Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet Union have launched a massive invasion of the small, nonaligned country of Afghanistan." Later, at a ceremony in which he gave 20 scientists the National Medal of Science, he lashed out at the Soviet Union for its lack of freedom. Declared Carter: "Even with its efforts to identify scientific talent early and to develop it, [the U.S.S.R.'s] repressive political system still stunts scientific progress...
Dwight Stones, 26, a high jumper from Long Beach, Calif., who won bronze medals at both the 1972 and 1976 Games, thinks the U.S. should take more immediate action. Said he: "Why not bar the Soviet Union from coming here for the Winter Games?" Said Bill Toomey, 41, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1968 Games: "We would be naive to place track and field ahead of world events...
Name the Radcliffe student who won the 1956 women's figure-skating gold medal...
...Canada protest Britain's 1936 hockey gold medal...
Other than Canada, only one other country has won the hockey gold medal more than once. Name that country...