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Russia at the Olympics

Russian athletes first competed at the Olympic Games in 1900, then in 1908 and 1912. For a long time they were then part of the team from the Soviet Union. After the break up of the USSR in 1991, Russian athletes competed as part of the Unified Team at the 1992 Games, then as Russia again in 1996 and ever since.

• Russia have hosted the Olympic Games once, in Moscow 1980. These were the first Games to be held in a communist country.

• In 2000, Russian gymnast Alexei Nemov took home six medals, as he had done in Atlanta in 1996 four years earlier.

Related Pages

• information about the Soviet Union at the Olympics
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• 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow
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