History of Olympic Games. Unfinished Olympiad Summer Olympic Games 1952 Russian champions

TO When the President of the Republic of Finland, Paasikivi, declared the Games of the 15th Olympiad in 1952 open, fanfares rang out and six thousand dazzling white doves soared into the clear blue sky. In those same seconds, the Olympic Stadium exploded with cries of joy and delight. The noise ran through the stands, spreading from one to the other like a flame fanned by the wind. An elderly broad-shouldered man with a figure heavy with age raised in his hand the Olympic torch, which had just been handed over to him by the first of a galaxy of great Finnish athletes. Hannes Kolehmainen. A man with a torch ran to the bowl in which he was supposed to light the Olympic flame, and after him rolled: "Nurmi, Nurmi ..." No one knew in advance about the appearance of a great runner on the track of the stadium, and the effect was magnificent: the entire stadium stood up to greet his hero.

This is how the XV Olympic Games began on July 19, 1952 in the capital of Finland, Helsinki, at a stadium built specifically for the 1940 Olympics. They were attended by 4925 athletes from 69 countries. This was already the first record of the Olympics.

For the first time, athletes from the Bahamas, Ghana, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Israel, Indonesia, Nigeria, the Netherlands Antilles, Germany, Thailand, and South Vietnam took part in the Games. The athletes of the Soviet Union also made their debut at the Olympics.

The entry of USSR athletes into the Olympic movement marked a new stage in the history of the Games. In 1950, the organizing committee for the Helsinki Olympics sent an official invitation to Moscow to participate in the upcoming Games. Soviet sports organizations accepted this invitation. And on May 7, 1951, the IOC recognized the Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union.

In the unofficial team standings, the USSR team shared the championship with the US team - both scored 494 points each. Soviet athletes won 71 medals: 22 gold, 30 silver, 19 bronze. In competitions in gymnastics, freestyle and classical wrestling, shooting and weightlifting, athletes of the USSR took first place in the unofficial team standings, and in competitions in boxing, athletics, basketball and rowing - second places.

The first Olympic gold medal in the history of Soviet sports was awarded on July 20, 1952 to a discus thrower. Nina Romashkova (Ponomareva). Honored Master of Sports - an outstanding discus thrower who achieved great success in the fifties. Eight years after her first victory, she again became an Olympic champion, and won a bronze medal at the 1956 Games. Eight times - from 1951 to 1959 - she became the champion of the Soviet Union.

As a result of women's athletics competitions, the USSR team was the best in terms of the largest number of prize-winning places. In nine athletics for women, eight Olympic records have been updated, including five world records. One of them - in the shot put - was established by the Soviet athlete Galina Zybina; she became one of the best shot putters of the fifties, from 1952 to 1956 she set eight world records. Soviet discus throwers achieved an excellent result. During the awarding of the winners, all three upper steps of the podium were occupied by athletes with the emblem of the USSR on their chests: the first was a Muscovite Nina Romashkova, the second was also a Muscovite Elizabeth Bagryantseva and third - Nina Dumbadze from Tbilisi. Two silver medals (javelin throw and long jump) and a bronze medal (high jump) were won by Alexandra Chudina.

Male athletes set new Olympic records in nineteen out of twenty-four types of the program, repeated two Olympic records, and only three remained unchanged. Four records have surpassed world records. For the first time in the hammer throw, the "enchanted" sixty-meter mark was overcome. This was carried out by a twenty-year-old Hungarian thrower from the city of Tapolca Jozsef Cermak.
  An excellent result in the decathlon was shown by the hero of the London Games Robert Mathias- 7887 points. The young American overtook the second prize-winner by almost a thousand points.
  The Brazilian got his first gold medal in the triple jump by setting a world record Adémar Ferreira da Silva, the best triple jumper of the fifties. Four years later, at the Melbourne Olympics, he was again the first with a new Olympic record. By the way, the tireless Brazilian beat the world record five times. After finishing sports performances, he became a film actor and won the great love of the Brazilian audience.

IN the greatest Czech long-distance runner who set 18 world records between 1949 and 1954 became Olympic champion as early as 1948 in the 10,000 meters, and finished second in the 5,000 meters.

In Helsinki, he successfully defended his Olympic title in the 10,000 meters and received another gold medal in the marathon, and Zatopek competed in this competition for the first time. His wife Dana also became an Olympic champion in Helsinki, she competed in the javelin throw.

