The "Friendship Games"

The event

The Friendship Games, or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84), was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Although Friendship Games officials denied that the Games were to be a counter-Olympic event to avoid conflicts with the International Olympic Committee, the competition was often dubbed the Eastern Bloc's "alternative Olympics". The USSR had also tried to found a alternate Olympiad between the 1st and 2nd World War with Spartakiad.

Participants

1. Afghanistan
2. Algeria
3. Angola
4. Argentina
5. Austria
6. Belgium
7. Brazil
8. Bulgaria
9. Canada
10. China
11. Colombia
12. Cuba
13. Czechoslovakia
14. Denmark
15. East Germany
16. Ethiopia
17. Finland
18. France
19. Great Britain
20. Greece
21. Guyana
22. Hungary
23. India
24. Italy
25. Japan
26. Laos
27. Lebanon
28. Madagascar
29. Mongolia
30. Morocco
31. Netherlands
32. Nicaragua
33. North Korea
34. Norway
35. Poland
36. Portugal
37. Romania
38. South Yemen
39. Soviet Union
40. Spain
41. Sweden
42. Switzerland
43. Syria
44. Tanzania
45. United States
46. Venezuela
47. Vietnam
48. West Germany
49. Yugoslavia
50. Zimbabwe

Events

1. Archery
2. Athletics
3. Basketball
4. Boxing
5. Canoeing
6. Cycling
7. Diving
8. Equestrian
9. Fencing
10. Field hockey
11. Gymnastics
12. Handball
13. Judo
14. Modern pentathlon
15. Rowing
16. Sailing
17. Shooting
18. Swimming
19. Table tennis
20. Tennis
21. Volleyball
22. Water polo
23. Weightlifting
24. Wrestling

Medal table

The following table is based on statistics from the books Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984 and Gwiazdy sportu '84 and does not include sambo wrestling results.

1	USSR	126	87	69	282
2	GDR	50	45	43	138
3	Bulgaria	21	25	29	75
4	Cuba	15	11	12	38
5	Hungary	10	17	24	51
6	Poland	7	17	34	58
7	DPRK	5	5	10	20
8	Czechoslovakia	2	18	28	48
9	PRC	2	1	4	7
10	Ethiopia	1	2	2	5
11	FRG	1	1	1	3
12	Italy	1	1	0	2
13	Japan	1	0	0	1
14	Mongolia	0	2	5	7
15	Canada	0	1	0	1
16	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
17	Finland	0	0	1	1
17	Sweden	0	0	1	1
17	Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1
Total		242	233	266	741

 The Goodwill Games

The Summer Goodwill games

This event spawned the Goodwill Games.

The Seychelles and the Bahamas amongst the new competing nations. Estonia, Kazakhstan and Russia were amongst the ex-Soviet states in it.

Trampolining and Taekwondo were among the new sports added.

Edition	Year	Host City	Country	Notes
1986 Goodwill Games I	1986	Moscow	USSR	3,000 athletes and 79 countries
1990 Goodwill Games II	1990	Seattle	USA	2,300 athletes and 54 countries
1994 Goodwill Games III	1994	Saint Petersburg	Russia	2,000 athletes and 59 countries
1998 Goodwill Games IV	1998	New York City	USA	1,300 athletes and 60 countries
2001 Goodwill Games V	2001	Brisbane	Australia	Final edition- 1,300 athletes and nations N/A, beyond obviously Australia as host and Russia as moral founder of the games.
VI	2005	Phoenix, Arizona	USA	Games cancelled

The Winter Goodwill Games

Edition	Year	Host city	Country	Notes
2000 Goodwill Winter Games I	2000	Lake Placid, New York	USA	Only Winter Goodwill Games held. Contestants and nations N/A, beyond obviously the USA as host and Russia as moral founder of the games.
II	2005	Calgary, Alberta	Canada	Games cancelled

• The sorts included were-

1. Alpine skiing
2. Bobsleigh
3. Cross country running
4. Figure skating
   1. At the 2000 Games, the figure skating event featured professional skaters because of conflicts with Olympic-eligible skaters competing in their national championships. This enabled France's Surya Bonaly to become the only skater in history to win the same event as both an amateur and professional skater as she also won in 1994.
5. Freestyle skiing
6. Luge
7. Nordic combined
8. Skeleton
9. Ski jumping
10. Snowboarding
11. Speed skating

Also see

1. Heidi Krieger/Andreas Krieger
2. Sport

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_Games
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartakiad
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Games