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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1980
		The Miracle on Ice is the popular nickname for the mens ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the...
		The Dominican embassy siege was the 1980 siege of the embassy of the Dominican Republic by M-19 guerrillas in BogotÃ¡, Colombia.
		Badge, released in the USSR The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1980/Events (7559 words)

	Olympic Games Ticket 1980 Moscow
		The upper part was red and remained the same for all the tickets bearing the official emblem of the Games of the XXII Olympiad and the words "Moscow 1980.
		The lower part had a background of protective multiple design consisting of the official emblem of the Games and their year made in one of six colours depending on location of the venue in Moscow.
		Other protective elements were distinctly outlined watermarks in the shape of the official emblem of the Games and their year executed in several tints.
	www.olympic-museum.de /ticket/ticket1980.htm (651 words)

	1980 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America.
		This was the second time the Games were held in Lake Placid.
		The winner of the games was the USSR who won 10 golds, 6 silvers and 6 bronze.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics (398 words)

	Copyright & Trademark law - Computer games from the 1980's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Numerous enterprising computer games orientated youth, are copying the old games of the 1980's onto disks and selling them as "compilation game packs" to 3rd party buyers.
		Firstly, irrespective of the availability in the marketplace, these games are subject to copyright, and in the UK this copyright is for 70 years from the end of the first year it was published (The timeframe is similar in most other Western countries).
		No games brought out in the 1980's are outside that 70 year boundary, so they are still under copyright.
	www.ufo.org /a/copyright-computer-games-1980s.htm (335 words)

	Olympic Summer Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the emblem for China’s journey toward the 2008 Olympic Games, Dancing Beijing reveals the heart of an ancient culture embracing the modern world, the spirit of a people moving toward a new destiny.
		For the world’s largest nation, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are the ultimate gesture of friendship, a global expression of hope that the community of nations will dance with Beijing and join its dream of a world united in peace through sport.
		It was at the Montreal 1976 Games that, for the first time in the history of the Games, technology played a role in the torch relay.
	www.swim2000.org /Olympics/olympic_summer_games.htm (879 words)

	1980 Olympics — FactMonster.com
		Over 1,100 athletes from 37 countries participated in the 1980 Winter Games, but the only ones most people will ever remember are 21–year-old American speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five individual gold medals, and the U.S. hockey team—a bunch of college kids (average age 22) who beat the unbeatable Russians.
		That game was played on Feb. 22—five days short of exactly 20 years after the 1960 U.S. team beat the USSR, 3–2, on their way to the gold medal at Squaw Valley.
		Games against common opponents carried over from the preliminary round.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0300770.html (494 words)

	USA Basketball: Men's Olympic History - 1980
		The 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow were tainted by the political repercussions of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
		The 1980 USA men's basketball team, coached by Dave Gavitt, was the youngest team in the history of men's Olympic basketball.
		In the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the favored Soviet Union squad was upended twice in the semifinal round and was eliminated from the hunt for the gold medal.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/moly_1980.html (449 words)

	Top Video Games of 1980-1984 quiz -- free game
		Yet another game by Atari released in 1980 was this game where the objective of the player was to blast missiles at enemy lasers shooting down to Earth.
		The game put the player into the role of Harry, and his job was to use vines, and other jungle plants to avoid pits, alligators and other obstacles.
		This game, released in 1983 for the arcade, was the first that the gaming community ever saw of 'Jumpman's' Mario incarnation.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz2382981b48b38.html (476 words)

	Classic '80s Games : Play Now!
		If you haven't played this all time classic game it must be because you've been hiding out in a shack on top of a mountain in Montana for the last 20+ years.
		The object of the game is to memorize Simon's sequence of lights.
		This classic game first appeared at the arcades in 1981, and was the first to introduce such characters as Mario, Donkey Kong and Peach.
	www.80smusiclyrics.com /games.shtml (1435 words)

	Winter Games History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The victors of the early Games were crowned with wreaths made from a sacred olive tree near the temple of Zeus.
		The first Winter Olympics that occurred in 1924 were called the "International Winter Sports Week." The games were such a success, that in 1925, the International Olympic Committee decided to create a separate Winter Olympic Games and retroactively designated the 1924 events as the first Winter Olympics.
		The 1928 games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, garnered international attention as Gillis Grafstrom won his third figure skating title and Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie, won her first of three.
	www.wintergamesarchive.com /History.aspx (646 words)

	kiat.net: Olympic Games Moscow 1980
		While chosen to host the 1980 Summer Games of the XXII Olympiad on October 23, 1974, the IOC was all too aware of the difficulties that such a choice may incur.
		The Olympic movement still fell prey to politics when the Games were held in Moscow, the first Eastern European city to host an Olympiad.
		The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that the Games should not be concerned with politics and looked down upon the United States' actions.
	kiat.net /olympics/history/22moscow.html (522 words)

