Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dazed and daffy week in boxing. Typical of the confusion to come was the fate of Canadian featherweight Jamie Pagendam. On Sunday he was declared a loser on a technical knockout. On Monday he won a reversal because the Ivory Coast referee had miscounted knockdowns that should have disqualified his Mongolian adversary. On Tuesday the International Amateur Boxing Association ruled him unfit to fight further because he had taken too many blows to the head...
...little nicer, a little faster, Lewis finished the first of his four encores, the 100-meter dash, in his best time ever -- but second to the Canadian who dusts the world. "I've been working twelve years for this moment," said Johnson, the fastest human by a considerable whoosh. "I sailed right through." The Games found an early kind of king in the Jamaican-born sprinter who churns insides in every country. And he was not the only excitement...
...your government, Ben. We are efficient. We wasted no time declaring you banned from the Canadian national team. Your airplane touched down in Toronto two days ago, and we told you that you are no longer wanted...
...acknowledged a Canadian contention of sabotage, that the substance might have been administered to Johnson after the race...
Johnson, the third athlete in this Olympics to be stripped of a gold medal, was flying home to Toronto, leaving Olympic officials shaken and Canadian coaches stunned...