The athlete ended his career four years later when he ran the Melbourne Marathon and finished sixth, despite undergoing a hernia repair a few weeks before the 56 Olympics.

B swimming competitions aroused great interest. They brought together 650 people, almost 200 more than at the previous Olympics. New Olympic records were set at all distances included in the program of the Games. And in the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay, the Hungarian women's team set a new world record - 4 minutes 24.4 seconds. American won two gold medals Ford Konno- 1500m freestyle and 4 x 200m relay.

IN weightlifting tournament, which ended with a brilliant victory for the USSR team, was attended by 140 athletes from 42 countries. All Soviet athletes were awarded Olympic medals. They won three gold, three silver and one bronze medals. Rostovites became Olympic champions Ivan Udodov, Tbilisi Rafael Chimishkyan and Muscovite Trofim Lomakin.

H a real sensation was caused by Soviet gymnasts, who for the first time took part in official international competitions. Both men and women in great style won the first places. Two gold and five silver medals were won by the absolute champion of the Olympics Kharkov gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya. But he became the true hero of the Olympics, having won four gold and two silver medals.
The Messuhalli Hall in Helsinki, which can seat ten thousand spectators, was overcrowded every day. Gymnasts competed here. Everyone's attention was riveted on the newcomers, Olympic debutants - Soviet athletes. And although it was immediately clear that the newcomers were very strong, they still had to convincingly prove their superiority to the judges, they had to fight for every hundredth of a point. The victory depended not only on skill, but also on composure, willpower, complete dedication and, of course, on the irresistible desire for this victory, a great desire to hear the sounds of the anthem of the Soviet Union under the arches of Messukhalli.

And our guys proved their right to win. They fought to the end. After the vaults, they shared sixth and seventh places. And only the leader of our gymnastic squad, strict, short, invariably serious Victor Chukarin received 9.45 points. Victor was collected, outwardly calm. But only he knew what this calmness was worth.

After exercises on the crossbar, the Soviet team moved to second place. Ahead were only the Finns - the champions of the previous Games. On the crossbar, Chukarin received 9.8 points - the highest result in the first two days of the competition. On the second day, Viktor is again the best in the vault: he scored 19.2 points in the sum of two days. Nobody could get ahead of him. Chukarin's jump was perfected to filigree. One of the German gymnasts said that "the geometric accuracy of Chukarin's flight over the projectile can only be repeated with the help of a ruler and a compass." Mahi on a horse is best performed by Viktor's teammate Grant Shahinyan. The gymnast from Yerevan received the highest score - 9.9 points.

From projectile to projectile, Soviet gymnasts scored those points that were so necessary for victory. And finally, the team competition is over. The debutants, who captivated the audience with their skills from the first stage, are rightfully called the strongest team of the Olympics. The Soviet gymnasts scored 574.4 points, 6.9 points ahead of the Swiss team, for which all the 1950 world champions competed. The Swiss newspaper Gazette de Lausanne wrote about this: "The big surprise at the gymnastics competition was the success of the Russians. Their brilliant and friendly team was in good shape and clearly outperformed our compatriots". The best in this brilliant and friendly team - Viktor Chukarin - became the absolute champion of the XV Olympic Games. He was thirty-one at the time. Many athletes are already leaving at this age from big sport.

W there are gold, two silver and two bronze medals won by Soviet wrestlers in Helsinki. Among the freestyle wrestlers, the best became David Tsimakuridze middleweight and Arsen Mekokishvili- in heavy. The "classics" excelled Boris Gurevich(flyweight) Yakov Punkin(feather-weight), Shazam Safin(lightweight) and famous heavyweight Johannes Kotkas.

The Estonian wrestler was one of the strongest heavyweights of the late thirties and fifties. Three times he won the European Championship, four times he was the absolute champion of the USSR, eight times he won the national championship in classical wrestling, and in 1947 he won the national championship in freestyle wrestling. Kotkas was such a versatile athlete that in his collection of awards there is even a medal of the champion of the USSR in hammer throwing.

W Gold medals in fencing traditionally went to athletes from three countries - Hungary, Italy and France. Once again, the Hungarian saber fencers proved that they have no equal yet: they won the team championship and all three first places in the individual tournament. became the champion Pal Kovac, behind him - Aladar Gerevich And Tibor Bercelli.