	Goodwill Games
		The Goodwill Games and their partners at ORDA are organizing the Games.
		The Goodwill Games, founded by Time Warner Vice Chairman R.E. Turner in 1986 as a platform to promote international goodwill through world-class competition, have grown to become the premier international, invitational, multi-sport event where athletes come together to put their greatness to the test.
		The four previous Goodwill Games have alternated between the United States and Russia; however, future Games will be staged in countries around the world in both winter and summer formats.
	www.goodwillgames.com /html/2000_newsArt7.html (1025 words)

	Monday Night Football - MNF History: 1980
		In perhaps the most memorable moment of the 1980 season, on Dec. 8 in Miami, Howard Cosell showed the reach of the program during his announcement of John Lennon's death.
		The final Monday Night game of the regular season was important on a number of levels.
		It was also the highest-rated game of the season (25.3, 40 percent share) and second-highest rated MNF game to date (it's now tied for fourth).
	espn.go.com /abcsports/mnf/s/1980.html (173 words)

	kiat.net: Winter Olympic Games Lake Placid 1980
		As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets.
		The joy of their win spread throughout America, and made for one of the most lively and memorable Games.
		Coming into the Games he was the four-time world sprint champion and three-time world overall champion.
	www.kiat.net /olympics/history/winter/w13lakeplacid.html (336 words)

	thirty six classic games in one cabinet
		Game Photos The latest is the 36 in 1 and 39 in 1 game and I am told that the 150 in 1 is coming around the corner and I will let you classic gamers know when it comes out.
		These games disappeared shortly after their arrival because players wanted the latest and greatest and refussed to play many of these games after they got older, even though the game play was exceptional and hard to master.
		These games really disappeared when the arcades started falling apart when the home entertainment businness and home comuputers ramped up their sales and put a nintendo system in just about every house in America.
	www.spyhunter007.com /thirty_six_classic_games_in_one_cabinet.htm (1107 words)

	1980's Entertainment
		While a significant number of early 80s games were simple clones of existing arcade titles, the low entry costs of the personal computer allowed for many bold, unique games, a legacy that continues to this day.
		Pac-Man(1980) was the first game to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in his own right.
		In 1984, the computer gaming market took over from the console market following the crash of that year; computers offered equal gaming ability and since their simple design allowed games to take complete command of the hardware after power-on, they were nearly as simple to start playing with as consoles.
	iweb.tntech.edu /rclougherty/decade_1980/eighties/games.html (576 words)

	Evolution of German Games
		But the American games market never took any notice, possibly because the games were too light for the "gamers" market, which at the time was confined to war gamers and role players, and too poorly distributed to catch the attention of family gamers.
		While game conventions had been around for years, the invitation-only Gathering, which now draws in excess of 200 people, was the first one where German games dominated.
		There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it.
	www.thegamesjournal.com /articles/GermanHistory2.shtml (6242 words)

	Welcome to rediff.com : Sports - Athens 2004 History
		Cuban heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson, acclaimed as a fighter with the potential to challenge Muhammad Ali if he were tempted to leave the amateur arena, became the first boxer to win three titles in a row in the same division.
		At the end of the Games the future of the Olympic movement was shrouded in doubt with the financial chaos of the Montreal Games now succeeded by the political impasse between the two superpowers.
		The 1980 Olympic Games** at Moscow was boycotted by the non-communist countries led by the United States, when the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
	www.rediff.com /sports/ath041980.htm (526 words)

	USA Basketball: Womens Olympic History -- 1980
		In protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, the United States, along with Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, China and Argentina did not participate in the 1980 Olympic Games that were hosted by the USSR and held in Moscow.
		Trials for the 1980 Olympic Team were held March 24-28 in Colorado Springs in two stages.
		Bettering their opponents by an average victory margin of 17.7 points a game, the USA's lone setback was to South Korea in the semi-final group play by a single point 89-88.
	www.usabasketball.com /history/woly_1980.html (624 words)

	The Cold War Museum - 1980 Olimpic Games
		The 1980 Olympic Games were most notable for the largest boycott of an Olympics in history.
		Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the United States and 61 other countries decided to boycott the Olympics (France, Italy, and Sweden did not join the boycott).
		The British Government boycotted the games, however, the athletes went against the wishes of the then 'Thatcher' government and went in their own right without government blessing.
	www.coldwar.org /articles/80s/olympic_games.asp (81 words)

