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Football at the Summer Olympics. Association football [ note 1] has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA World Cup tournament). Women's football was added to the official program at the Atlanta 1996 Games. [ 1][ 2]
2020 Men's Olympic Football Tournament. The men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 22 July to 7 August 2021. Originally, it was to be held from 23 July to 8 August 2020, but the Summer Olympics were postponed to the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the official name of the games remains the 2020 ...
v. t. e. The football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 21 July to 7 August 2021 in Japan. [ 1] In addition to the Olympic host city of Tokyo, matches were also played in Kashima, Saitama, Sapporo, Rifu and Yokohama. [ 2]
The 2024 Olympics in Paris are just around the corner and BBC Sport NI is ready to bring you the best of the action. There are 38 athletes from Northern Ireland heading to France to compete in the ...
The 2020 Summer Olympic football gold medal match was a football match to determine the gold medal winners of men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.The match was the 25th final of the men's football tournament at the Olympics, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA to decide the Olympic champions.
e. The modern Olympic Games ( OG; or Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques, JO) [ a][ 1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports ...
IOC. JOC. TOCOG. v. t. e. The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports. [ 2]
He won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 1982, was appointed an MBE in the 1983 New Year Honours [17] and promoted to the CBE in the 2000 New Year Honours. [ 18 ] At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics , Thompson, who had just won his second Olympic decathlon gold medal, wore a T-shirt that read "IS THE WORLD'S 2ND GREATEST ATHLETE GAY?".