The Italians won the epee fencing competition, won the individual championship Edoardo Mangiarotti, in addition to winning a silver medal in foil fencing. Both gold medals in foil fencers went to the French, in the individual championship the first was Christian d'Auriola. At three Olympics - 1948, 1952 and 1956 - "the best French fencer of all time", as the newspapers dubbed him, d "Oriola won four gold and two silver medals. In addition to the Olympics, there are eight world championship medals in his collection, of which seven are gold and one silver.

P The first Soviet Olympic rowing champion was a Leningrader. It was one of the sensations of the XV Olympiad. Many were sure that the Australian would win in single rowing Mervyn Wood, and he really was leading half the distance in the final. But Tyukalov powerfully spurts, his "Scythian" goes nose to nose with the Australian's boat and - a victorious finish! Spectators gathered on the shores of the Meilakhti Bay honored the Olympic champion - a student of the Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School named after V. Mukhina. Having lost to Tyukalov in Helsinki, Wood decided to transfer from a single boat to a double boat so that he would no longer meet with a dangerous competitor. What was the surprise of Wood, who came to the next Olympics in Melbourne, when he saw Tyukalov as part of the Soviet crew of the double pair. Wood did not know what the Soviet rower, changing his "role", was telling his comrades.
- At least now at least you won't have to race with Wood ...
Contrary to the wishes of both, they had to meet again at the Olympic competitions. And again, the Olympic gold went to Yuri Tyukalov. Now he has won with Alexander Berkutov. Having ceased to compete, Tyukalov became a graphic designer. The emblem, made according to his sketch, adorns the Znamya rowing club, with which Yuri Sergeevich still does not part. He is a coach, and his pupils successfully perform at major competitions and regattas.

IN an excellent example of great willpower was demonstrated at the Olympics by a Danish equestrian. At the age of twenty-three, when she was expecting her second child, Lis fell ill with infantile paralysis, and during the Games in Helsinki her leg was still paralyzed, but despite this, Hartel was able to win a silver medal in the Olympic Grand Prix in dressage. Four years later, she won her second Olympic silver medal.

H and the XV Olympiad, several demonstration performances were held. Teams from Sweden and Denmark showed a handball game, while teams from the Finnish Baseball League and the Finnish Workers' Sports Union showed Finnish baseball. The most massive were demonstration performances in gymnastics. 1175 athletes took part in them. The Helsinki Games went down in Olympic history as the Games that were not closed. The then President of the IOC Siegfried Edstrom at the solemn ceremony dedicated to the end of the Games, he delivered a long speech, but forgot to end it with the words prescribed by the Olympic Charter: "I declare the Games of the XV Olympiad closed." For two weeks in Helsinki, despite the cold, rain and north wind, a very warm, friendly atmosphere reigned. The friendly Finnish people have done a lot to create this atmosphere.

July 19 - August 3, 1952 in Helsinki, Finland hosted the Games of the XV Olympiad. It was a record number of Games athletes - 5429 from 69 countries. A total of 43 sets of medals in 149 disciplines were played in the competition.

For the first time, the USSR team took part in the starts (295 athletes from 10 union republics). Soviet athletes performed throughout the program, except for field hockey. Won 71 medals (22 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze).

At the debut Olympic Games for the USSR, gold medals were won in 6 sports - gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting, athletics, shooting, rowing. For the first time in history, Soviet athletes won medals in boxing, basketball, rowing and canoeing. In total, the USSR won medals in 9 sports. The first Soviet Olympic champion was Nina Romashkova (Ponomareva), who competed in discus throwing.

In women's athletics competitions, the USSR team was the best in terms of the largest number of prize-winning places. In nine athletics for women, eight Olympic records have been updated, including five world records.

140 athletes from 42 countries participated in the weightlifting tournament, which ended with a brilliant victory for the USSR team. All Soviet athletes were awarded Olympic medals. They won three gold, three silver and one bronze medals. Ivan Udodov, Rafael Chimishkyan and Trofim Lomakin became Olympic champions.

A real sensation was caused by Soviet gymnasts, who took part in official international competitions for the first time. Both men and women in great style won the first places. Two gold and five silver medals were won by the absolute champion of the Olympics, gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya. But the true hero of the Olympics was Viktor Chukarin, who won four gold and two silver medals.

