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Sporting Witness: The Golden Girls of Zimbabwe

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The Golden Girls of Zimbabwe

10/11/2022 GMT

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How the women's hockey team won an unexpected first Olympic gold in 1980

How Zimbabwe's women's field hockey team won an unexpected first Olympic gold for their country in 1980.

In 1980, the newly independent nation of Zimbabwe was invited to enter a women's hockey team at the Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite their unfamiliarity with the pitches - and each other - the players won an unexpected gold medal and were nicknamed the Golden Girls. In 2016, Claire Bowes talked to Liz Chase, one of the victorious Zimbabweans.

(Photo: Zimbabwe's women's hockey team display their gold medals. Credit: Patricia McKillop via Alamy)

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