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1968 in sports

Index 1968 in sports

1968 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. [1]

219 relations: Adelaide, Alpine skiing, American football, American Football League, Art Ross Trophy, Association football, Australia national cricket team, Australia national rugby league team, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Baseball, Basil D'Oliveira, Basketball, Batting average, Belmont Stakes, Bernard Ford, Bill Bowrey, Bill Masterton, Billie Jean King, Billy Casper, Bob Foster (boxer), Bob Goalby, Bob Skilton, Boston Celtics, Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, Boxing, Brownlow Medal, Bruce Fleisher, Calgary Stampeders, Canadian football, Canadians, Carlton Football Club, Celtic F.C., Cheltenham Gold Cup, Chicago Blackhawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Cricket, Crown Hill Cemetery, Cycling, Czechoslovakia, David R. Flores, Denny McLain, Detroit Tigers, Diane Towler, Dick Tiger, Dizzy Dean, Duluth, Minnesota, Dunfermline Athletic F.C., Eddie Charlton, ..., Eddy Merckx, Emmerich Danzer, England cricket team, Epsom Derby, Essendon Football Club, Everton F.C., FA Cup, Fernando Marroquin (swimmer), Field hockey, Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Figure skating, FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Forward Pass (horse), France national rugby union team, Gary Player, Golf, Goose Goslin, Grand National, Grand Slam (rugby union), Grand Slam (tennis), Green Bay Packers, Grenoble, Grey Cup, Hart Memorial Trophy, Heidi Game, Heisman Trophy, History of the Baltimore Colts, History of the Oakland Athletics, Horse racing, Ice hockey, Ice Hockey World Championships, India national cricket team, Indiana Hoosiers, Innsbruck, Irish Derby, Italy national football team, Jan Janssen, Javier Castillejo, Jean-Claude Killy, Jim Northrup (baseball), Joe Medwick, Johan Nyström (athlete), John Pulman, Judy Tegart-Dalton, Julius Boros, Kathy Whitworth, Kentucky Derby, Kiki Cuyler, Lee Trevino, Leroy Keyes, List of Australian Open men's singles champions, List of Australian Open women's singles champions, List of French Open men's singles champions, List of French Open women's singles champions, List of US Open men's singles champions, List of US Open women's singles champions, List of Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champions, List of Wimbledon ladies' singles champions, Los Angeles Lakers, LPGA, Ludmila Belousova, Major League Baseball, Manchester City F.C., Margaret Court, Mark Cooper (footballer, born 1968), Marylebone Cricket Club, Melbourne Cup, Memorial Drive Park, Mexico, Mexico City, Michael Bonallack, Mickey Lolich, Montreal Canadiens, Motorsport, Multi-sport event, Nancy Greene Raine, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, National Football League, National Hockey League, NBA Finals, NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, New York Jets, O. J. Simpson, Oakland Athletics, Oakland Raiders, Oleg Protopopov, Olga Markova (athlete), Ottawa Rough Riders, Peggy Fleming, PGA Tour, Preakness Stakes, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Queen's Golden Gaels, Queen's Plate, Red Alligator, Ribero, Roberto De Vicenzo, Rod Laver, Ronnie Duman, Rugby league, Rugby union, Sandra Post, Sir Ivor, Six Nations Championship, Snooker, South Sydney Rabbitohs, St Leger Stakes, St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Cardinals, Stage Door Johnny, Stan Mikita, Stanley Cup, Stolen base, Super Bowl II, Susie Berning, Swimming (sport), Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Sydney Swans, Ted Hendricks, Ted Kwalick, Tennis, Terry Hanratty, The Amateur Championship, The Ashes, The Oval, Titleholders Championship, Tony Roche, Touchdown, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, United States Amateur Championship (golf), University of Denver, University of North Dakota, USC Trojans, Vaguely Noble, Vince Lombardi, Vittorio Adorni, Vlade Divac, West Bromwich Albion F.C., Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, Women's PGA Championship, Women's Western Open, World Series, World Snooker Championship, Yugoslavia national football team, 1967–68 Northern Rugby Football League season, 1968 Davis Cup, 1968 Giro d'Italia, 1968 LPGA Championship, 1968 Masters Tournament, 1968 NBA Finals, 1968 New Zealand rugby league season, 1968 NSWRFL season, 1968 Open Championship, 1968 PGA Championship, 1968 Rose Bowl, 1968 Rugby League World Cup, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1968 Tour de France, 1968 U.S. Open (golf), 1968 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship, 1968 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Universiade, 1968 World Figure Skating Championships, 1968 World Series, 1968–69 Northern Rugby Football League season, 2000 Guineas Stakes, 4th Vanier Cup. Expand index (169 more) »

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping) which use skis with free-heel bindings.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Football League

The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1969, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL).

