Editing 1980s (section)

===Sports===
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* The [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in Moscow were [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott|boycotted]] by 65 countries led by the United States in protest of the 1979 [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]].
* A young United States team famously defeated the heavily favored Soviet team in the [[Miracle on Ice]] game, and went on to win the gold medal for ice hockey, at the [[1980 Winter Olympics]].
* The [[New York Islanders]] won the [[Stanley Cup]] for 4 straight years in [[1980 Stanley Cup Finals|1980]], [[1981 Stanley Cup Finals|1981]], [[1982 Stanley Cup Finals|1982]], and [[1983 Stanley Cup Finals|1983]]. The Islanders also became the second [[National Hockey League|NHL]] expansion team after the [[Philadelphia Flyers]] to win the Cup. Since their last Cup win in 1983, they were the third NHL team to win 4 consecutive championships and hold the NHL record for most consecutive playoff series' wins at 19 (stretching from the [[1980 Stanley Cup playoffs|1980 Playoffs]] to the [[1984 Stanley Cup Finals|1984 Playoffs]]).
* The [[Edmonton Eskimos]] of the [[Canadian Football League]] won the first three [[Grey Cup]] championships of the decade (having won the last two of the previous decade), adding one more in 1987.
* India won the [[1983 Cricket World Cup]]. Australia won [[1987 Cricket World Cup]].
* The [[1984 Winter Olympics]] were held in [[Sarajevo]], [[Yugoslavia]] (now Sarajevo, [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]). Yugoslavia became the second communist country to host the [[Olympic Games]], but unlike the Soviet Union in 1980, there were no boycotts of the Games by Western countries.
* The [[1984 Summer Olympics]] in Los Angeles were boycotted by the Soviet Union and most of the Communist world (China, Romania, and Yugoslavia participated in the games) in retaliation for the boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow.
* The [[Jamaica national bobsled team]] received major media attention and stunned the world at the [[1988 Winter Olympics]] in [[Calgary|Calgary, Alberta]], Canada for its unexpected good performance. The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the [[Disney]] movie ''[[Cool Runnings]]'' five years later.
* The [[1988 Summer Olympics]] were held in [[Seoul]], South Korea. Attempts to include North Korea in the games were unsuccessful and it boycotted along with six other countries, but with 160 nations participating, it had the highest attendance of any Olympics to date.
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* [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] banned [[Group B]] [[rallying]] after a series of deaths and injuries took place in the 1986 season.
* Canadian hockey player [[Wayne Gretzky]]'s rise to fame in the NHL coincided with the [[Edmonton Oilers]]' first four Stanley Cup championships ([[1984 Stanley Cup Finals|1984]], [[1985 Stanley Cup Finals|1985]], [[1987 Stanley Cup Finals|1987]], and [[1988 Stanley Cup Finals|1988]]) and becoming the second NHL [[dynasty (sports)|dynasty]] team of the 1980s.
* On 9 August 1988, in what became the biggest trade in NHL history (also known as "The Trade Of The Century"), Wayne Gretzky was traded along with teammates [[Marty McSorley]] and [[Mike Krushelnyski]] from Edmonton to the [[Los Angeles Kings]] in exchange for [[Martin Gélinas]], [[Jimmy Carson]], three first round [[draft (sports)|draft]] picks, and US$15 million cash (approximately $18 million [[Canadian dollar|CAD]] in 1988).
* American basketball player [[Michael Jordan]] joined the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] during the mid-1980s, raising the sport's popularity. He started his [[professional sports|professional]] career alongside the likes of [[Hakeem Olajuwon]], [[Charles Barkley]], [[Alvin Robertson]], and [[John Stockton]] in what is considered one of the greatest drafts in the league's history, the [[1984 NBA draft]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0903/nba.best.draft.classes/content.1.html|title=1984 - NBA's Best Draft Classes - Photos - SI.com|date=May 28, 2011|access-date=27 September 2023|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112014425/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0903/nba.best.draft.classes/content.1.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/2015/news/hca/06/15/the-list-top-five-draft-classes/|title=The List: Top five draft classes in NBA history|website=NBA|author=Joe Boozell|access-date=2016-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621002834/http://www.nba.com/2015/news/hca/06/15/the-list-top-five-draft-classes|archive-date=2016-06-21|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/nba/photos/the-best-nba-draft-picks-ever|title=25 of the best NBA Draft picks ever|website=CBSSports.com|date=18 August 2015 |access-date=2016-06-15}}</ref>
* On 26 November 1986, [[Mike Tyson]] became the youngest boxing Heavyweight Champion in history at age 20.
