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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“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“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)
“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)