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Art Ross Trophy

The Art Ross Trophy is awarded to the National Hockey League (NHL) player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australia national rugby league team

The Australian national rugby league team (or the Kangaroos) have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the 'Northern Union game' in Australia in 1908.

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basil D'Oliveira

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011) was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in cricket, baseball, and softball that measures the performance of batsmen in cricket and batters in baseball and softball.

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Belmont Stakes

The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

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Bernard Ford

Bernard Ford, MBE, (born in Birmingham) is an English former ice dancer.

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Bill Bowrey

William "Bill" Bowrey (born 25 December 1943) is a former Australian male tennis player.

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Bill Masterton

William John Masterton (August 13, 1938 – January 15, 1968) was a Canadian–American professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars in 1967–68.

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Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player.

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Billy Casper

William Earl Casper, Jr. (June 24, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American professional golfer.

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Bob Foster (boxer)

Robert Lloyd "Bob" Foster (December 15, 1938 – November 21, 2015) was an American professional boxer who fought as a light heavyweight and heavyweight.

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Bob Goalby

Robert George Goalby (born March 14, 1929) is a former American professional golfer on the PGA Tour, who won the Masters Tournament in 1968, his lone major championship among 11 Tour wins achieved between 1958 and 1971.

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Bob Skilton

Robert John "Bob" Skilton (born 8 November 1938) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas

Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas (Botafogo Football and Rowing), also known as Botafogo and familiarly as A Estrela Solitária (The Lone Star), is a Brazilian sports club based in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Brownlow Medal

The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game.

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Bruce Fleisher

Bruce Lee Fleisher (born October 16, 1948) is an American professional golfer.

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Calgary Stampeders

The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premiership.

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Cheltenham Gold Cup

| The Cheltenham Gold Cup is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race run on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse in England, over a distance of 3 miles 2½ furlongs (5,331 m), and during its running there are 22 fences to be jumped.

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Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Crown Hill Cemetery

Crown Hill Cemetery is located at 700 West Thirty-Eighth Street in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.

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Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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David R. Flores

David Romero Flores (born February 5, 1968) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Denny McLain

Dennis Dale McLain (born March 29, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Diane Towler

Diane Towler MBE married Green, (born 16 December 1946) is an English former ice dancer and currently a figure skating coach.

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Dick Tiger

Dick Tiger (born Richard Ihetu; August 14, 1929 – December 14, 1971) was a professional boxer who held the World Middleweight and World Light Heavyweight Championships.

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Dizzy Dean

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974), also known as Jerome Herman Dean, was an American professional baseball player.

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Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a major port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Saint Louis County.

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Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline.

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Eddie Charlton

Edward Francis "Eddie" Charlton, (31 October 1929 – 8 November 2004) was an Australian professional snooker and English billiards player.

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Eddy Merckx

Édouard Louis Joseph, baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is widely seen as the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling.

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Emmerich Danzer

Emmerich Danzer (born 15 March 1944) is an Austrian former figure skater.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, officially the Investec Derby, popularly known as the Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

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Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club is a football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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FA Cup

The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football.

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Fernando Marroquin (swimmer)

Fernando Marroquin (born 19 April 1968) is a Guatemalan former swimmer who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Field hockey at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Final results for the Hockey competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics: Only a men's competition was held.

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Figure skating

Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice.

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FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA (Bob Beattie).

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Forward Pass (horse)

Forward Pass (March 28, 1965 – December 1, 1980) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who is the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification.

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France national rugby union team

The France national rugby union team competes annually against England, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales in the Six Nations Championship.

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Gary Player

Gary Player DMS, OIG (born 1 November 1935) is a South African professional golfer.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Goose Goslin

Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin (October 16, 1900 – May 15, 1971) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball known for his powerful left-handed swing and dependable clutch hitting.

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Grand National

The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England.

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Grand Slam (rugby union)

In rugby union, a Grand Slam (Irish: Caithréim Mhór. Welsh: Y Gamp Lawn. French: Grand Chelem) occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship (or its Five Nations predecessor) manages to beat all the others during one year's competition.

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Grand Slam (tennis)

The Grand Slam tournaments, also called majors, are the four most important annual tennis events.