Six gold, two silver and two bronze medals were won by Soviet wrestlers in Helsinki. Among the freestyle wrestlers, David Tsimakuridze in middleweight and Arsen Mekokishvili in heavyweight became the best. Boris Gurevich (flyweight), Yakov Punkin (featherweight), Shazam Safin (lightweight) and the famous heavyweight Johannes Kotkas scored among the "classics".

Yury Tyukalov became the first Soviet Olympic champion in rowing. This was also one of the sensations of the XV Olympiad.

Among the foreign athletes, stayer from Czechoslovakia Emil Zatopek and his wife, javelin thrower, Dana Zatopkova, distinguished themselves.

Oslo (Norway)

The White Games have finally taken place in a country that has been a leader in winter sports for more than a quarter of a century. Starts in Oslo have become a real holiday for athletes and the public. Skating competitions were held at the athletics stadium due to the huge interest of the audience and gathered a record 115 thousand people in the stands. In many ways, the success of the Games was predetermined by the fact that for the first time they were organized not in remote mountain resorts, but in the capital of a European power. In addition, the world has practically overcome the consequences of the Second World War - both economically and morally.

Venue: Oslo, Norway
February 14 - 25, 1952
Number of participating countries - 30
Number of athletes participating - 694 (109 women, 585 men)
Medal sets - 22
Overall Winner - Norway

The three main characters of the Games according to "SE"

Hjalmar Andersen (Norway),
skating
Antin Milordos (Greece),
skiing
Lydia Wiedeman (Finland),
ski race

RELAY STARTS FROM THE OVEN

Athletes from Japan and Germany, who were not invited to the previous Games for political reasons, returned to the Olympic family. East and West Germans were invited by the IOC to participate in the 1952 Olympics as part of the same team, but representatives of the GDR showed no interest in going to Oslo. The Soviet Union became a member of the IOC a year before the Games in Norway and considered sending its skiers, skaters and hockey players to Scandinavia. The decision was made at the highest political level, but it turned out to be negative, since the leadership of the Communist Party did not receive guarantees from the Soviet sports committee that our team would win in the overall standings. Competing with the Norwegians in their homeland would really be very difficult. In Oslo, they fully took revenge for a not very successful performance in St. Moritz 1948, significantly ahead of all competitors in terms of the number of medals.

Oslo won the right to host the Olympics from the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo and the American Lake Placid, and the IOC did not have to regret its choice. The Olympics was held at an excellent organizational level, which significantly raised the bar for all future hosts of the Games. For the first time at the Winter Games, the Olympic torch relay was held, and this was done in a peculiar style. The Norwegians, who were skeptical from the outset about the parallels between winter sports and the athletic traditions of ancient Hellas, did not copy the summer torch relays that started in Greece. On the eve of the 1952 Games, a symbolic flame was lit from a fireplace in the town of Myrgedal, the birthplace of the founder of skiing, Sondre Nordheim.

Trying to create a new tradition, the Norwegians emphasized their role as the progenitors of the snow and ice disciplines, and also pedaled the slogan of their Olympics - "winter sports have returned to their homeland." The initiative of the organizing committee "Oslo-1952" brought confusion to the Olympic community. Four years before the Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Italians will light a "winter fire" in the Roman Temple of Zeus, then the American organizers of the 1960 Olympics will return to Nordheim's house in Myurgedal. winter, and summer - will be held in the Temple of Hera in ancient Olympia.

But in 1952, the Norwegians established one of the traditions of the Winter Games. At the closing ceremony of the Olympics, the mayor of Oslo presented the IOC with the Olympic flag, which was soon recognized as the main banner of the Winter Games, and began to be transferred from one organizing committee to another. True, at present, the original Oslo flag at official events is replaced by its exact copy.

GERMAN HEAVYWEIGHTS

On the eve of the Oslo Games, the IOC, following the spirit of the times, expanded the representation in the women's Olympic program - athletes now have the opportunity to start in cross-country skiing, despite the fact that the Norwegians opposed this innovation. Another novelty was the appearance of counting machines in the arsenal of figure skating judges. This significantly speeded up the scoring process and made the competitions more attractive to fans. Another achievement was recorded in the figure skating tournament - 12-year-old French figure skater Alain Gillette became the youngest male athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics. In Oslo, the young Frenchman took only seventh place, but after eight years he will submit to the title of world champion.