* The [[1980s professional wrestling boom]] was in full effect.
* In 1985, the [[WWE|WWF]] presented the [[WrestleMania I]] at [[Madison Square Garden]] in New York City with an attendance of 19,121.
* In 1987, [[WrestleMania III]] had a record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until 2010. This also remained the WrestleMania attendance record until [[WrestleMania 32]] in 2016
* In 1988, the live broadcast of WWF's ''[[The Main Event I]]'' drew a 15.2 [[Nielsen rating]] and 33 million viewers, both records for American televised wrestling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Wrestlemania20/WrestleMania3.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629102306/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Wrestlemania20/WrestleMania3.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2012|title=Steamboat&nbsp;— Savage rule WrestleMania 3|last=Powell|first=John|publisher=SLAM! Wrestling|access-date=14 October 2007}}</ref>
* West Germany won the [[UEFA Euro 1980|1980 UEFA championship]].
* Italy won the [[1982 FIFA World Cup]] in Spain.
* France hosted and won the [[UEFA Euro 1984|1984 UEFA championship]].
* [[File:Maradona-Mundial 86 con la copa.JPG|thumb|[[Diego Maradona]] raising the [[FIFA World Cup Trophy|World Cup Trophy]] after [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] won the final in 1986]]Argentina won the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]] in Mexico. [[Diego Maradona]] produces the [[Goal of the Century]] and [[the hand of God]] goal.
* The Netherlands won the [[UEFA Euro 1988|1988 UEFA championship]].
* [[Hawthorn Football Club]] dominated Australian football, reaching seven successive VFL Grand Finals and winning the premiership in 1983, 1986, 1988, and 1989
* [[Liverpool F.C.]] were the most successful club side of the era, becoming English champions on six occasions (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988) and winning two European Cups (1981, 1984). They also won the FA Cup in 1986, completing the first double in their history, and four consecutive [[League Cup]] titles from 1981 to 1984.
* Other highly successful club sides of the 1980s include [[Juventus]] (7 major honours won), [[Real Madrid]] (ten major honours won), [[Bayern Munich]] (nine titles won) [[PSV Eindhoven]] (four times Dutch champions and European Cup winners in 1988), and [[Clube de Regatas do Flamengo|Flamengo]] (four times Brazilian champions, South American and International Cup winners in 1981).
* In the [[National Football League|NFL]], the [[San Francisco 49ers]] became the dynasty of the decade, winning four Super Bowls under the leadership of [[Joe Montana]]; the [[Chicago Bears]] won [[Super Bowl XX]] in January 1986, in which the team has been widely remembered for their [[1985 Chicago Bears season|defense]]; and the [[Washington Redskins]] also enjoyed success throughout the decade, winning two of their three Super Bowls under the leadership of head coach [[Joe Gibbs]].
* [[Magic Johnson]] and [[Larry Bird]] became the two most popular NBA players during the decade while even facing against each other in three [[NBA Finals]] ([[1984 NBA Finals|1984]], [[1985 NBA Finals|1985]], and [[1987 NBA Finals|1987]]) continuing the storied [[Celtics-Lakers rivalry]].
* [[Major League Baseball]] experienced parity and tense championship moments during the decade. The [[Philadelphia Phillies]] won their first World Series championship in [[1980 World Series|1980]], the [[Kansas City Royals]] won their first World Series championship in a dramatic manner in [[1985 World Series|1985]], the [[New York Mets]] won their second World Series championship in [[1986 World Series|1986]] in a dramatic manner, and the [[Minnesota Twins]] won their first World Series in [[1987 World Series|1987]]. The [[1988 World Series|1988]] and [[1989 World Series]] are remembered for [[Kirk Gibson's 1988 World Series home run|Kirk Gibson's home run]] and the [[Loma Prieta Earthquake]], respectively.
