations have beaten the States properly in the World champs or Olympics since 1983. Great Britain, Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.

[@Better_V]

Гдр тоже сильны были.

[@michaeltodd3067]

Some Americans --- geez --- RIGHT impressed with themselves ... Lol

[@quadbravo]

America boycotted this Olympics otherwise we'd have won.

[@oakiarg]

debe ser el evento donde mas golpeo el boicot

[@nataliaacuna9234]

La invasión a Afganistán fue un pretexto para los países que boicotearon porque seguramente hubieran Sido derrotados por estos tremendos atletas rusos con un rendimiento pocas veces visto en una pista.!!! De otro planeta!!!

[@marcelochuk]

The first and second brazilian ran very bad

[@videodj84]

this should be called dope vs dope💉

[@francishunt562]

Similar way for western athletes... Ben Johnson, Marion Jones, Al Oerter, Angela Issajenko etc

[@truth8508]

США бойкотировали эти олимпиады, так что на самом деле не настоящие чемпионы.

[@Sargebri]

Half these teams wouldn't have even made the final if it was a fully contested games. The US would have destroyed these scrubs.

[@Fatima502]

Well they didn't do much 'destroying' at the fully contested World Championships three years later, Brian. The USSR won that too, from Germany with the US 'scrubs' fifth. And it was Viktor Markin on the anchor here (as the early graphic confirms), not Viktor Burakov

[@Sargebri]

Yeah, but if you remember, the guy who was running the penultimate leg fell. If he hadn't, they had Edwin Moses running anchor.

[@bbatjargal1549]

In 1988 Seoul Olympics, the US team was beaten and whipped badly by the Mighty Soviet Team!

[@ericforster2970]

At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the US team equalled the world record of 2:56.16, a full 5 seconds faster than this exhibition. The Soviets failed to make the final...

[@anthonywilde3224]

and there wasn't any doping by the eastern block countries either right? (sarcasm)

[@ianshaw8428]

Full of drugs

[@poiu7777uiop]

IAN SHAW Наркотики у тебя в голове. Советский спорт никогда не пользовался наркотиками. Там были Великие тренеры, Великие спортсмены и они выступали за свою страну СССР. Вот потому такие результаты. То же самое касается и все социалистические страны. Они сражались не за деньги а за свои Великие страны. А что касается наркотиков, то это проблема только запада, где они свободно развивались. За наркотики в СССР можно было получить большой срок в тюрьме.

[@marianpatek2623]

The games of doping celebration.

[@globetrotterwien]

Russia 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋

[@mondsonne6686]

Die Hochburg des Dopings, machen Platz 1 und 2 unter sich aus!