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Zimbabwe Women’s Hockey Team: Happy to Be Here
One of the stranger stories that resulted from the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was that of the Zimbabwe women’s field hockey team, which won a gold medal despite being assembled on extremely short notice. Before 1980, Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, a country bordering South Africa and, like South Africa, ruled by a white minority. Banned from Olympic participation, Rhodesia had not fielded an Olympic team since the 1964 Games in Tokyo. However, beginning on April 18, 1980, newly named Zimbabwe, under a new constitution, achieved majority rule and thus redeemed itself in the eyes of the ...(100 of 263 words)