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Once banned, women's soccer thriving at Olympics
Manchester :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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England (AP) — In 1921, England's Football Association banned women from playing soccer on Football League grounds because the game was deemed "quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged." The ban stood for 50
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Once banned, women's football thriving at Olympics
Coventry :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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In 1921, England's Football Association banned women from playing on Football League grounds because the game was deemed "quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged."...It was lifted the same year of the first women's FA Cup final,
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Brazil says don't expect World Cup perfection
São Paulo :: Brazil | 10 months ago
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Brazil will not be the finished article when it hosts the 2014 World Cup but the vast Latin American country will cope with hundreds of thousands of visitors to the tournament, its sports minister said on Tuesday. In London for the Olympics, minister
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An Olympics dominated by Twitter and scandal
London :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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The Five-Rings Drifter drifts about the Olympics, seeking, snooping, soaking. . . He drifts into a Monday press conference with three U.S. track stars...Sanya Richards-Ross, favored to win the 400 meters, is explaining a mini-protest among some
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Police lose keys to Olympic stadium
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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The locks at London's Olympic football final venue Wembley Stadium have had to be changed, after police responsible for security at the world-famous sports arena lost their keys. A Metropolitan Police spokesman told CNN on Monday that officers at the
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Brazilian Women Go One Step Further Than Pele
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Brazil's elite women players will achieve something Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, never managed in his career when they play at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday. One of Pele's great regrets is that every time he had been due to play under
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'Ridiculous' Wembley queues after problems with tills
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Spectators attending Olympic football games at Wembley Stadium complained of ridiculous queues for food and drink after some tills stopped working. Fans hoping to buy snacks as they watched Great Britain's men take on United Arab Emirates last night
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Praise for first GB medal winners
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Residents of the home towns of Team GB's first London 2012 medallists have hailed their wins as a "massive achievement" and "an inspiration". Otley cyclist Lizzie Armitstead won silver and Mansfield swimmer Rebecca Adlington bronze on Sunday.
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British women swap World Cup dreams for Olympics
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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Like their male counterparts, British female soccer players grew up dreaming of World Cups, not Olympics golds...Until last week, no British female team had ever competed at the games. The last time the men appeared was in 1960. "Throughout all my
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London withdraws 500,000 Olympic football tickets
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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The organisers of the London Olympics conceded defeat Wednesday in selling all the tickets for the football tournament as they revealed plans to slash the capacity of some stadiums, including the Millenium Stadium. The organisers of the London
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