The bobsleigh competition became a revelation. It dawned on the German team that heavy athletes have the advantage in the ice chute. Crews from Germany quickly shuffled their lineups, and as a result, a team with a total weight of over 470 kg, including the bob, entered the start line. The German heavyweights, led by the 120-kilogram Lorenz Nieberl, easily overtook the most titled rivals at that time - the Americans. After that, the International Bobsleigh Federation introduced restrictions on the weight of athletes - no more than 420 kg with a bean. In 2007, the feature film "Heavyweights" (Schwere Jungs) was made about resourceful German bobsledders in Germany.

The year 1952 opened the era of "Kenyan skiers" at the Winter Olympics - representatives of warm countries, whose uncompetitiveness and helplessness on the track arouses the tenderness of the public. The representative of Greece Antin Milordos in alpine skiing slalom fell 18 times on a track 400 meters long, but still earned applause from the fans. Exotics have competed at the White Games before, such as a Turkish skier in 1936 or a Lebanese slalom skier in 1948. But never before have such noteworthy outsiders become heroes in the eyes of the public. The Norwegians could well afford such complacency. By the way, in the women's slalom, the future American champion Andrea Meade-Laurence also fell in the first attempt, but managed to get up, finish with a decent time, and in the sum of two attempts, completely outstrip all her rivals. This is the only such event in the history of the Winter Olympics.

FAMILY CONTRACT

The main hero of the 1952 Games was the Norwegian speed skater Hjalmar Andersen. He won the distances of 5000 and 10000 m with a huge advantage, setting Olympic records on them. In the 1500 m race, Andersen also became the first, but here he was helped by a heavy snowfall that hit Oslo and prevented his rivals from improving Hjalmar's seconds. The only failed type for Norway was hockey, in which the hosts lost all matches. Canadians, who were represented by the amateur team "Edmonton Mercury", became Olympic champions on the hockey rink. But serious resistance to the “maple leaves” was provided by the Swedes, whom the founders of hockey defeated with a score of 3:2, having scored the winning goal 20 seconds before the final whistle. In addition, the Canadians tied the match 3:3 with their main competitors - the Americans.

The first skier in history to become an Olympic champion was 31-year-old Finn Lydia Wiedemann. In the post-war years, her twin sister Tinne was considered the leader of the Finnish women's team, but in 1950 she caught a cold during a competition near Moscow, fell ill with pneumonia and was forced to end her performances. The reputation of the family in Oslo 1952 was supported by Lydia, who won the 10 km race with an advantage over the nearest pursuer in a whole minute.

The American figure skater Richard Button also went down in history. In order to become the Olympic champion in figure skating for the second consecutive time, it was enough for him to calmly skate the final type of the program in Oslo. Instead, Button showed the audience dizzying stunts, among which was a three-turn jump, which had never been performed before in major competitions. According to the results of an impeccably skated program, all nine judges gave Richard the highest marks. In two weeks, Button will win the world title for the fifth time and end his amateur career.

Once again about the 1952 Olympics. As you know, the favorite entertainment of Stalin and his henchmen Beria and Postyshev was to shoot people. Like this: no day is perfect if at least one human rights activist, gay or independent journalist is not shot. That is why Stalin ordered to shoot every athlete (even a disguised NKVD officer) if he gets a place lower than third in the competition. Moreover, the bloody Ghoul wanted precisely the loss of the athletes - after all, the execution lists and the execution plan for the III quarter of 1952 had already been approved, and the plan, as you know, had to be overfulfilled! Therefore, athletes won the Olympics in Helsinki not because of, but in spite of Stalin. They were simply forced to win gold and silver medals to spite the Tirana, because bronze did not always save them from the cold basements of the Lubyanka. Although many of them perfectly understood that it was necessary not to win, but to lose and conscientiously repent for every murdered German, raped German woman and shed tear of a child!

Bloody Olympics

It is very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to find photographs of athletes in 1952 who did not take places on the podiums in Helsinki. During the lunch break, I managed to get only these photographs ... The fact that there are no photographs of 1952 inevitably indicates that all these people were destroyed in the basements of the NKVD. The absence of lifetime photographs of 1952 is the best evidence of the bloody drama that played out on the stage of the Lubyanka theater!