	Moscow Olympic Games 1980 \| Moscow Life
		The 1980 Moscow Olympics are perhaps most famous for the US-led boycott that saw only 80 out of 147 nations compete, the lowest number since the 1956 Melbourne Games.
		The games turned out to be a tremendous showcase for the Soviet athletes who, with the help of their home soil and partisan crowd, raked in a staggering 195 medals, 80 of which glittered gold.
		Worthy of note is that Merlene Ottey, the great Jamaican and latterly Slovenian sprinter (Ottey now lives in Ljubljana), won the first medal of her Olympic career at the Moscow 1980 Games - a bronze in the 200m.
	www.moscow-life.com /moscow/olympic-games (374 words)

	Classic '80s Games : Play Now! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Miyamoto did the entire game himself (even the music), the only help he got was with the name.
		The sound effects are pretty much what you'd expect for a game from the early 1980s - that is, awful by todays standards - gameplay and graphics are simple - but it remains a classic and is fun to play every once in a while.
		These games are available completely free, and you are welcome to download and play offline or use them on your website.
	www.80smusiclyrics.com /games (1479 words)

	Neighborhood Values Toys & Games: Trivial Pursuit 1980's Master Game
		Game is 100% complete and in like new condition.
		It was from my personal collection of games and has only been played once that I remember.
		All Games are complete and if necessary have been repaired or completed to restore the game to as close to original condition as possible.
	www.neighborhoodvalues.com /nv/Toys&Games/T&G2/306atg.htm (164 words)

	Goodwill Games
		The seven sports to be contested at the Winter Games are: bobsled, figure skating, luge, skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding, and short track speedskating.
		ORDA was established in 1981 under legislation enacted by the State of New York to operate, maintain and promote the 1980 Winter Olympic facilities in the Lake Placid region, host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
		The Goodwill Games began in 1986, in response to the Cold War boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Summer Games.
	www.goodwillgames.com /2000/2000_newsArt1.html (992 words)

	A Tribute To The 1980 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies
		The 1980 edition of the Phillies may not have been the best team, talent-wise, in Phillies history.
		But the 1980 Phillies won, with grit and determination, what no other Phillies team has yet to do: The right to call themselves WORLD CHAMPIONS.
		Two of the articles come from the August 26, 1980 Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, stemming from a brawl between the Phils and Dodgers.
	www.geocities.com /1980phillies (778 words)

	Bibi's box: 1980 games
		The arcade games work with an emulator and they require Java.
		Play Donkeykong Junior, Space Invaders, Ms Pacman, Elevator Action and many other video games from the 80's without spend any coin.
		I verified that I'm still playing those games as good as before, that's why Tetris still my favourite.
	www.bibi.org /box/archives/2006/04/1980_games.html (183 words)

	Winter Olympics Memorable Moments: The 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
		By now everyone knows the story of the rag-tag group of college players, skilled but young and inexperienced, that shocked the world by beating the Russians and going on to win the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
		The 1980 team included right wing Dave Christian, whose father, Billy, and uncle, Roger, were linemates on the 1960 team.
		Herb Brooks, coach of the “miracle” 1980 team, had been the final player cut in 1960.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/winter-olympics-1980-us-hockey.html (363 words)

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		It was expected that the 1980 Paralympic Games would be held in the same city as the Olympic Games.
		The country was eventually denied participation in the Games due to opposition to its Apartheid policies.
		Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was the patron of the Games.
	www.paralympic.org /release/Main_Sections_Menu/Paralympic_Games/Past_Games/Arnhem_1980/index.html (604 words)

	Capital News 9 \| 24 Hour Local News \| Olympic Gold \| Silver Anniversary celebrations wind down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Just as the 1980 Olympic Games were ending 25 years ago, the Silver Anniversary celebrations are slowly wrapping up after a memorable evening.
		The Silver Anniversary celebrations of the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid are winding down.
		Before the tribute, Governor Pataki said, "The athletes who competed here in 1980, not just those who went home with a gold medal but everyone had what the olympic experience is supposed to be about.
	www.capitalnews9.com /content/special_coverage/olympic_gold/default.asp?ArID=119235 (213 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
		Moscow 1980: Gerd WESSIG of the German Democratic Republic jumps for joy after winning the men's high jump competition at the Games of the XXII Olympiad.
		Moscow, Pirita, July 1980: medal ceremony for the sailing Star class at the Games of the XXII Olympiad: Valentyn Mankin of the Soviet Union, 1st.
		Moscow, 2 August 1980, Games of the XXII Olympiad: Teofilo STEVENSON of Cuba (left) and Piotr ZAEV of the Soviet Union in action during the heavyweight boxing final bout.
	www.olympic.org /uk/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_uk.asp?entid=26&MediaType=PIC&page=2 (262 words)

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