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Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère.

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Grey Cup

The Grey Cup (Coupe Grey) is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football.

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Hart Memorial Trophy

The Hart Memorial Trophy, originally known as the Hart Trophy, is awarded annually to the "player judged most valuable to his team" in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Heidi Game

The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl was an American Football League (AFL) game played on November 17, 1968, between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets.

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Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or The Heisman), is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity.

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History of the Baltimore Colts

The professional American football franchise currently known as the Indianapolis Colts was originally based in Baltimore, Maryland as the Baltimore Colts from 1953 to 1984.

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History of the Oakland Athletics

The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun as a charter member franchise in the new American League in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 for 14 seasons and then to its current home on the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, California, in 1968.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Ice Hockey World Championships

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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Indiana Hoosiers

The Indiana Hoosiers are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of Indiana University Bloomington, named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Indiana.

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Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the capital city of Tyrol in western Austria and the fifth-largest city in Austria.

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Irish Derby

| The Irish Derby (Irish: Dearbaí na hÉireann) is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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Italy national football team

The Italy national football team (Nazionale di calcio dell'Italia) represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), the governing body for football in Italy.

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Jan Janssen

Johannes Adrianus "Jan" Janssen (born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist (1962–1972).

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Javier Castillejo

Francisco Javier Castillejo Rodríguez (born 22 March 1968), commonly known as Javier Castillejo, is a Spanish former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2009.

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Jean-Claude Killy

Jean-Claude Killy (born 30 August 1943) also known as Gilette is a former French World Cup alpine ski racer.

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Jim Northrup (baseball)

James Thomas Northrup (November 24, 1939 – June 8, 2011), nicknamed the "Silver Fox" due to his prematurely graying hair, was a Major League Baseball outfielder and left-handed batter who played for the Detroit Tigers (1964–74), Montreal Expos (1974) and Baltimore Orioles (1974–75).

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Joe Medwick

Joseph Michael Medwick (November 24, 1911 – March 21, 1975), nicknamed "Ducky", was an American Major League Baseball player.

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Johan Nyström (athlete)

Johan Ferdinand Nyström (April 16, 1874 – September 30, 1968) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

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John Pulman

Herbert John Pulman (12 December 1923 – 25 December 1998) was an English professional snooker player who dominated the game throughout the 1960s.

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Judy Tegart-Dalton

Judy Tegart Dalton (née Tegart; born 12 December 1937) is a retired professional tennis player from Australia who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles.

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Julius Boros

Julius Nicholas Boros (March 3, 1920 – May 28, 1994) was an American professional golfer noted for his effortless-looking swing and strong record on difficult golf courses, particularly at the U.S. Open.

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Kathy Whitworth

Kathrynne Ann Whitworth (born September 27, 1939) is an American professional golfer.

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Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby, is a horse race that is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival.

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Kiki Cuyler

Hazen Shirley Cuyler (August 30, 1898 – February 11, 1950) was a Major League Baseball right fielder from 1921 until 1938 who later was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Lee Trevino

Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is a retired American professional golfer who is regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history and the greatest Hispanic golfer of all time.

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Leroy Keyes

Marvin Leroy Keyes (born February 18, 1947) is a former American football running back and safety who played five seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.

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List of Australian Open men's singles champions

The Australian Open is an annual tennis tournament created in 1905 and played on outdoor hardcourts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.

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List of Australian Open women's singles champions

The Australian Open is an annual tennis tournament created in 1905 and played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.

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List of French Open men's singles champions

The French Open is an annual tennis tournament held over two weeks in May and June.

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List of French Open women's singles champions

The French Open, known originally as the Internationaux de France, is an annual tennis tournament created in 1891 and played on outdoor red clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France.

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List of US Open men's singles champions

The US Open men's singles championship is an annual tennis tournament that is part of the US Open and was established in 1881.

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List of US Open women's singles champions

The US Open women's singles championship is an annual tennis event that is being held since 1887 as part of the US Open tournament.

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List of Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champions

The Championships, Wimbledon is an annual British tennis tournament created in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom.

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List of Wimbledon ladies' singles champions

The Championships, Wimbledon is an annual tennis tournament first contested in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.

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LPGA

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female professional golfers.

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Ludmila Belousova

Ludmila Yevgenyevna Belousova (Людмила Евгеньевна Белоусова; 22 November 1935 – 26 September 2017) was a Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a football club in Manchester, England.