Yuri Deksbakh, Lev Saychuk, Iozas Udras did not pass the qualifying round in fencing. I could not find information about their future fate, but I'm sure they all suffered a sad fate. Unfortunately, I also could not find intravital photographs of 1952, so I post these:

All these people were shot in 1952, when some of them were not even 16 years old!

Soviet rowers: they were all destroyed by the repressive machine in 1952

The football team in 1952 lost to Yugoslavia - all the players were shot!

Unforgettable unforgivable!

XV Summer Olympic Games were held from July 19 to August 3, 1952 in Helsinki (Finland).

An interesting fact: it was in the same time period on July 19 - August 3 exactly 28 years later that the Moscow Olympiad took place.
The idea of ​​holding the Olympics in Finland was first voiced back in 1912, when Finnish athletes performed brilliantly at the Olympics in Stockholm.
After Tokyo refused to host the 1940 Olympics in 1937, the IOC approved the candidacy of Helsinki as the capital of the future Olympic Games.
However, the Olympiad was never destined to take place, due to the outbreak of the Second World War.

After its completion, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Opening of the Olympics in Helsinki 1952

The games began on July 19, 1952.
The runner Paavo Nurmi, who had finished his career by this time, lit the Olympic flame, and the parade of participants began.

Athletes from the USSR made their debut at the Olympic Games for the first time and immediately took second place in the team, leaving only the US team ahead.
Olympic host Finland was eighth with 22 medals, including six golds.

The games were attended by 4925 athletes, 518 of whom were women.
69 countries took part in the competition, between which a total of 43 sets of medals in 149 categories were played.
Representatives of the Soviet Union team participated in all types of the Olympic program, except for field hockey.

There were 295 people in our team (255 men, 40 women), they won 22 gold, 30 silver and 19 bronze medals. At the debut Olympic Games for the USSR, gold medals were won in 6 sports - gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting and athletics, shooting, rowing. For the first time in history, medals have been won in boxing, basketball, rowing and canoeing. In total, they won medals in 9 sports.

Our men's and women's gymnastics teams, wrestlers, weight lifters and track and field athletes performed most successfully.

At the same time, a long-term confrontation between Soviet and American basketball players began.

Teams of the USSR and the USA in basketball after the end of the match. Years of confrontation lies ahead

Unfortunately, the failure befell our players. After losing in the 1/8 finals to the Yugoslav national team, they dropped out of the competition.

Considering that relations between Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and Josip Broz Tito had completely deteriorated by that moment, Soviet football players were accused of "causing serious damage to the prestige of the Soviet state."
The base team of the national team - CDSA (Moscow) - was disbanded for "irresponsible behavior in a duel with Yugoslavia" team leaders Anatoly Bashashkin and Konstantin Krizhevsky were disqualified for a year, Konstantin Beskov was accused of cowardice, and head coach Boris Arkadyev was deprived of the title of Honored Master of Sports.

But, in general, the Soviet leadership remained quite the first performance of Soviet athletes at the Olympics.

"Victory of Soviet Sports"

"On August 3, the closing of the XV International Olympic Games took place in Helsinki in a solemn atmosphere.

The intense competition of athletes from 70 countries, which lasted 16 days, ended with the victory of Soviet athletes, who took first place in terms of points ...

Inspired by the love, attention and paternal care of the Bolshevik Party, the Soviet government and Comrade Stalin personally, our athletes raised the banner of Soviet sports high and glorified their great homeland with their victories.

In the competition with foreign athletes, the athletes of the Soviet Union brilliantly confirmed the superiority of the Soviet system of physical education and Soviet socialist culture over the bourgeois one.

Helsinki 1952 last real Olympics

The Olympic Games in Helsinki are called the last real Olympics.
These were games where the precepts of Pierre de Coubertin were fully respected, and the games were completely free from commercialization and scandals.

The Olympic Games in Helsinki were increasingly remembered, in the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, when doping scandals began to arise more and more often, commercial gain and political ambitions were put at the forefront, accompanied by a terrorist attack in 1972, and various political boycotts. motives.

The Olympic Games in Helsinki were smaller than others, but they will forever go down in the history of the world Olympic movement.

The closing of the Olympic Games took place on August 3, 1952.