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:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)