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Margaret Court

Margaret Court (née Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is a retired Australian tennis player and former world No. 1.

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Mark Cooper (footballer, born 1968)

Mark Nicholas Cooper (born 18 December 1968) is an English former association football player and manager.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious annual Thoroughbred horse race.

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Memorial Drive Park

Memorial Drive Park, more generally referred to as "Memorial Drive", is a tennis venue, located adjacent to the Adelaide Oval, in the park lands surrounding the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Michael Bonallack

Sir Michael Francis Bonallack, OBE (born 31 December 1934) is an English amateur golfer who was one of the leading administrators in world golf in the late 20th century.

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Mickey Lolich

Michael Stephen Lolich (born September 12, 1940) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling, Canadiens, is always used.

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Motorsport

Motorsport or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorised vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition.

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Multi-sport event

A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.

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Nancy Greene Raine

Nancy Catherine Greene Raine (born May 11, 1943) is a former Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century.

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located in Cooperstown, New York, and operated by private interests.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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NBA Finals

The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also informally known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.

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NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship

The NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship refers to one of two championships in men's ice hockey contested by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since 1971 to determine the top team in the NCAA Division I and Division III.

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New York Jets

The New York Jets are a professional American football team located in the New York metropolitan area.

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O. J. Simpson

Orenthal James "O.

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Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics, often referred to as the A's, are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

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Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football franchise based in Oakland, California.

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Oleg Protopopov

Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov (Оле́г Алексе́евич Протопо́пов; born 16 July 1932) is a former Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union.

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Olga Markova (athlete)

Olga Markova (Ольга Маркова; born August 6, 1968) is a retired long-distance runner from Russia, who set the world's best year performance in 1992, when she won the Boston Marathon, clocking 2:23:43.

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Ottawa Rough Riders

The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876.

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Peggy Fleming

Peggy Gale Fleming (born July 27, 1948) is an American former figure skater.

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PGA Tour

The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of the main professional golf tours played primarily by men in the United States and North America.

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Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat thoroughbred horse race held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

| The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.

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Queen's Golden Gaels

The Queen's Gaels (also: Queen's Golden Gaels) are the athletic teams that represent Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Queen's Plate

The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race, having been founded in 1860.

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Red Alligator

Red Alligator was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Grand National in 1968.

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Ribero

Ribero (foaled 1965 in Kentucky) was an American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.

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Roberto De Vicenzo

Roberto De Vicenzo (14 April 1923 – 1 June 2017) was a professional golfer from Argentina.

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Rod Laver

Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the sport.

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Ronnie Duman

Ronald B. Duman (February 12, 1929 – June 9, 1968), was an American racecar driver who competed in the USAC Championship Car series and the Indianapolis 500.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sandra Post

Sandra Post, CM (born June 4, 1948) is a retired professional golfer, the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour.

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Sir Ivor

Sir Ivor (May 5, 1965 – November 10, 1995) was an American-bred Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, who competed from a base in Ireland.

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Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship (recently known as the NatWest 6 Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales.

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Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.

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South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian rugby league team based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney, New South Wales.

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St Leger Stakes

| The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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St. Louis Blues

The St.

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St. Louis Cardinals

The St.

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Stage Door Johnny

Stage Door Johnny (May 22, 1965 – November 21, 1996) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his win in the third leg of the 1968 U.S. Triple Crown series, the Belmont Stakes.

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Stan Mikita

Stanislav "Stan" Mikita (born Stanislav Gvoth; May 20, 1940), is a Slovak-born Canadian retired professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s.

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Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner.

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Stolen base

In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base to which he is not entitled and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner.

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Super Bowl II

The second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional football, known retrospectively as Super Bowl II, was played on Sunday, January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

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Susie Berning

Susie Maxwell Berning (born July 22, 1941) is a retired American professional golfer.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 29 events in swimming were contested.

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Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Ted Hendricks

Theodore Paul Hendricks (born November 1, 1947) is a former American football linebacker who played 15 seasons for the Baltimore Colts (1969–1973), the Green Bay Packers (1974) and the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders (1975–1983) in the National Football League (NFL).

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Ted Kwalick

Thaddeus John Kwalick (born April 15, 1947) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League and World Football League.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Terry Hanratty

Terrence Hugh Hanratty (born January 19, 1948) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League during the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Amateur Championship

The Amateur Championship (sometimes referred to as the British Amateur or British Amateur Championship outside the UK) is a golf tournament which has been held annually in the United Kingdom since 1885 except during the two World Wars, and in 1949 when Ireland hosted the championship.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Titleholders Championship

The Titleholders Championship was a women's golf tournament played from in 1937 to 1966 and again in 1972.

