Editing 1980 Summer Olympics (section)

==Events, records and drug tests==
There were 203 events – more than at any previous Olympics. 36 world records, 39 European records and 74 Olympic records were set at the games. In total, this was more records than were set at Montreal. New Olympic records were set 241 times over the course of the competitions and world records were beaten 97 times.

Though no athletes were caught doping at the 1980 Summer Olympics, it has been revealed that athletes had begun using [[testosterone (medication)|testosterone]] and other drugs for which tests had not been yet developed. According to British journalist [[Andrew Jennings]], a [[KGB]] colonel stated that the agency's officers had posed as anti-doping authorities from the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) to undermine [[doping test]]s and that Soviet athletes were "rescued with [these] tremendous efforts".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/the-1980-moscow-olympics-rank-as-the-cleanest-in-history-athletes-recall-how-the-u-s-s-r-cheated-the-system-/30741567.html |title=The 1980 Olympics Are The 'Cleanest' In History. Athletes Recall How Moscow Cheated The System. |last1=Aleksandrov |first1=Alexei |last2=Aleksandrov |first2=Grebeniuk |last3=Runets |first3=Volodymyr |publisher= |date=22 July 2020 |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |access-date=26 December 2021}}</ref> A 1989 report by a committee of the [[Australian Senate]] claimed that "there is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games, certainly not a gold medal winner...who is not on one sort of drug or another: usually several kinds. The Moscow Games might well have been called the Chemists' Games".<ref name="Hunt2007">{{cite book|author=Thomas Mitchell Hunt|title=Drug Games: The International Politics of Doping and the Olympic Movement, 1960—2007|year=2007|isbn=978-0-549-16219-3|pages=95–}}</ref>

A member of the IOC Medical Commission, Manfred Donike, privately ran additional tests with a new technique for identifying abnormal levels of testosterone by measuring its ratio to [[epitestosterone]] in [[urine]]. Twenty percent of the specimens he tested, including those from sixteen gold medalists would have resulted in disciplinary proceedings had the tests been official.<ref name="Hunt2007"/> The results of Donike's unofficial tests later convinced the IOC to add his new technique to their testing protocols.<ref name="D. Derse2001">{{cite book|first1=Wayne (Ph.D.)|last1=Wilson|first2=Ed|last2=Derse|title=Doping in Élite Sport: The Politics of Drugs in the Olympic Movement|url=https://archive.org/details/dopinginelitespo00wils|url-access=registration|access-date=19 July 2012|year=2001|publisher=Human Kinetics|isbn=978-0-7360-0329-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dopinginelitespo00wils/page/77 77]–}}</ref> The first documented case of "[[blood doping]]" occurred at the 1980 Summer Olympics as a runner was transfused with two pints of blood before winning medals in the 5000&nbsp;m and 10,000&nbsp;m.<ref name="Sytkowski2006">{{cite book|first=Arthur J.|last= Sytkowski|title=Erythropoietin: Blood, Brain and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v135CsEL_LQC&pg=PA187|access-date=19 July 2012|date=May 2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3-527-60543-9|pages=187–}}</ref>