Sports
- 1969: 1969 World Ice Hockey Championships — USSR-Czechoslovakia following the 1968 events in Czechoslovakia
- 1972: 1972 Summer Olympics — The USSR defeats the United States in a controversial gold medal game
- 1972: Canada-USSR Summit Series- Canada defeats the Soviets in this eight game series.
- 1980: The Miracle on Ice- The United States defeats the USSR in the 1980 Winter Olympics
- 1980: 1980 Summer Olympics boycott — by the United States
- 1984: 1984 Summer Olympics boycott — by the Soviet Union
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)