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Tony Roche

Anthony Dalton Roche, AO MBE (born 17 May 1945) is a former professional Australian tennis player, native of Tarcutta.

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Touchdown

A touchdown is a means of scoring in both American and Canadian football.

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Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, often shortened to Triple Crown, comprises three races for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses.

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UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race

The UCI Road World Championships, often referred to as the World Cycling Championships, is the annual world championship for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

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United States Amateur Championship (golf)

The United States Amateur Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Amateur, is the leading annual golf tournament in the United States for amateur golfers.

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University of Denver

The University of Denver (DU) is a research coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado.

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University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota (also known as UND or North Dakota) is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

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USC Trojans

The USC Trojans are the athletic teams that represent the University of Southern California (USC), located in Los Angeles, California.

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Vaguely Noble

Vaguely Noble (1965–1989) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in the United Kingdom and France.

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Vince Lombardi

Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football player, coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

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Vittorio Adorni

Vittorio Adorni (born San Lazzaro di Parma, Italy, 14 November 1937).

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Vlade Divac

Vlade Divac (Владе Дивац,; born February 3, 1968) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and retired player, currently serving as the vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Sacramento Kings.

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West Bromwich Albion F.C.

West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or simply WBA, is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands.

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Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks

The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks is the name used by the varsity sports teams of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Women's PGA Championship

The Women's PGA Championship is the second-longest running golf tournament in the history of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, surpassed only by the U.S. Women's Open.

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Women's Western Open

The Women's Western Open was an American professional golf tournament founded in 1930.

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World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team.

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World Snooker Championship

The World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.

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Yugoslavia national football team

The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941, until 1929 as Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1943–1992, until November 29, 1945 as Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, 29 November 1945–1963 as Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) in association football.

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1967–68 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1967–68 Rugby Football League season was the 73rd season of rugby league football.

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1968 Davis Cup

The 1968 Davis Cup was the 57th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis.

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1968 Giro d'Italia

The 1968 Giro d'Italia was the 51st running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races.

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1968 LPGA Championship

The 1968 LPGA Championship was the fourteenth LPGA Championship, held June 20–24 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.

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1968 Masters Tournament

The 1968 Masters Tournament was the 32nd Masters Tournament, held April 11–14 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

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1968 NBA Finals

The 1968 NBA World Championship Series pitted the Boston Celtics from the East, against the Los Angeles Lakers from the West, for the sixth time in ten years.

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1968 New Zealand rugby league season

The 1968 New Zealand rugby league season was the 61st season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.

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1968 NSWRFL season

The 1968 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 61st season of professional rugby league football in Australia.

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1968 Open Championship

The 1968 Open Championship was the 97th Open Championship, played 10–13 July at Carnoustie Golf Links in Angus, Scotland.

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1968 PGA Championship

The 1968 PGA Championship was the 50th PGA Championship played July 18–21 at Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas.

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1968 Rose Bowl

The 1968 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1968.

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1968 Rugby League World Cup

The 1968 Rugby League World Cup tournament was the fourth staging of the Rugby League World Cup and was held in Australia and New Zealand during May and June in 1968.

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1968 Summer Olympics

The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, in October 1968.

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1968 Tour de France

The 1968 Tour de France was the 55th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.

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1968 U.S. Open (golf)

The 1968 U.S. Open was the 68th U.S. Open, held June 13–16 at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York.

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1968 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship

The 1968 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship was the 23rd U.S. Women's Open, held July 4–7 at Moselem Springs Golf Club in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, northeast of Reading.

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1968 Winter Olympics

The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1968 in Grenoble, France, and opened on 6 February.

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1968 Winter Universiade

The 1968 Winter Universiade, the V Winter Universiade, took place in Innsbruck, Austria.

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1968 World Figure Skating Championships

The 1968 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland from February 27 to March 3.

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1968 World Series

The 1968 World Series featured the American League champion Detroit Tigers against the National League champion (and defending World Series champion) St. Louis Cardinals, with the Tigers winning in seven games for their first championship since 1945, and the third in their history.

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1968–69 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1968–69 Rugby Football League season was the 74th season of rugby league football.

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2000 Guineas Stakes

| The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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4th Vanier Cup

The 4th Vanier Cup was played on November 22, 1968, at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, and decided the CIAU football champion for the 1968 season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_sports

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