Lake Placid Winter Olympic preparations

Title

Lake Placid Winter Olympic preparations

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:01:22

Description

Report on preparations for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, following a threatened boycott by the USA of the summer games in Moscow over Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

USA; Politics; Foreign affairs; Sports competitions; Afghanistan; USSR; Demonstrations; Military affairs; Athletics; New York; Olympic games; Athletes; Moscow; East West relations; Lake Placid; Winter sports; Lord Killanin

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