* [[Ultimate (sport)|Disc ultimate]] league play is introduced to Canada in 1980 by [[Ken Westerfield]] starting the first [[Ultimate Canada#History|disc ultimate league (TUC)]], in Toronto.

====Sportspeople====
* Athletes: [[Sergey Bubka]], [[Florence Griffith Joyner]], [[Stefka Kostadinova]], [[Carl Lewis]]
* Association footballers: [[Diego Maradona]], [[Michel Platini]], [[Paolo Rossi]], [[Hugo Sánchez]], [[Marco van Basten]], [[Zico (footballer)|Zico]]
* Baseballers: [[Wade Boggs]], [[George Brett]], [[Rickey Henderson]], [[Don Mattingly]], [[Kirby Puckett]], [[Cal Ripken Jr.]], [[Pete Rose]], [[Nolan Ryan]], [[Mike Schmidt]], [[Ozzie Smith]], [[Darryl Strawberry]], [[Fernando Valenzuela]]
* Basketballers: [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], [[Michael Cooper]], [[Julius Erving]], [[Nick Galis]], [[A.C. Green]], [[Moses Malone]], [[Kevin McHale (basketball)|Kevin McHale]], [[Dražen Petrović]], [[Oscar Schmidt]], [[Byron Scott]], [[Isiah Thomas]], [[Dominique Wilkins]], [[James Worthy]]
* Bowlers: [[Bong Coo]], [[Paeng Nepomuceno]]
* Boxers: [[Roberto Durán]], [[Marvelous Marvin Hagler]], [[Thomas Hearns]], [[Larry Holmes]], [[Sugar Ray Leonard]], [[Aaron Pryor]], [[Michael Spinks]]
* Chess players: [[Garry Kasparov]], [[Anatoly Karpov]]
* Cricketers: [[Wasim Akram]], [[Waqar Younis]]
* Cyclists: [[Greg LeMond]]
* Gymnasts: [[Vladimir Artemov]], [[Dmitry Bilozerchev]], [[Svetlana Boginskaya]], [[Alexander Dityatin]], [[Yuri Korolyov]], [[Li Ning]], [[Yelena Shushunova]], [[Daniela Silivaş]]
* Ice hockey players: [[Mario Lemieux]], [[Mark Messier]]
* NFL players: [[Eric Dickerson]], [[John Elway]], [[Dan Marino]], [[Walter Payton]], [[Jerry Rice]], [[Mike Singletary]], [[Lawrence Taylor]]
* Racing drivers: [[Derek Bell (racing driver)|Derek Bell]], [[Stefan Bellof]], [[Gerhard Berger]], [[Dale Earnhardt]], [[Richard Petty]], [[Juha Kankkunen]] [[Niki Lauda]], [[Nigel Mansell]], [[Didier Pironi]], [[Riccardo Patrese]], [[Nelson Piquet]], [[Alain Prost]], [[Carlos Reutemann]], [[Walter Röhrl]], [[Ayrton Senna]], [[Ari Vatanen]], [[Gilles Villeneuve]], [[Darrell Waltrip]], 
* Motorcyclists: [[Eddie Lawson]], [[Freddie Spencer]]
* Skaters: [[Katarina Witt]], [[Torvill and Dean]].
* Swimmers and divers: [[Matt Biondi]], [[Greg Louganis]], [[Kristin Otto]]
* Tennis players: [[Boris Becker]], [[Jimmy Connors]], [[Stefan Edberg]], [[Chris Evert]], [[Steffi Graf]], [[Ivan Lendl]], [[John McEnroe]], [[Martina Navratilova]], [[Yannick Noah]], [[Mats Wilander]]
* Volleyballers: [[Hugo Conte]], [[Renan Dal Zotto]], [[Karch Kiraly]], [[Lang Ping]], [[Sinjin Smith]], [[Randy Stoklos]], [[Steve Timmons]]
* Wrestlers: [[Hulk Hogan]]